19 Sept 2025

ANOHNI’s Closet Picks

The singer-songwriter and visual artist talks about the punk sensibility of Jubilee, shares why Paris Is Burning is a film she can watch endlessly, and shouts out the Eurythmics’ unique soundtrack for 1984.

ANOHNI: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest

choices

7

6 single, 1 box set

single films

6

chosen on their own

box sets

1

one choice, many films

films reached

9

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.

191 Jubilee 1978 197 Night and Fog 1955 557 The Times of Harvey Milk 1984 SET 3 Silent Classics by Josef von Sternberg 1018 Paris Is Burning 1990 984 1984 1984 468 Science Is Fiction: 23 Films by Jean Painlevé

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	Jubilee	Derek Jarman	1978	2
2	Night and Fog	Alain Resnais	1955	2
3	The Times of Harvey Milk	Robert Epstein	1984	1
4	3 Silent Classics by Josef von Sternberg box set, 3 films			1
5	Paris Is Burning	Jennie Livingston	1990	11
6	1984	Michael Radford	1984	2
7	Science Is Fiction: 23 Films by Jean Painlevé	Jean Painlevé		1

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1955 to 1990, box sets 1927 to 1928

3 Silent Classics by Josef von Sternberg

a single film, at its year a box set, across the years of its films the collection, by decade

1 of the choices is not on the axis: Science Is Fiction: 23 Films by Jean Painlevé (no year on record). Left off rather than placed at a guessed year.

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 16.4 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 140.7 minutes of film for each of its 7 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 7 choices had been taken by 2.86 visits each on average, counting a box set as one thing. Three of them have been taken by nobody else. The least-picked was 3 Silent Classics by Josef von Sternberg, taken by this visit alone.

On Vimeo · On criterion.com