3 Oct 2024
Isabelle Huppert’s Closet Picks
The legendary actor returns to Closet, where she shares her love for independent American gems such as Barbara Loden’s Wanda and Michael Roemer’s Nothing but a Man , talks about Roberto Rossellini’s work with Ingrid Bergman, and selects Italian cinema classics I Knew Her Well and Juliet of the Spirits .
Isabelle Huppert: 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 |  Wanda | Barbara Loden | 1970 | |
| 2 |  3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman box set, 3 films | |||
| 3 |  I Knew Her Well | Antonio Pietrangeli | 1965 | |
| 4 |  Juliet of the Spirits | Federico Fellini | 1965 | |
| 5 |  La cérémonie | Claude Chabrol | 1995 | |
| 6 |  2 or 3 Things I Know About Her | Jean-Luc Godard | 1967 | |
| 7 |  Eclipse Series 3: Late Ozu box set, 5 films | |||
| 8 |  Saint Omer | Alice Diop | 2022 | |
| 9 |  Nothing but a Man | Michael Roemer | 1964 |
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 15films run 28.8 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.
That is 192 minutes of film for each of its 9 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 9 choices had been taken by 5.11 visits each on average, counting a box set as one thing. Two of them have been taken by nobody else. The least-picked was Juliet of the Spirits, taken by this visit alone.