Closet Picks
A searchable database of every pick from the Criterion Collection's Closet Picks YouTube series — with verbatim quotes, timestamped video links, and connections between guests and films.
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Aaron Sorkin writer “I was a young playwright sitting in a movie theater watching this movie and saying, ‘Jeez, I wish I had written that.’”
Glenn Close actor “When Sidney Poitier gets back on the train and he looks back at Steiger, he smiles. And when I last saw it, I thought, 'He shouldn’t have smiled.'”
Sharon Horgan actor “I watched it on the big screen… to say I was destroyed afterwards is an understatement. I couldn’t… I couldn’t speak.”
Mahershala Ali actor “There were so many things that were funny to me in this film before I started acting that are so much funnier now, and also a little painful, too.”