24 Oct 2024

Maura Delpero’s Closet Picks

The writer and director of Vermiglio expresses her love for the poetry of Ermanno Olmi, praises how Michael Haneke’s films cut right to your heart and mind, and celebrates the emotional power of The Piano .

Maura Delpero: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest

choices

7

6 single, 1 box set

single films

6

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.

195 I fidanzati 1962 194 Il posto 1961 854 The Tree of Wooden Clogs 1978 SET The Koker Trilogy 894 The Piano Teacher 2001 1110 The Piano 1993 553 Fish Tank 2009

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	I fidanzati	Ermanno Olmi	1962	3
2	Il posto	Ermanno Olmi	1961	7
3	The Tree of Wooden Clogs	Ermanno Olmi	1978	3
4	The Koker Trilogy box set, 3 films			7
5	The Piano Teacher	Michael Haneke	2001	8
6	The Piano	Jane Campion	1993	5
7	Fish Tank	Andrea Arnold	2009	8

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1961 to 2009, box sets 1987 to 1994

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

That is 146.4 minutes of film for each of its 7 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 7 choices had been taken by 5.86 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 I fidanzati, taken by 3 visits in total.

On Vimeo · On criterion.com