28 Mar 2025

Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg’s Closet Picks

The longtime creative partners share their love for Albert Brooks, praise Jackie Chan as “the funniest living human being,” and talk about referencing The Cranes Are Flying for their new show The Studio .

Filmed together, each with a page of their own: Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg

choices

18

14 single, 4 box sets

single films

14

chosen on their own

box sets

4

one choice, many films

films reached

31

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.

1071 Defending Your Life 1991 1001 The Daytrippers 1996 SET Jackie Chan: Emergence of a Superstar 312 Samurai Spy 1965 SET Police Story / Police Story 2 408 Breathless 1960 1033 The Cameraman 1928 692 It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World 1963 SET The Complete Jacques Tati 975 Funny Games 1997 220 Naked Lunch 1991 982 Hedwig and the Angry Inch 2001 651 Badlands 1973 146 The Cranes Are Flying 1957 575 The Killing 1956 426 The Ice Storm 1997 SET The Infernal Affairs Trilogy 947 Shampoo 1975

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	Defending Your Life	Albert Brooks	1991	12
2	The Daytrippers	Greg Mottola	1996	6
3	Jackie Chan: Emergence of a Superstar box set, 6 films			5
4	Samurai Spy	Masahiro Shinoda	1965	1
5	Police Story / Police Story 2 box set, 2 films			7
6	Breathless	Jean-Luc Godard	1960	6
7	The Cameraman	Edward Sedgwick	1928	8
8	It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World	Stanley Kramer	1963	3
9	The Complete Jacques Tati box set, 6 films			19
10	Funny Games	Michael Haneke	1997	5
11	Naked Lunch	David Cronenberg	1991	6
12	Hedwig and the Angry Inch	John Cameron Mitchell	2001	10
13	Badlands	Terrence Malick	1973	6
14	The Cranes Are Flying	Mikhail Kalatozov	1957	5
15	The Killing	Stanley Kubrick	1956	5
16	The Ice Storm	Ang Lee	1997	5
17	The Infernal Affairs Trilogy box set, 3 films			1
18	Shampoo	Hal Ashby	1975	12

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1928 to 2001, box sets 1949 to 2003

The Complete Jacques Tati

Jackie Chan: Emergence of a Superstar

Police Story / Police Story 2

The Infernal Affairs 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 31films run 53.2 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 177.4 minutes of film for each of its 18 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 18 choices had been taken by 6.78 visits each on average, counting a box set as one thing. Two of them have been taken by nobody else. The least-picked was The Infernal Affairs Trilogy, taken by this visit alone.

This visit reached the work of David Cronenberg, through Naked Lunch, John Cameron Mitchell, through Hedwig and the Angry Inch, David Cronenberg, through Naked Lunch and John Cameron Mitchell, through Hedwig and the Angry Inch, who have been in this closet too. Not one of those reaches is returned.

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