17 Jun 2026
Eric Andre’s Closet Picks
The comedian, actor, and writer pairs two favorite films about tortured geniuses, All That Jazz and Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling; praises The Battle of Algiers as one of the best movies of all time; and talks about the many talents of Jackie Chan.
Eric Andre: 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 |  John Cassavetes: Five Films box set, 6 films | |||
| 2 |  Hollywood Shuffle | Robert Townsend | 1987 | |
| 3 |  Uncut Gems | Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie | 2019 | |
| 4 |  Sorcerer | William Friedkin | 1977 | |
| 5 |  All That Jazz | Bob Fosse | 1979 | |
| 6 |  Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling | Richard Pryor | 1986 | |
| 7 |  House | Nobuhiko Obayashi | 1977 | |
| 8 |  The Battle of Algiers | Gillo Pontecorvo | 1966 | |
| 9 |  Police Story / Police Story 2 box set, 2 films | |||
| 10 |  Jackie Chan: Emergence of a Superstar box set, 6 films | |||
| 11 |  Les Blank: Always for Pleasure | Les Blank | 1968 | |
| 12 |  Malcolm X | Spike Lee | 1992 |
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 23films run 44.5 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.
That is 222.7 minutes of film for each of its 12 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 12 choices had been taken by 9.25 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 Sorcerer, taken by 2 visits in total.
This visit reached the work of Benny Safdie, through Uncut Gems, Josh Safdie, through Uncut Gems and William Friedkin, through Sorcerer, who have been in this closet too. Not one of those reaches is returned.