14 Jun 2024

Carol Kane’s Closet Picks

The legendary actor talks about her lifelong love of Bette Davis, reminisces about working with John Cassavetes, and selects favorites by Hal Ashby, Gillian Armstrong, and Bill Forsyth.

Carol Kane: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest

choices

12

11 single, 1 box set

single films

11

chosen on their own

box sets

1

one choice, many films

films reached

17

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.

1003 All About Eve 1950 SET John Cassavetes: Five Films 994 Local Hero 1983 973 My Brilliant Career 1979 948 The Princess Bride 1987 947 Shampoo 1975 461 Hobson’s Choice 1954 277 My Own Private Idaho 1991 764 The Fisher King 1991 680 City Lights 1931 426 The Ice Storm 1997 157 The Royal Tenenbaums 2001

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	All About Eve	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	1950	10
2	John Cassavetes: Five Films box set, 6 films			30
3	Local Hero	Bill Forsyth	1983	6
4	My Brilliant Career	Gillian Armstrong	1979	2
5	The Princess Bride	Rob Reiner	1987	9
6	Shampoo	Hal Ashby	1975	12
7	Hobson’s Choice	David Lean	1954	4
8	My Own Private Idaho	Gus Van Sant	1991	9
9	The Fisher King	Terry Gilliam	1991	5
10	City Lights	Charles Chaplin	1931	10
11	The Ice Storm	Ang Lee	1997	5
12	The Royal Tenenbaums	Wes Anderson	2001	1

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1931 to 2001, box sets 1959 to 2000

John Cassavetes: Five 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 17films run 34.5 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 172.5 minutes of film for each of its 12 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 12 choices had been taken by 8.58 visits each on average, counting a box set as one thing. One of them has been taken by nobody else. The least-picked was The Royal Tenenbaums, taken by this visit alone.

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

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