16 Apr 2024

Jeremy O. Harris’s Closet Picks

The award-winning playwright, actor, producer, and director shares his love for Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, celebrates how Bob Fosse captured dance on-screen like no one else, and talks about the artists who have shaped him, from Lena Dunham and the Dogme 95 directors to Pasolini and Fassbinder.

Jeremy O. Harris: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest

choices

11

10 single, 1 box set

single films

10

chosen on their own

box sets

1

one choice, many films

films reached

14

the same visit, box sets opened

Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com

This visit as a strip, a cell for each choice: paler the older the film, indigo for a box set, which is one cell however many films it holds. The order is the order Criterion's own page lists them in, which is probably but not provably the order they came off the shelf.

SET Melvin Van Peebles: Essential Films 1090 Original Cast Album: “Company” 1970 1108 The Celebration 1998 1013 Teorema 1968 17 Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom 1976 597 Tiny Furniture 2010 1055 Girlfriends 1978 724 All That Jazz 1979 198 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 1974 339 Yi Yi 2000 326 Metropolitan 1990

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	Melvin Van Peebles: Essential Films box set, 4 films			11
2	Original Cast Album: “Company”	D. A. Pennebaker	1970	5
3	The Celebration	Thomas Vinterberg	1998	4
4	Teorema	Pier Paolo Pasolini	1968	2
5	Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom	Pier Paolo Pasolini	1976	11
6	Tiny Furniture	Lena Dunham	2010	5
7	Girlfriends	Claudia Weill	1978	6
8	All That Jazz	Bob Fosse	1979	18
9	Ali: Fear Eats the Soul	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	1974	2
10	Yi Yi	Edward Yang	2000	12
11	Metropolitan	Whit Stillman	1990	2

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1968 to 2010, box sets 1967 to 1972

Melvin Van Peebles: Essential Films

a single film, at its year a box set, across the years of its films the collection, by decade

The axis is the same 1920 to 2030 on every visit page, so a haul that stayed inside one decade looks like one. A box set is drawn across the years of the films inside it, which is a range of release dates and not a claim about the set. Nothing here is in the order the choices were made: displayed position moves film year by a fifth of one percent of its variance, which is not a slope worth drawing.

How long this haul is

Its 14films run 23.8 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 129.9 minutes of film for each of its 11 choices, counting a box set as the one choice it was. Across the 375 visits with a complete total, the median is 136.4 minutes.

How unusual this haul was

Its 11 choices had been taken by 7.09 visits each on average, counting a box set as one thing. Every one of them has been taken by somebody else too. The least-picked was Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, taken by 2 visits in total.

This visit reached the work of Lena Dunham, through Tiny Furniture, who has been in this closet too. Not one of those reaches is returned.

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