11 Jun 2026

Cooper Hoffman’s Closet Picks

The actor celebrates a New York Knicks victory with Hoop Dreams, praises the way Todd Solondz and Gregg Araki bring humor to dark subjects, and selects favorites like Mean Streets and Love Streams.

Cooper Hoffman: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest

choices

10

9 single, 1 box set

single films

9

chosen on their own

box sets

1

one choice, many films

films reached

12

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.

289 Hoop Dreams 1994 1035 Come and See 1985 1241 Paper Moon 1973 1180 Thelma & Louise 1991 1235 Happiness 1998 SET Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy 843 Punch-Drunk Love 2002 1319 Hud 1963 1198 Mean Streets 1973 721 Love Streams 1984

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	Hoop Dreams	Steve James	1994	5
2	Come and See	Elem Klimov	1985	7
3	Paper Moon	Peter Bogdanovich	1973	6
4	Thelma & Louise	Ridley Scott	1991	9
5	Happiness	Todd Solondz	1998	8
6	Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy box set, 3 films			5
7	Punch-Drunk Love	Paul Thomas Anderson	2002	14
8	Hud	Martin Ritt	1963	1
9	Mean Streets	Martin Scorsese	1973	8
10	Love Streams	John Cassavetes	1984	8

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1963 to 2002, box sets 1993 to 1997

Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy

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 12films run 23.3 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 139.6 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 7.1 visits each on average, counting a box set as one thing. One of them has been taken by nobody else. The least-picked was Hud, taken by this visit alone.

This visit reached the work of Gregg Araki, through Totally F***ed Up, Gregg Araki, through The Doom Generation and Gregg Araki, through Nowhere, who have been in this closet too. Not one of those reaches is returned.

On Vimeo · On criterion.com