5 Feb 2026

Christoph Waltz’s Closet Picks

The actor selects films that speak to the connection between society and the individual, focusing on works of resistance by such directors as Béla Tarr, Yasujiro Ozu, and Ingmar Bergman.

Christoph Waltz: 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

50

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 The Complete Jacques Tati 1215 Werckmeister Harmonies 2000 483 Repulsion 1965 331 Late Spring 1949 SET Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema 5 The 400 Blows 1959

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	The Complete Jacques Tati box set, 6 films			19
2	Werckmeister Harmonies	Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky	2000	4
3	Repulsion	Roman Polanski	1965	4
4	Late Spring	Yasujiro Ozu	1949	7
5	Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema box set, 40 films			13
6	The 400 Blows	François Truffaut	1959	10

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1949 to 2000, box sets 1946 to 2003

Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema

The Complete Jacques Tati

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 50films run 85 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 849.8 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 9.5 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 Repulsion, taken by 4 visits in total.

On Vimeo · On criterion.com