16 Apr 2025

Diane Kruger’s Closet Picks

The actor reminisces about falling in love with Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich’s collaborations at a young age, praises Andrea Arnold’s distinct vision, and talks about how David Cronenberg’s films strike a unique balance between the extreme and the personal.

Diane Kruger: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest

choices

5

4 single, 1 box set

single films

4

chosen on their own

box sets

1

one choice, many films

films reached

10

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.

SET Dietrich & von Sternberg in Hollywood 545 Easy Rider 1969 553 Fish Tank 2009 147 In the Mood for Love 2000 1059 Crash 1996

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	Dietrich & von Sternberg in Hollywood box set, 6 films			4
2	Easy Rider	Dennis Hopper	1969	4
3	Fish Tank	Andrea Arnold	2009	8
4	In the Mood for Love	Wong Kar Wai	2000	10
5	Crash	David Cronenberg	1996	6

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1969 to 2009, box sets 1930 to 1935

Dietrich & von Sternberg in Hollywood

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 10films run 16 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 192 minutes of film for each of its 5 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 5 choices had been taken by 6.4 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 Dietrich & von Sternberg in Hollywood, taken by 4 visits in total.

This visit reached the work of David Cronenberg, through Crash, who has been in this closet too. Not one of those reaches is returned.

On Vimeo · On criterion.com