16 Jan 2026

Jim Jarmusch’s Closet Picks

The writer and director pays tribute to the late Béla Tarr, shares his love for the way Andrei Tarkovsky merged poetry and cinema, and suggests watching a double bill of Black Girl and I Knew Her Well.

Jim Jarmusch: 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

16

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 Pasolini 101 1215 Werckmeister Harmonies 2000 1084 Mirror 1975 852 Black Girl 1966 721 Love Streams 1984 707 Il sorpasso 1962 801 I Knew Her Well 1965 224 Pickup on South Street 1953

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	Pasolini 101 box set, 9 films			13
2	Werckmeister Harmonies	Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky	2000	4
3	Mirror	Andrei Tarkovsky	1975	11
4	Black Girl	Ousmane Sembène	1966	7
5	Love Streams	John Cassavetes	1984	8
6	Il sorpasso	Dino Risi	1962	2
7	I Knew Her Well	Antonio Pietrangeli	1965	5
8	Pickup on South Street	Samuel Fuller	1953	7

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1953 to 2000, box sets 1961 to 1969

Pasolini 101

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 16films run 28.5 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 213.9 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 7.12 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 Il sorpasso, taken by 2 visits in total.

On Vimeo · On criterion.com