31 Mar 2026
Jon Hamm’s Closet Picks
The actor selects an American indie classic by Greg Mottola, talks about rediscovering Videodrome on the Criterion Channel, and selects favorites like How to Get Ahead in Advertising, My Life as a Dog, and Tootsie.
Jon Hamm: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest
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.
| Chose | Director | Year | Taken by | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The Daytrippers | Greg Mottola | 1996 | |
| 2 |  WALL·E | Andrew Stanton | 2008 | |
| 3 |  My Life as a Dog | Lasse Hallström | 1985 | |
| 4 |  Videodrome | David Cronenberg | 1983 | |
| 5 |  How to Get Ahead in Advertising | Bruce Robinson | 1989 | |
| 6 |  The Vanishing | George Sluizer | 1988 | |
| 7 |  Man Bites Dog | Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoit Poelvoorde | 1992 | |
| 8 |  Down by Law | Jim Jarmusch | 1986 | |
| 9 |  Tootsie | Sydney Pollack | 1982 | |
| 10 |  Bottle Rocket | Wes Anderson | 1996 |
How far across film history it reaches
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 16.4 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.
That is 98.5 minutes of film for each of its 10 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 10 choices had been taken by 7.2 visits each on average, counting a box set as one thing. One of them has been taken by nobody else. The least-picked was How to Get Ahead in Advertising, taken by this visit alone.
This visit reached the work of André Bonzel, through Man Bites Dog, Andrew Stanton, through WALL·E, David Cronenberg, through Videodrome and Jim Jarmusch, through Down by Law, who have been in this closet too. Not one of those reaches is returned.