7 Jan 2026

Diego Calva’s Closet Picks

The actor talks about studying Charlie Chaplin’s performance in City Lights , shows off his tattoos inspired by After Hours and Slacker , and selects favorite coming-of-age movies by Harmony Korine and Andrea Arnold.

Diego Calva: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest

choices

16

15 single, 1 box set

single films

15

chosen on their own

box sets

1

one choice, many films

films reached

18

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.

501 Paris, Texas 1984 680 City Lights 1931 140 8½ 1963 1185 After Hours 1985 968 Japón 2002 459 The Exterminating Angel 1962 840 The Executioner 1963 5 The 400 Blows 1959 1238 Gummo 1997 553 Fish Tank 2009 SET Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy 247 Slacker 1991 248 Videodrome 1983 1059 Crash 1996 1131 Pink Flamingos 1972 97 Do the Right Thing 1989

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	Paris, Texas	Wim Wenders	1984	9
2	City Lights	Charles Chaplin	1931	10
3	8½	Federico Fellini	1963	18
4	After Hours	Martin Scorsese	1985	8
5	Japón	Carlos Reygadas	2002	1
6	The Exterminating Angel	Luis Buñuel	1962	5
7	The Executioner	Luis García Berlanga	1963	2
8	The 400 Blows	François Truffaut	1959	10
9	Gummo	Harmony Korine	1997	2
10	Fish Tank	Andrea Arnold	2009	8
11	Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy box set, 3 films			5
12	Slacker	Richard Linklater	1991	5
13	Videodrome	David Cronenberg	1983	10
14	Crash	David Cronenberg	1996	6
15	Pink Flamingos	John Waters	1972	2
16	Do the Right Thing	Spike Lee	1989	20

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1931 to 2009, box sets 1993 to 1997

Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy

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 18films run 30.7 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 115.1 minutes of film for each of its 16 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 16 choices had been taken by 7.56 visits each on average, counting a box set as one thing. One of them has been taken by nobody else. The least-picked was Japón, taken by this visit alone.

This visit reached the work of David Cronenberg, through Videodrome, David Cronenberg, through Crash, Gregg Araki, through Totally F***ed Up, Gregg Araki, through The Doom Generation, Gregg Araki, through Nowhere, John Waters, through Pink Flamingos and Wim Wenders, through Paris, Texas, who have been in this closet too. Not one of those reaches is returned.

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