9 May 2025

Seth Meyers’s Closet Picks

The television host, writer, and performer talks about Ralph Fiennes in The Grand Budapest Hotel and how comedic performances aren’t often given the respect they deserve, praises Miller’s Crossing for having “the best hat work in cinema history,” and shares what he learned about filmmaking from Albert and David Maysles.

Seth Meyers: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest

choices

9

every one a single film

single films

9

chosen on their own

box sets

0

none this visit

films reached

9

no set to open

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.

385 Army of Shadows 1969 1025 The Grand Budapest Hotel 2014 1112 Miller’s Crossing 1990 748 Watership Down 1978 887 Lost in America 1985 119 Withnail and I 1987 26 The Long Good Friday 1980 123 Grey Gardens 1975 122 Salesman 1969

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	Army of Shadows	Jean-Pierre Melville	1969	4
2	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Wes Anderson	2014	3
3	Miller’s Crossing	Joel Coen	1990	6
4	Watership Down	Martin Rosen	1978	4
5	Lost in America	Albert Brooks	1985	4
6	Withnail and I	Bruce Robinson	1987	6
7	The Long Good Friday	John Mackenzie	1980	2
8	Grey Gardens	David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer	1975	10
9	Salesman	David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin	1969	4

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1969 to 2014

a single film, at its year 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 9films run 15.8 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 105.6 minutes of film for each of its 9 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 9 choices had been taken by 4.78 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.

On Vimeo · On criterion.com