7 May 2024
Dylan Baker’s Closet Picks
The actor, who stars in Todd Solondz’s Happiness, shares his appreciation for the playwright behind the source material of George Cukor’s Holiday; praises It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World as one of the funniest films he has ever seen; and talks about the deep impression that Local Hero has left on him.
Dylan Baker: 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 |  Destry Rides Again | George Marshall | 1939 | |
| 2 |  Holiday | George Cukor | 1938 | |
| 3 |  Quadrophenia | Franc Roddam | 1979 | |
| 4 |  It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World | Stanley Kramer | 1963 | |
| 5 |  Christ Stopped at Eboli | Francesco Rosi | 1979 | |
| 6 |  Local Hero | Bill Forsyth | 1983 | |
| 7 |  The Ascent | Larisa Shepitko | 1977 | |
| 8 |  Ride with the Devil | Ang Lee | 1999 |
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 8films run 18 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.
That is 135.2 minutes of film for each of its 8 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 8 choices had been taken by 3.12 visits each on average, counting a box set as one thing. Two of them have been taken by nobody else. The least-picked was Ride with the Devil, taken by this visit alone.