16 Sept 2024
Jude Law’s Closet Picks
The actor talks about what Andrei Tarkovsky’s films have taught him about stillness in cinema, reflects on the various adaptations of The Talented Mr. Ripley, and shares his formative experience of seeing London on-screen in My Beautiful Launderette and Mona Lisa.
Jude Law: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest
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.
| Chose | Director | Year | Taken by | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Stalker | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1979 | |
| 2 |  Purple Noon | René Clément | 1960 | |
| 3 |  The Wages of Fear | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 1953 | |
| 4 |  Local Hero | Bill Forsyth | 1983 | |
| 5 |  Mona Lisa | Neil Jordan | 1986 | |
| 6 |  The Night of the Hunter | Charles Laughton | 1955 |
How far across film history it reaches
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 6films run 12.4 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.
That is 123.8 minutes of film for each of its 6 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 6 choices had been taken by 6 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 Mona Lisa, taken by 2 visits in total.