18 Mar 2026

Elijah Wood’s Closet Picks

The actor and producer talks about memorable needle drops in Amores perros and Blow-Up, reflects on how documentaries can transport you into another world, and praises the haunting atmospheres of Birth and Eyes Wide Shut.

Elijah Wood: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest

choices

11

10 single, 1 box set

single films

10

chosen on their own

box sets

1

one choice, many films

films reached

20

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.

133 The Vanishing 1988 1060 Amores perros 2000 627 The Game 1997 865 Blow-Up 1966 1265 Thelonious Monk Straight, No Chaser 1988 1298 Birth 2004 1290 Eyes Wide Shut 1999 1235 Happiness 1998 975 Funny Games 1997 SET The Wes Anderson Archive: Ten Films, Twenty-Five Years 647 On the Waterfront 1954

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	The Vanishing	George Sluizer	1988	6
2	Amores perros	Alejandro G. Iñárritu	2000	10
3	The Game	David Fincher	1997	4
4	Blow-Up	Michelangelo Antonioni	1966	7
5	Thelonious Monk Straight, No Chaser	Charlotte Zwerin	1988	3
6	Birth	Jonathan Glazer	2004	1
7	Eyes Wide Shut	Stanley Kubrick	1999	3
8	Happiness	Todd Solondz	1998	8
9	Funny Games	Michael Haneke	1997	5
10	The Wes Anderson Archive: Ten Films, Twenty-Five Years box set, 10 films			7
11	On the Waterfront	Elia Kazan	1954	13

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1954 to 2004, box sets 1996 to 2021

The Wes Anderson Archive: Ten Films, Twenty-Five Years

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 20films run 36.7 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 200 minutes of film for each of its 11 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 11 choices had been taken by 6.09 visits each on average, counting a box set as one thing. One of them has been taken by nobody else. The least-picked was Birth, taken by this visit alone.

On Vimeo · On criterion.com