17 Jul 2024

Greg Gonzalez’s Closet Picks

The singer of the band Cigarettes After Sex shares his love for La Bamba, talks about how the romance of Eric Rohmer inspires his music, and selects favorites, from The Worst Person in the World to The Tales of Hoffmann.

Greg Gonzalez: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest

choices

6

5 single, 1 box set

single films

5

chosen on their own

box sets

1

one choice, many films

films reached

9

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.

1193 La Bamba 1987 549 The Last Picture Show 1971 SET Eric Rohmer’s Tales of the Four Seasons 1132 The Worst Person in the World 2021 1227 Risky Business 1983 317 The Tales of Hoffmann 1951

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	La Bamba	Luis Valdez	1987	2
2	The Last Picture Show	Peter Bogdanovich	1971	4
3	Eric Rohmer’s Tales of the Four Seasons box set, 4 films			3
4	The Worst Person in the World	Joachim Trier	2021	8
5	Risky Business	Paul Brickman	1983	2
6	The Tales of Hoffmann	Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger	1951	1

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1951 to 2021, box sets 1990 to 1998

Eric Rohmer’s Tales of the Four Seasons

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 9films run 17.1 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 171.2 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 3.33 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 Tales of Hoffmann, taken by this visit alone.

This visit reached the work of Joachim Trier, through The Worst Person in the World, who has been in this closet too. Not one of those reaches is returned.

On Vimeo · On criterion.com