2022 Closet Picks
Closet Picks is a video series by The Criterion Collection.[1] Involving its Criterion Closet where all of its distributed titles are stored, Criterion regularly invites individuals in the film and entertainment industries, as well as those adjacent to them, to peruse and choose from its selection of discs.[2] The video series began in 2010 when director Guillermo del Toro visited the Criterion office, during which he was filmed making his selections from the Criterion Closet. Since then, Criterion has filmed over two hundred installments of Closet Picks; past visitors include Todd Field, Paul Dano, Aubrey Plaza, and many others.[3]
All dates are drawn from the closet picks database.[4]
February
[edit]Renate Reinsve (February 1)
[edit]Criterion citation: "The breakout star of The Worst Person in the World takes home films by Michael Haneke, David Lynch, and Claire Denis."[5]
| Film | Director | Ref |
|---|---|---|
| Pickpocket | Robert Bresson | [5] |
| White Material | Claire Denis | |
| Mulholland Drive | David Lynch | |
| Certified Copy | Abbas Kiarostami | |
| The Piano Teacher | Michael Haneke | |
| Mirror | Andrei Tarkovsky | |
| A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman | Ingmar Bergman | |
| Stage and Spectacle | Jean Renoir | |
| Pierre Étaix | Pierre Étaix |
March
[edit]Agnès b. (March 11)
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Criterion citation: "The fashion designer recalls a favorite scene from The Asphalt Jungle, talks about her love of films about childhood, and celebrates her friends David Lynch and Agnès Varda."[6]
| Film | Director | Ref |
|---|---|---|
| Lost Highway | David Lynch | [6] |
| The Asphalt Jungle | John Huston | |
| Teorema | Pier Paolo Pasolini | |
| Cul-de-sac | Roman Polanski | |
| The Night of the Hunter | Charles Laughton | |
| All About My Mother | Pedro Almodóvar | |
| The Complete Films of Agnès Varda | Agnès Varda |
Charlotte Gainsbourg (March 17)
[edit]Criterion citation: "While perusing our collection, the acclaimed actor and singer-songwriter linked some of her favorite films to memories of her family."[7]
| Film | Director | Ref |
|---|---|---|
| Green for Danger | Sidney Gilliat | [7] |
| Antichrist | Lars von Trier | |
| The Night of the Hunter | Charles Laughton | |
| Belle de Jour | Luis Buñuel | |
| Being John Malkovich | Spike Jonze | |
| The Complete Films of Agnès Varda | Agnès Varda |
April
[edit]Sarita Choudhury (April 5)
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Criterion citation: "The costar of Mississippi Masala stocks up on films she cherishes, including classics by Satyajit Ray, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Stephen Frears."
Wilco (April 20)
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Criterion citation: "The members of the beloved rock band take turns spotlighting movies that have a special meaning for them."[9]
| Film | Director | Ref |
|---|---|---|
| Being There | Hal Ashby | [9] |
| A Poem Is a Naked Person | Les Blank | |
| Rumble Fish | Francis Ford Coppola | |
| My Winnipeg | Guy Maddin | |
| Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese | Martin Scorsese | |
| Le deuxième souffle | Jean-Pierre Melville | |
| America, Lost and Found | Lance Bird, Tom Johnson | |
| Eclipse Series 9: The Delirious Fictions of William Klein | William Klein |
May
[edit]Minnie Driver (May 4)
[edit]Criterion citation: "The Oscar-nominated actor shines a spotlight on the allure of French star Béatrice Dalle, the riveting female characters in Uncut Gems, and the unbridled imagination in Jim Jarmusch's films."[10]
June
[edit]Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman (June 2)
[edit]Criterion citation: "The codirectors of the sci-fi musical Neptune Frost talk about filmmakers who break new cinematic ground, from art-house titans like Pier Paolo Pasolini to contemporary voices like Garrett Bradley."[11]
July
[edit]Ron Shelton (July 27)
[edit]Criterion citation: "The director of Bull Durham sings the praises of a few favorite movies, reminisces about an unforgettable encounter with Billy Wilder, and shares a piece of filmmaking wisdom."[12]
| Film | Director | Ref |
|---|---|---|
| The Lady Vanishes | Alfred Hitchcock | [12] |
| Straw Dogs | Sam Peckinpah | |
| Badlands | Terrence Malick | |
| Some Like It Hot | Billy Wilder | |
| His Girl Friday | Howard Hawks | |
| On the Waterfront | Elia Kazan |
August
[edit]Kyle MacLachlan (August 15)
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Criterion citation: "The actor talks about being inspired by Alain Delon and Peter Sellers, and about working with David Lynch, John Frankenheimer, and Alfonso Cuarón."[13]
John Darnielle (August 31)
[edit]Criterion citation: "The Mountain Goats front man and novelist picked up a few favorite movies and shared his love for Bruce Lee, Laurence Olivier, Toshiro Mifune, and other screen icons."[14]
| Film | Director | Ref |
|---|---|---|
| Samurai Trilogy | Hiroshi Inagaki | [14] |
| Original Cast Album: Company | D. A. Pennebaker | |
| Salvatore Giuliano | Francesco Rosi | |
| Richard III | Laurence Olivier | |
| Kagemusha | Akira Kurosawa | |
| The Signifyin' Works of Marlon Riggs | Marlon Riggs | |
| Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits | Various directors | |
| Youth of the Beast | Seijun Suzuki | |
| The Ballad of Narayama | Keisuke Kinoshita |
September
[edit]Gina Prince-Bythewood (September 12)
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Criterion citation: "While in New York to promote her film The Woman King, the director stopped by our office and picked up some of her favorite movies, including Black Orpheus and Broadcast News."[15]
Rodrigo Prieto (September 23)
[edit]Criterion citation: "The acclaimed cinematographer of Amores perros, The Irishman, 25th Hour, and Silence uses his selections to talk about the details of cinematic lighting, color, and sound design."[16]
October
[edit]Elvis Mitchell (October 1)
[edit]Criterion citation: "In town for the New York premiere of his documentary Is That Black Enough For You?!?, the critic and filmmaker selects some of his favorite movies, including a few that opened up new possibilities in Black cinema."
| Film | Director | Ref |
|---|---|---|
| Husbands | John Cassavetes | [17] |
| Melvin Van Peebles: Essential Films | Melvin Van Peebles | |
| Round Midnight | Bertrand Tavernier | |
| To Sleep with Anger | Charles Burnett | |
| Love Jones | Theodore Witcher | |
| The Parallax View | Alan J. Pakula | |
| Miller's Crossing | Coen brothers |
Vicky Krieps (October 2)
[edit]Criterion citation: "While in town for the New York premiere of Marie Kreutzer's Corsage, the acclaimed actor visited Criterion to film an interview for our edition of Mia Hansen-Løve's Bergman Island and to take a trip inside our closet."[18]
Cauleen Smith (October 3)
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Criterion citation: "The director of Drylongso talks about her fondness for Jean-Pierre Gorin, her love of To Sleep with Anger's title sequence, and the influence of Sergei Parajanov on her own work."[19]
| Film | Director | Ref |
|---|---|---|
| Do the Right Thing | Spike Lee | [19] |
| La Jetée/Sans Soleil | Chris Marker | |
| The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice | Yasujirō Ozu | |
| Eclipse Series 31: Three Popular Films by Jean-Pierre Gorin | Jean-Pierre Gorin | |
| Stalker | Andrei Tarkovsky | |
| Blowup | Michelangelo Antonioni | |
| The Color of Pomegranates | Sergei Parajanov | |
| Black Girl | Ousmane Sembène | |
| To Sleep with Anger | Charles Burnett | |
| Symbiopsychotaxiplasm | William Greaves | |
| The Princess Bride | Rob Reiner |
Cate Blanchett and Todd Field (October 4)
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Criterion citation: "The director and the lead actor of Tár swap movie recommendations and battle over the Essential Fellini box set."[20]
Frederick Wiseman (October 5)
[edit]Criterion citation: "The great documentary filmmaker chooses a group of films that embody some of the qualities he tries to bring to his own work, including straight-faced comedy and the mixture of literal and abstract elements."[21]
| Film | Director | Ref |
|---|---|---|
| Bicycle Thieves | Vittorio De Sica | [21] |
| La Strada | Federico Fellini | |
| Knife in the Water | Roman Polanski | |
| Down by Law | Jim Jarmusch | |
| Paths of Glory | Stanley Kubrick |
Sally Potter (October 6)
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Criterion citation: "The director of Orlando highlights movies that made her realize there's nothing better to be than a filmmaker."[22]
Charlotte Wells (October 11)
[edit]Criterion citation: "During a trip inside our closet, the writer-director told us about how Chantal Akerman inspired a few moments in her acclaimed debut feature, Aftersun."[23]
| Film | Director | Ref |
|---|---|---|
| Minding the Gap | Bing Liu | [23] |
| David Lean Directs Noël Coward | David Lean | |
| A Woman Under the Influence | John Cassavetes | |
| Eclipse Series 19: Chantal Akerman in the Seventies | Chantal Akerman |
Marc Maron (October 13)
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Criterion citation: "The comedian, actor, and podcaster picks up a couple of classic westerns, a favorite movie that has long eluded his comprehension, and a John Waters film he considers 'one of the only weapons against fascism we have.'"[24]
Elegance Bratton (October 21)
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Criterion citation: "The director of The Inspection tells us why Jane Wyman is 'a whole mood,' why Douglas Sirk is his dude, and which film will forever change the way you see curtains."[25]
| Film | Director | Ref |
|---|---|---|
| Sid and Nancy | Alex Cox | [25] |
| Summertime | David Lean | |
| Ratcatcher | Lynne Ramsay | |
| Written on the Wind | Douglas Sirk | |
| All That Heaven Allows | ||
| Rashomon | Akira Kurosawa | |
| Melvin Van Peebles: Essential Films | Melvin Van Peebles | |
| Paris Is Burning | Jennie Livingston | |
| Bamboozled | Spike Lee | |
| The Battle of Algiers | Gillo Pontecorvo | |
| Some Like It Hot | Billy Wilder |
Park Chan-wook (October 31)
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Criterion citation: "The director of Oldboy and Decision to Leave talks about the influence of Ingmar Bergman, his complicated feelings about The Makioka Sisters, the way Mike Leigh works with actors, and his admiration for Don Siegel's films."[26]
| Film | Director | Ref |
|---|---|---|
| The Magician | Ingmar Bergman | [26] |
| Red Desert | Michelangelo Antonioni | |
| Stagecoach | John Ford | |
| The Makioka Sisters | Kon Ichikawa | |
| Blow Out | Brian De Palma | |
| Les Cousins | Claude Chabrol | |
| Godzilla: The Showa-Era Films, 1954–1975 | Various directors | |
| Life Is Sweet | Mike Leigh | |
| La Notte | Michelangelo Antonioni | |
| Riot in Cell Block 11 | Don Siegel | |
| Le Silence de la mer | Jean-Pierre Melville |
November
[edit]Neal Brennan (November 1)
[edit]Criterion citation: "The comedian talks about Andy Griffith's electric performance in A Face in the Crowd, the depiction of childhood loneliness in Me and You and Everyone We Know, and favorite films such as Bringing Up Baby and Menace II Society."[27]
Raúl Castillo (November 1)
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Criterion citation: "The actor, known for his performances in Looking, We the Animals, and The Inspection, talks about two classics that inspired him to make movies and his love of Orson Welles's gift for self-reinvention."[28]
Floyd Norman (November 3)
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Criterion citation: "The legendary animator, who has worked on such Disney classics as Sleeping Beauty and Mary Poppins, talks about taking inspiration from Alfred Hitchcock, Akira Kurosawa, and Zoltán Korda's Jungle Book."[29]
| Film | Director | Ref |
|---|---|---|
| Eclipse Series 30: Sabu! | Various directors | [29] |
| The Thief of Bagdad | Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan | |
| The Hidden Fortress | Akira Kurosawa | |
| Rebecca | Alfred Hitchcock | |
| Malcolm X | Spike Lee | |
| My Man Godfrey | Gregory La Cava |
Amir Naderi (November 8)
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Criterion citation: "While in New York City for a theatrical run of his 1984 film The Runner, the Iranian filmmaker took a trip into our closet, where he gravitated to ambitious, sprawling works like A Brighter Summer Day and Dekalog."[30]
| Film | Director | Ref |
|---|---|---|
| A Brighter Summer Day | Edward Yang | [30] |
| Three Films by Luis Buñuel | Luis Buñuel | |
| A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman | Ingmar Bergman | |
| Dekalog | Krzysztof Kieślowski | |
| The Apu Trilogy | Satyajit Ray |
Pauline Chalamet (November 9)
[edit]Criterion citation: "The star of The Sex Lives of College Girls zeroes in on her favorite women filmmakers, including Catherine Breillat and Barbara Loden, and French cinema heroes like François Truffaut and Éric Rohmer."
| Film | Director | Ref |
|---|---|---|
| John Cassavetes: Five Films | John Cassavetes | [31] |
| Fat Girl | Catherine Breillat | |
| Wanda | Barbara Loden | |
| Six Moral Tales | Éric Rohmer | |
| The Complete Films of Agnès Varda | Agnès Varda | |
| À Nos Amours | Maurice Pialat | |
| Day for Night | François Truffaut | |
| The Other Side of Hope | Aki Kaurismäki |
Daniels (November 30)
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Criterion citation: "The duo behind Everything Everywhere All at Once take home some of their favorite films, with a special focus on wildly stylized genre movies that reflect their own aesthetic sensibility."[32]
| Film | Director | Ref |
|---|---|---|
| The Before Trilogy | Richard Linklater | [32] |
| Police Story/Police Story 2 | Jackie Chan | |
| Godzilla: The Showa-Era Films, 1954–1975 | Various directors | |
| Tampopo | Juzo Itami | |
| Malcolm X | Spike Lee | |
| Repo Man | Alex Cox |
References
[edit]- ^ Hunt, Joshu (February 29, 2024). "Sure, It Won an Oscar. But Is It Criterion?". The New York Times.
- ^ "The Criterion Closet Is Hitting the Road". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
- ^ Ang, Raymond (2024-09-27). "How the Criterion Closet Became Internet Famous". GQ. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
- ^ "Search all Closet Picks". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
- ^ a b "Renate Reinsve's Closet Picks". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
- ^ a b "Agnès B.'s Closet Picks". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
- ^ a b "Charlotte Gainsbourg's Closet Picks". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
- ^ "Sarita Choudhury's Closet Picks". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
- ^ a b "Wilco's Closet Picks". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
- ^ a b "Minnie Driver's Closet Picks". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
- ^ a b "Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman's Closet Picks". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
- ^ a b "Ron Shelton's Closet Picks". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
- ^ a b "Kyle MacLachlan's Closet Picks". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
- ^ a b "John Darnielle's Closet Picks". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
- ^ a b "Gina Prince-Bythewood's Closet Picks". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
- ^ a b "Rodrigo Prieto's Closet Picks". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
- ^ "Elvis Mitchell's Closet Picks". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
- ^ a b "Vicky Krieps's Closet Picks". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
- ^ a b "Cauleen Smith's Closet Picks". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
- ^ a b "Cate Blanchett and Todd Field's Closet Picks". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
- ^ a b "Frederick Wiseman's Closet Picks". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
- ^ a b "Sally Potter's Closet Picks". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
- ^ a b "Charlotte Wells's Closet Picks". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
- ^ a b "Marc Maron's Closet Picks". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
- ^ a b "Elegance Bratton's Closet Picks". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
- ^ a b "Park Chan-wook's Closet Picks". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
- ^ a b "Neal Brennan's Closet Picks". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
- ^ a b "Raúl Castillo's Closet Picks". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
- ^ a b "Floyd Norman's Closet Picks". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
- ^ a b "Amir Naderi's Closet Picks". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
- ^ "Pauline Chalamet's Closet Picks". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
- ^ a b "Daniels' Closet Picks". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 2025-01-04.