27 Oct 2025

Lucy Liu’s Closet Picks

The actor and producer praises the groundbreaking work of martial-arts legends Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, shares her love for Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma, and remembers the thrill of seeing The Grifters for the first time.

Lucy Liu: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest

choices

6

4 single, 2 box sets

single films

4

chosen on their own

box sets

2

one choice, many films

films reached

15

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 Jackie Chan: Emergence of a Superstar 1014 Roma 2018 SET Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits 647 On the Waterfront 1954 1246 The Grifters 1990 147 In the Mood for Love 2000

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	Jackie Chan: Emergence of a Superstar box set, 6 films			5
2	Roma	Alfonso Cuarón	2018	9
3	Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits box set, 5 films			9
4	On the Waterfront	Elia Kazan	1954	13
5	The Grifters	Stephen Frears	1990	5
6	In the Mood for Love	Wong Kar Wai	2000	10

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1954 to 2018, box sets 1971 to 1985

Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits

Jackie Chan: Emergence of a Superstar

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 15films run 25.8 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 258.3 minutes of film for each of its 6 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 6 choices had been taken by 8.5 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 Jackie Chan: Emergence of a Superstar, taken by 5 visits in total.

This visit reached the work of Alfonso Cuarón, through Roma, who has been in this closet too. Not one of those reaches is returned.

On Vimeo · On criterion.com