27 May 2026
Mindy Kaling’s Closet Picks
The actor, writer, and producer talks about being blown away by Sandra Hüller’s performance in Anatomy of a Fall, shares her attraction to the romance in Love & Basketball, and praises Mississippi Masala as being ahead of its time.
Mindy Kaling: 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 |  Anatomy of a Fall | Justine Triet | 2023 | |
| 2 |  Love & Basketball | Gina Prince-Bythewood | 2000 | |
| 3 |  Frances Ha | Noah Baumbach | 2013 | |
| 4 |  A Room with a View | James Ivory | 1986 | |
| 5 |  The Shape of Water | Guillermo del Toro | 2017 | |
| 6 |  Mississippi Masala | Mira Nair | 1991 | |
| 7 |  Pickup on South Street | Samuel Fuller | 1953 |
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 7films run 13.3 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.
That is 114.3 minutes of film for each of its 7 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 7 choices had been taken by 4.86 visits each on average, counting a box set as one thing. One of them has been taken by nobody else. The least-picked was The Shape of Water, taken by this visit alone.
This visit reached the work of Gina Prince-Bythewood, through Love & Basketball, Guillermo del Toro, through The Shape of Water and Justine Triet, through Anatomy of a Fall, who have been in this closet too. Not one of those reaches is returned.