31 May 2026

Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein’s Closet Picks

The pair behind the cult-favorite sketch comedy series Portlandia joined us at the Criterion Mobile Closet in Portland, Oregon, where they shared their love for Being There and After Hours, talked about their favorite Ingmar Bergman movies, and gifted each other classics like Moonstruck and Sid & Nancy.

Filmed together, each with a page of their own: Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein

choices

8

7 single, 1 box set

single films

7

chosen on their own

box sets

1

one choice, many films

films reached

47

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.

864 Being There 1979 289 Hoop Dreams 1994 20 Sid & Nancy 1986 1056 Moonstruck 1987 929 Female Trouble 1974 1251 Drugstore Cowboy 1989 1185 After Hours 1985 SET Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	Being There	Hal Ashby	1979	13
2	Hoop Dreams	Steve James	1994	5
3	Sid & Nancy	Alex Cox	1986	7
4	Moonstruck	Norman Jewison	1987	11
5	Female Trouble	John Waters	1974	8
6	Drugstore Cowboy	Gus Van Sant	1989	5
7	After Hours	Martin Scorsese	1985	8
8	Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema box set, 40 films			13

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1974 to 1994, box sets 1946 to 2003

Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema

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 47films run 81.2 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 609.1 minutes of film for each of its 8 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 8 choices had been taken by 8.75 visits each on average, counting a box set as one thing. Every one of them has been taken by somebody else too. The least-picked was Hoop Dreams, taken by 5 visits in total.

This visit reached the work of John Waters, through Female Trouble and John Waters, through Female Trouble, who have been in this closet too. Not one of those reaches is returned.

On Vimeo · On criterion.com