19 Dec 2024

Francis Ford Coppola’s Closet Picks

The legendary filmmaker praises Jacques Tati’s dedication to getting his films made, reflects on the lessons he learned from Dorothy Arzner when she was his professor, and shares the joy he finds in inspiring new generations of directors.

Francis Ford Coppola: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest

choices

4

2 single, 2 box sets

single films

2

chosen on their own

box sets

2

one choice, many films

films reached

12

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.

SET The Complete Jacques Tati 869 Rumble Fish 1983 1028 Dance, Girl, Dance 1940 SET David Lean Directs Noël Coward

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	The Complete Jacques Tati box set, 6 films			19
2	Rumble Fish	Francis Ford Coppola	1983	5
3	Dance, Girl, Dance	Dorothy Arzner	1940	4
4	David Lean Directs Noël Coward box set, 4 films			7

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1940 to 1983, box sets 1942 to 1974

The Complete Jacques Tati

David Lean Directs Noël Coward

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 12films run 19.7 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 296 minutes of film for each of its 4 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 4 choices had been taken by 8.75 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 Dance, Girl, Dance, taken by 4 visits in total.

One of the choices is their own: Rumble Fish. Left out of the lineage count, because reaching for yourself is not reaching for somebody else.

On Vimeo · On criterion.com