2 Jul 2024

Gina Gershon’s Closet Picks

The acclaimed actor shares her love for Donald Sutherland’s and Julie Christie’s performances in Don’t Look Now , praises Terry Gilliam’s vast imagination, and talks about getting energized by listening to the Godzilla score.

Gina Gershon: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest

choices

7

6 single, 1 box set

single films

6

chosen on their own

box sets

1

one choice, many films

films reached

21

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.

745 Don’t Look Now 1973 1220 Bound 1996 51 Brazil 1985 503 Lola Montès 1955 SET Godzilla: The Showa-Era Films, 1954–1975 11 The Seventh Seal 1957 475 The Friends of Eddie Coyle 1973

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	Don’t Look Now	Nicolas Roeg	1973	5
2	Bound	Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski	1996	1
3	Brazil	Terry Gilliam	1985	7
4	Lola Montès	Max Ophuls	1955	2
5	Godzilla: The Showa-Era Films, 1954–1975 box set, 15 films			8
6	The Seventh Seal	Ingmar Bergman	1957	2
7	The Friends of Eddie Coyle	Peter Yates	1973	4

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1955 to 1996, box sets 1954 to 1975

Godzilla: The Showa-Era Films, 1954–1975

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 21films run 32.9 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 282.1 minutes of film for each of its 7 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 7 choices had been taken by 4.14 visits each on average, counting a box set as one thing. One of them has been taken by nobody else. The least-picked was Bound, taken by this visit alone.

This visit reached the work of Terry Gilliam, through Brazil, who has been in this closet too. Not one of those reaches is returned.

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