6 Jul 2026

Adam Scott’s Closet Picks

The actor explains what makes Defending Your Life a master class in writing and directing; shares how sex, lies, and videotape exposed him to a new world of cinema; and talks about David Lynch and Kyle MacLachlan's extraordinary collaborations.

Adam Scott: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest

choices

9 single, 2 box sets

single films

chosen on their own

box sets

one choice, many films

films reached

the same visit, box sets opened

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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.

1071 Defending Your Life 1991 1058 The Irishman 2019 938 sex, lies, and videotape 1989 97 Do the Right Thing 1989 720 The Big Chill 1983 977 Blue Velvet 1986 849 His Girl Friday 1940 602 The War Room 1993 SET The Before Trilogy SET The Wes Anderson Archive: Ten Films, Twenty-Five Years 771 Two Days, One Night 2014

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	Defending Your Life	Albert Brooks	1991	12
2	The Irishman	Martin Scorsese	2019	1
3	sex, lies, and videotape	Steven Soderbergh	1989	5
4	Do the Right Thing	Spike Lee	1989	20
5	The Big Chill	Lawrence Kasdan	1983	7
6	Blue Velvet	David Lynch	1986	10
7	His Girl Friday	Howard Hawks	1940	12
8	The War Room	Chris Hegedus, D. A. Pennebaker	1993	2
9	The Before Trilogy box set, 3 films			10
10	The Wes Anderson Archive: Ten Films, Twenty-Five Years box set, 10 films			7
11	Two Days, One Night	Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne	2014	1

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1940 to 2019, box sets 1995 to 2021

The Wes Anderson Archive: Ten Films, Twenty-Five Years

The Before 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 22films run 38.9 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 212.1 minutes of film for each of its 11 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 11 choices had been taken by 7.91 visits each on average, counting a box set as one thing. Two of them have been taken by nobody else. The least-picked was Two Days, One Night, taken by this visit alone.

This visit reached the work of Jean-Pierre Dardenne, through Two Days, One Night and Luc Dardenne, through Two Days, One Night, who have been in this closet too. Not one of those reaches is returned.

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