Closet Picks

22 Apr 2025

Diego Luna’s Closet Picks

The actor, director, and producer talks about Krzysztof Kieślowski as an important filmmaker in his life, praises Carlos as “a beautiful example of long-format storytelling,” and encourages everyone to watch the work of Chris Marker.

Diego Luna: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest

choices
8
6 single, 2 box sets
single films
6
chosen on their own
box sets
2
one choice, many films
films reached
11
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.

single film, with its spine number box set
Chose Director Year Taken by
1 Amarcord Federico Fellini 1973
6
2 The 400 Blows François Truffaut 1959
10
3 La Jetée/Sans Soleil box set, 2 films
10
4 Y tu mamá también Alfonso Cuarón 2001
9
5 Carlos Olivier Assayas 2010
1
6 Three Colors box set, 3 films
9
7 Tótem Lila Avilés 2023
3
8 Parasite Bong Joon Ho 2019
6

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1959 to 2023, box sets 1963 to 1994
La Jetée/Sans Soleil
Three Colors
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 11films run 21.9 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 164.2 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 6.75 visits each on average, counting a box set as one thing. One of them has been taken by nobody else. The least-picked was Carlos, taken by this visit alone.

This visit reached the work of Alfonso Cuarón, through Y tu mamá también, Bong Joon Ho, through Parasite and Lila Avilés, through Tótem, who have been in this closet too. Not one of those reaches is returned.

On Vimeo · On criterion.com