8 Jun 2026

Colman Domingo’s Closet Picks

The actor talks about the pleasure of discovering classics like Black Girl and Purple Noon, shares his deep affection for Claudine, and finds a well of inspiration in the films of Wong Kar Wai.

Colman Domingo: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest

choices

8

7 single, 1 box set

single films

7

chosen on their own

box sets

1

one choice, many films

films reached

14

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.

852 Black Girl 1966 194 Il posto 1961 1052 Claudine 1974 1198 Mean Streets 1973 637 Purple Noon 1960 1056 Moonstruck 1987 SET World of Wong Kar Wai 192 Coup de grâce 1976

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	Black Girl	Ousmane Sembène	1966	7
2	Il posto	Ermanno Olmi	1961	7
3	Claudine	John Berry	1974	9
4	Mean Streets	Martin Scorsese	1973	8
5	Purple Noon	René Clément	1960	5
6	Moonstruck	Norman Jewison	1987	11
7	World of Wong Kar Wai box set, 7 films			6
8	Coup de grâce	Volker Schlöndorff	1976	2

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1960 to 1987, box sets 1988 to 2004

World of Wong Kar Wai

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 14films run 23.3 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 174.8 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 6.88 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 Coup de grâce, taken by 2 visits in total.

This visit reached the work of Volker Schlöndorff, through Coup de grâce, who has been in this closet too. Not one of those reaches is returned.

On Vimeo · On criterion.com