12 Nov 2024

Pamela Anderson’s Closet Picks

The actor and star of The Last Showgirl talks about being profoundly inspired by Barbara Loden’s Wanda, shares her passion for the poetry of Abbas Kiarostami, and praises the style and craft of actors like Romy Schneider, Katharine Hepburn, and Jeanne Moreau.

Pamela Anderson: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest

choices

11

9 single, 2 box sets

single films

9

chosen on their own

box sets

2

one choice, many films

films reached

52

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.

1088 La piscine 1969 977 Blue Velvet 1986 960 La vérité 1960 408 Breathless 1960 219 La strada 1954 335 Elevator to the Gallows 1958 965 Wanda 1970 SET The Koker Trilogy 22 Summertime 1955 SET Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema 333 Fists in the Pocket 1965

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	La piscine	Jacques Deray	1969	6
2	Blue Velvet	David Lynch	1986	10
3	La vérité	Henri-Georges Clouzot	1960	3
4	Breathless	Jean-Luc Godard	1960	6
5	La strada	Federico Fellini	1954	16
6	Elevator to the Gallows	Louis Malle	1958	5
7	Wanda	Barbara Loden	1970	15
8	The Koker Trilogy box set, 3 films			7
9	Summertime	David Lean	1955	3
10	Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema box set, 40 films			13
11	Fists in the Pocket	Marco Bellocchio	1965	2

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1954 to 1986, box sets 1946 to 2003

Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema

The Koker Trilogy

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 52films run 88.6 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 483.5 minutes of film for each of its 11 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 11 choices had been taken by 7.82 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 Fists in the Pocket, taken by 2 visits in total.

This visit reached the work of Marco Bellocchio, through Fists in the Pocket, who has been in this closet too. Not one of those reaches is returned.

On Vimeo · On criterion.com