24 Oct 2025

Jason Bateman’s Closet Picks

The actor and director talks about being influenced by cinematographer Gordon Willis, shares his affection for Peter Sellers’s comedy style, and selects films he’s excited to see for the first time, like Amores perros and Shampoo.

Jason Bateman: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest

choices

8

7 single, 1 box set

single films

7

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.

1060 Amores perros 2000 1056 Moonstruck 1987 SET Three Colors 987 Klute 1971 897 Barry Lyndon 1975 975 Funny Games 1997 864 Being There 1979 947 Shampoo 1975

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	Amores perros	Alejandro G. Iñárritu	2000	10
2	Moonstruck	Norman Jewison	1987	11
3	Three Colors box set, 3 films			9
4	Klute	Alan J. Pakula	1971	11
5	Barry Lyndon	Stanley Kubrick	1975	10
6	Funny Games	Michael Haneke	1997	5
7	Being There	Hal Ashby	1979	13
8	Shampoo	Hal Ashby	1975	12

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1971 to 2000, box sets 1993 to 1994

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 10films run 20 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 149.6 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 10.12 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 Funny Games, taken by 5 visits in total.

On Vimeo · On criterion.com