16 Apr 2026

Oscar Isaac’s Closet Picks

The actor praises the unique sensibility that Martin Scorsese brought to T he Last Temptation of Christ , shares his love for the visual poetry of his friend and collaborator Guillermo del Toro, and talks about why Throne of Blood is his favorite on-screen Shakespeare adaptation.

Oscar Isaac: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest

choices

14

13 single, 1 box set

single films

13

chosen on their own

box sets

1

one choice, many films

films reached

19

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.

70 The Last Temptation of Christ 1988 65 Rushmore 1998 SET John Cassavetes: Five Films 764 The Fisher King 1991 786 Dont Look Back 1967 838 Pan’s Labyrinth 2006 794 Inside Llewyn Davis 2013 842 Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams 1990 190 Throne of Blood 1957 942 The Tree of Life 2011 1156 La Llorona 2019 1201 Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio 2022 1134 Raging Bull 1980 1271 You Can Count on Me 2000

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	The Last Temptation of Christ	Martin Scorsese	1988	3
2	Rushmore	Wes Anderson	1998	5
3	John Cassavetes: Five Films box set, 6 films			30
4	The Fisher King	Terry Gilliam	1991	5
5	Dont Look Back	D. A. Pennebaker	1967	3
6	Pan’s Labyrinth	Guillermo del Toro	2006	3
7	Inside Llewyn Davis	Joel Coen, Ethan Coen	2013	2
8	Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams	Akira Kurosawa	1990	3
9	Throne of Blood	Akira Kurosawa	1957	4
10	The Tree of Life	Terrence Malick	2011	2
11	La Llorona	Jayro Bustamante	2019	1
12	Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio	Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson	2022	2
13	Raging Bull	Martin Scorsese	1980	8
14	You Can Count on Me	Kenneth Lonergan	2000	4

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1957 to 2022, box sets 1959 to 2000

John Cassavetes: Five Films

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 19films run 39.8 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 170.4 minutes of film for each of its 14 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 14 choices had been taken by 5.36 visits each on average, counting a box set as one thing. One of them has been taken by nobody else. The least-picked was La Llorona, taken by this visit alone.

This visit reached the work of Guillermo del Toro, through Pan’s Labyrinth, Guillermo del Toro, through Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio and Terry Gilliam, through The Fisher King, who have been in this closet too. Not one of those reaches is returned.

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