18 Sept 2026
Glenn Close’s Closet Picks
The actor shares her close childhood connection to White Mane and The Black Stallion, reminisces about the experience of making The Big Chill, and talks about scenes that have stayed with her from The Comfort of Strangers, Women in Love, and other movies.
Glenn Close: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest
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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.
| Chose | Director | Year | Taken by | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The Red Balloon and Other Stories: Five Films by Albert Lamorisse box set, 5 films | |||
| 2 |  The Black Stallion | Carroll Ballard | 1979 | |
| 3 |  In the Heat of the Night | Norman Jewison | 1967 | |
| 4 |  The Comfort of Strangers | Paul Schrader | 1990 | |
| 5 |  The Big Chill | Lawrence Kasdan | 1983 | |
| 6 |  Amarcord | Federico Fellini | 1973 | |
| 7 |  Women in Love | Ken Russell | 1969 | |
| 8 |  Cries and Whispers | Ingmar Bergman | 1972 |
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 12films run 17.8 hours. The median visit runs 18.9 hours, over the 379 whose every runtime is on record.
That is 133.5 minutes of film for each of its 8 choices, counting a box set as the one choice it was. Across the 379 visits with a complete total, the median is 135.2 minutes.
How unusual this haul was
Its 8 choices had been taken by 3.75 visits each on average, counting a box set as one thing. Two of them have been taken by nobody else. The least-picked was In the Heat of the Night, taken by this visit alone.