19 Dec 2024

Mikey Madison’s Closet Picks

The actor and star of Anora talks about Five Easy Pieces and being drawn to morally ambiguous characters, praises Isabelle Huppert’s performance in The Piano Teacher as one of the greatest of all time, and selects Take Out, one of her collaborator Sean Baker’s early New York films.

Mikey Madison: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest

choices

8

every one a single film

single films

8

chosen on their own

box sets

0

none this visit

films reached

8

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.

546 Five Easy Pieces 1970 545 Easy Rider 1969 1149 Take Out 2004 894 The Piano Teacher 2001 795 Gilda 1946 260 Eyes Without a Face 1960 799 The Kid 1921 636 Heaven’s Gate 1980

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	Five Easy Pieces	Bob Rafelson	1970	6
2	Easy Rider	Dennis Hopper	1969	4
3	Take Out	Sean Baker, Shih-Ching Tsou	2004	2
4	The Piano Teacher	Michael Haneke	2001	8
5	Gilda	Charles Vidor	1946	2
6	Eyes Without a Face	Georges Franju	1960	4
7	The Kid	Charles Chaplin	1921	3
8	Heaven’s Gate	Michael Cimino	1980	3

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1921 to 2004

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 8films run 14.9 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 111.5 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 4 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 Gilda, taken by 2 visits in total.

This visit reached the work of Sean Baker, through Take Out, who has been in this closet too. Not one of those reaches is returned.

On Vimeo · On criterion.com