20 Nov 2024
Karyn Kusama’s Closet Picks
The writer and director of Girlfight selects films with complex themes of power and ambition; praises women whose work she felt gave her permission to become a filmmaker, such as Martha Coolidge and Joan Micklin Silver; and shares her love for Yasujiro Ozu’s late masterpieces.
Karyn Kusama: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest
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.
| Chose | Director | Year | Taken by | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The Damned | Luchino Visconti | 1969 | |
| 2 |  Not a Pretty Picture | Martha Coolidge | 1975 | |
| 3 |  Chilly Scenes of Winter | Joan Micklin Silver | 1979 | |
| 4 |  Three Films by Luis Buñuel box set, 3 films | |||
| 5 |  No Country for Old Men | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | 2007 | |
| 6 |  Dogfight | Nancy Savoca | 1991 | |
| 7 |  Eclipse Series 3: Late Ozu box set, 5 films | |||
| 8 |  The Qatsi Trilogy box set, 3 films |
How far across film history it reaches
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 16films run 29.5 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.
That is 221.2 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 4.88 visits each on average, counting a box set as one thing. One of them has been taken by nobody else. The least-picked was Chilly Scenes of Winter, taken by this visit alone.