9 Jul 2024

Zoë Kravitz and Channing Tatum’s Closet Picks

The director of Blink Twice is joined by the film’s star in sharing their love for John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands, praising Paris Is Burning as “the greatest documentary of all time,” and selecting favorites, from Harlan County USA and The Fisher King to Moonstruck and The Rose.

Filmed together, each with a page of their own: Zoë Kravitz and Channing Tatum

choices

13

12 single, 1 box set

single films

12

chosen on their own

box sets

1

one choice, many films

films reached

15

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.

253 A Woman Under the Influence 1974 334 Harlan County USA 1976 1018 Paris Is Burning 1990 43 Lord of the Flies 1963 133 The Vanishing 1988 2 Seven Samurai 1954 575 The Killing 1956 764 The Fisher King 1991 757 The Rose 1979 1056 Moonstruck 1987 925 Midnight Cowboy 1969 SET The Koker Trilogy 1180 Thelma & Louise 1991

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	A Woman Under the Influence	John Cassavetes	1974	6
2	Harlan County USA	Barbara Kopple	1976	6
3	Paris Is Burning	Jennie Livingston	1990	11
4	Lord of the Flies	Peter Brook	1963	1
5	The Vanishing	George Sluizer	1988	6
6	Seven Samurai	Akira Kurosawa	1954	10
7	The Killing	Stanley Kubrick	1956	5
8	The Fisher King	Terry Gilliam	1991	5
9	The Rose	Mark Rydell	1979	2
10	Moonstruck	Norman Jewison	1987	11
11	Midnight Cowboy	John Schlesinger	1969	8
12	The Koker Trilogy box set, 3 films			7
13	Thelma & Louise	Ridley Scott	1991	9

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1954 to 1991, box sets 1987 to 1994

The Koker Trilogy

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 15films run 28.6 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 132.1 minutes of film for each of its 13 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 13 choices had been taken by 6.69 visits each on average, counting a box set as one thing. One of them has been taken by nobody else. The least-picked was Lord of the Flies, taken by this visit alone.

This visit reached the work of Terry Gilliam, through The Fisher King and Terry Gilliam, through The Fisher King, who have been in this closet too. Not one of those reaches is returned.

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