2 Oct 2024

Andrew Garfield’s Closet Picks

The actor praises films by directors he has worked with, talks about how Mike Leigh’s Naked and Ken Loach’s Kes helped define contemporary British cinema, and thanks his father for his love of Tampopo.

Andrew Garfield: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest

choices

10

every one a single film

single films

10

chosen on their own

box sets

0

none this visit

films reached

10

no set to open

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.

51 Brazil 1985 44 The Red Shoes 1948 122 Salesman 1969 289 Hoop Dreams 1994 307 Naked 1993 561 Kes 1970 627 The Game 1997 1235 Happiness 1998 1090 Original Cast Album: “Company” 1970 868 Tampopo 1985

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	Brazil	Terry Gilliam	1985	7
2	The Red Shoes	Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger	1948	16
3	Salesman	David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin	1969	4
4	Hoop Dreams	Steve James	1994	5
5	Naked	Mike Leigh	1993	14
6	Kes	Ken Loach	1970	7
7	The Game	David Fincher	1997	4
8	Happiness	Todd Solondz	1998	8
9	Original Cast Album: “Company”	D. A. Pennebaker	1970	5
10	Tampopo	Juzo Itami	1985	6

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1948 to 1998

a single film, at its year 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 10films run 20.3 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 121.9 minutes of film for each of its 10 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 10 choices had been taken by 7.6 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 Salesman, taken by 4 visits in total.

This visit reached the work of Mike Leigh, through Naked and Terry Gilliam, through Brazil, who have been in this closet too. Not one of those reaches is returned.

On Vimeo · On criterion.com