17 Dec 2024

Harris Dickinson’s Closet Picks

The actor and star of Babygirl expresses his love for the films of Lino Brocka , praises his costar Nicole Kidman’s performance in To Die For, and talks about being influenced by such filmmakers as Mike Leigh and Harmony Korine.

Harris Dickinson: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest

choices

8

7 single, 1 box set

single films

7

chosen on their own

box sets

1

one choice, many films

films reached

13

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.

659 Life Is Sweet 1990 664 The Life of Oharu 1952 SET Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 2 926 Manila in the Claws of Light 1975 1238 Gummo 1997 1213 To Die For 1995 26 The Long Good Friday 1980 339 Yi Yi 2000

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	Life Is Sweet	Mike Leigh	1990	4
2	The Life of Oharu	Kenji Mizoguchi	1952	2
3	Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 2 box set, 6 films			3
4	Manila in the Claws of Light	Lino Brocka	1975	2
5	Gummo	Harmony Korine	1997	2
6	To Die For	Gus Van Sant	1995	6
7	The Long Good Friday	John Mackenzie	1980	2
8	Yi Yi	Edward Yang	2000	12

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1952 to 2000, box sets 1931 to 2000

Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 2

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 13films run 24.2 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 181.2 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 4.12 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 The Long Good Friday, taken by 2 visits in total.

This visit reached the work of Mike Leigh, through Life Is Sweet, who has been in this closet too. Not one of those reaches is returned.

On Vimeo · On criterion.com