I'd go in there with a shopping cart it would look like that old show Supermarket Sweep just loading it down with Criterion Blu-rays and DVD's that they haven't released on DVD yet.
I don't think Aubrey and Jeff realized what this video was supposed to be, they probably got the message from Criterion and thought they just got to go in and grab anything they wanted without saying anything. It honestly looks like they are just going in and looting the closet and neither of them say anything of value.
These are the films mentioned: The Lady Eve, For all mankind, Harold and Maude, Being There, Under the Volcano, Scenes from a Marriage, The Squid and the whale, Safe, 3 women, Day for night, City Lights, A Taste of Honey, Rosemary's Baby, Ghost World, The Big Chill, The Player, I married a witch. Five easy Pieces might also be in there at 0:30.
Yeah, the audio is pretty crap, but one thing that still amazes me is how different Aubrey Plaza is here. I've seen her in some films, but I mostly associate her with the awkward persona she seems to play in interviews (especially on Conan O'Brien's Show - I probably watched too many of those :)). These guys seem to have good taste, pity it's so hard to hear them (even if they don't say very much).
Aubrey Plaza is giving a copy of Tootsie a hug at the end and looking very happy about it. I wonder if there were more movies but the Criterion people cut it down.
I love how accurately they satirize the characters of eye-rolling hipsters who can’t be bothered to show emotion or open their mouths when they talk. Spot on!
the audio was tolerable, just had to turn it up a bit but man they were just taking anything they didn't have, not even bothering to tell us why they liked the movies they were taking like most criterion closet patrons do out of common courtesy for the viewers.
Why would anyone lie about that? I have a feeling that this guy is pre-programmed to have, "Are you serious?" as a follow-up question so he can buy an extra few seconds to think of something clever to say, like, "So good."
Guys, take a page from Amoeba Music's "what's in my bag" series and show the guests talking about their selection and how it effected their career/personal life. This was just a 2 minute clip of two celebrities listing movies in shitty audio.
Konkey Have you watched any of the other closet videos? That's exactly what they do. The problem is that these two aren't saying anything worth hearing.
math nah the other closet videosat least have them saying where they first viewed the movie or how it effected them. This one is just "yeah I've seen that", "have you seen this one", "I like this movie". This series could be a lot better as a whole but this is a particularly bad episode.
I don’t guys, the subsequent participants in this series have a lot to live up to. The enthusiasm, energy, passion and excitement generated was off the meters. It was so palpable, it looped back around to just looking disinterested, disaffected, and dull. It’s gonna be hard to top this one.
They mumble so much / the audio is so shitty, the generated subtitles at one point read "and now I would on all fours regular stipulate", "I love so much the best ending of them I never taste on these good"... *sigh* Bonus: "blur it up so good plan", "fire nurse all that pre-service yes sir"
People complaining a lot in the comments of this video but I honestly find it super endearing that they’re just like “oh yeah, this one is great, this one is cool too, yeah, I have this one on blu ray already” it’s fun to me
Out of all the Criterion closet pick vids I've seen (and I've seen about 75) this is the only one that is gross. After seeing genius director after genius director come into this sacred alter of film and show child-like excitement, humility and gratitude to be invited, these 2 just come off as smug, too-cool for school, wise cracking shoplifters. I guess when your egos are that inflated you think its all about you.
I don't care about the audio as long as the guests are interesting and show some enthusiasm and appreciation. Few things more annoying than the mumbly, bored shtick
Yeah I'll have to say I love Criterion so much but this video wasn't very well put together. The audio was bad but I can get over that. But two minutes damn hardly got any thoughts or opinions out of Aubrey. Just as I thought she might talk about why she loves "Tootsie" as she picked it up the video ended. Not the best.
Come on people! Think of SOMETHING to say about the films you're grabbing. It's like they can't come up with a single thought between them. Completely vacant people.
I wonder who is in charge of producing these? All too often the cover is just flashed for half a second amid mumbling and so one has no idea what the movie is unless one is already familiar with it. Can we hold the cover still for 2 seconds and say the title clearly?
Judging by the feeble audio, personality-free comments, and almost total lack of enthusiasm, I'm guessing this video exists as an example of the opposite of what Criterion stands for. 😐
By the way, please add this and your other videos of people's recommendations to your *playlist* of recommendations so I can be sure I've seen them all and so I get my little alert when there's a new one. Thank you for all that you do.
i just get this vibe like Jeff Baena is the creative mind who is going to set us all free you know? Like his fresh unique perspective just really inspires the spirit to rise to the level of divinity and just soar. After listening to Jeff speak for a couple minutes, you just get that sense that mankind is going to be alright. Just kidding.
it would be better to give them a limit and have them choose movies and explain why. this was an insight into the freebie perks of celebrity but nothing else
So when you get invited to the criterion closet, do these film makers get to take this movies for free or is it them just shopping at Criterion? A dumb question but was always intrigued.
It would be nice if in at least one of these closet pics I could hear all the films chosen. Most of these would be great if they weren’t incomprehensible mumbling.
![АЛАУДИНОВ у Скабеевой: эти их ВСУ нас НЕ ДОГОНЯТ 😁 [Пародия]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/an0anqU4WGQ/mqdefault.jpg)
Yall restored The Apu Trilogy from a fire in the 1950's in India but can't get decent audio in 2017
Alex Cameron Actually it was from a nitrate explosion in a film laboratory in 90s England, but I agree.
Alex Cameron What?? I thought it got destroyed on November '55 during the RDS-37 Hydrogen bomb testing at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakh SSR
really wow
LMFAO
BURRRNNN
They just look like they're robbing the place
Braden Robinson 😂😂😂
Braden Robinson god damn, no mercy lol
I'd go in there with a shopping cart it would look like that old show Supermarket Sweep just loading it down with Criterion Blu-rays and DVD's that they haven't released on DVD yet.
lmaaao
im dying 😂😂😂
audio brought to you by tin can
the Blackmagic cinema camera from that time (mid2010s) doesn't have a good built-in mic
Yes! The audio is proper shit! 🤦🏻♂️
Does that guy speak entirely in monotone hyperbole
__________________ *Yes* __________________
Like brian from the breakfast club
He's dating Aubrey Plaza. Of course he does
I like it.
It's soothing.
and Sexy.
1:08 my fave example. lol i can't even understand what he's mumbling other than "best....movie ever"
You can restore classics with amazing quality but can't record casual videos?
your channel name's hilarious and pissing me off giving me flashbacks of Weekend
I had the same thought the other day. They like to tease us,
The audio on this is especially terrible
And who are these people?
Can you remaster this video?
sure, just wait for 8 years
I like the part where they mumble nonscensicslly.
Mumblecore brought to the closet yea boiiiiii
Lmaoooo
Lmaooo
tao lin?
I don't think Aubrey and Jeff realized what this video was supposed to be, they probably got the message from Criterion and thought they just got to go in and grab anything they wanted without saying anything. It honestly looks like they are just going in and looting the closet and neither of them say anything of value.
i’m sorry this comment has me cracking up
This is precisely it
Neither of them has anything to say of value. Have you ever read v an interview with them? It's 😴 💤
These are the films mentioned: The Lady Eve, For all mankind, Harold and Maude, Being There, Under the Volcano, Scenes from a Marriage, The Squid and the whale, Safe, 3 women, Day for night, City Lights, A Taste of Honey, Rosemary's Baby, Ghost World, The Big Chill, The Player, I married a witch. Five easy Pieces might also be in there at 0:30.
Yeah, the audio is pretty crap, but one thing that still amazes me is how different Aubrey Plaza is here. I've seen her in some films, but I mostly associate her with the awkward persona she seems to play in interviews (especially on Conan O'Brien's Show - I probably watched too many of those :)). These guys seem to have good taste, pity it's so hard to hear them (even if they don't say very much).
A Taste of Honey (1961)!!
Thanks!
Aubrey Plaza is giving a copy of Tootsie a hug at the end and looking very happy about it. I wonder if there were more movies but the Criterion people cut it down.
@@YubeyDelgado The person recording this fell asleep.
0:00 - *THE LADY EVE* _dir. Preston Sturges_ (1941)
0:10 - *FOR ALL MANKIND* _dir. Al Reinert_ (1989)
0:18 - *HAROLD AND MAUDE* _dir. Hal Ashby_ (1971)
0:22 - *BEING THERE* _dir. Hal Ashby_ (1979)
0:28 - *AMERICA LOST AND FOUND: THE BBS STORY* [Collector's Set]
*HEAD* _dir. Bob Rafelson_ (1968)
*EASY RIDER* _dir. Dennis Hopper_ (1969)
*FIVE EASY PIECES* _dir. Bob Rafelson_ (1970)
*DRIVE, HE SAID* _dir. Jack Nicholson_ (1970)
*A SAFE PLACE* _dir. Henry Jaglom_ (1971)
*THE LAST PICTURE SHOW* _dir. Peter Bogdanovich_ (1971)
*THE KING OF MARVIN GARDENS* _dir. Bob Rafelson_ (1972)
0:32 - *UNDER THE VOLCANO* _dir. John Huston_ (1984)
0:43 - *SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE* _dir. Ingmar Bergman_ (1973)
0:47 - *THE SQUID AND THE WHALE* _dir. Noah Baumbach_ (2005)
0:50 - *SAFE* _dir. Todd Haynes_ (1995)
0:56 - *3 WOMEN* _dir. Robert Altman_ (1977)
1:01 - *DAY FOR NIGHT* _dir. François Truffaut_ (1973)
1:06 - *CITY LIGHTS* _dir. Charles Chaplin_ (1931)
1:11 - *A TASTE OF HONEY* _dir. Tony Richardson_ (1961)
1:14 - *ROSEMARY'S BABY* _dir. Roman Polanski_ (1968)
1:20 - *GHOST WORLD* _dir. Terry Zwigoff_ (2001)
1:24 - *THE BIG CHILL* _dir. Lawrence Kasdan_ (1983)
1:29 - *PLAYER* _dir. Robert Altman_ (1992)
1:39 - *I MARRIED A WITCH* _dir. René Clair_ (1942)
Thank you for actually writing a comment of substance.
GOD BKESS OMG
you are doing god's work lmao
How did you even...
@@thefierce4324 If you're asking how I did the formatting, ** (asterisks around text) is bold. __ (underscores around text) is italics.
I'd complain about the audio, but neither of them say anything of substance, anyway.
That was just a snatch an grab.
'This movie is like...the best...eVer'.
...the least insightful closet segment...ever. ( :
Go in and pour all of the movies into a big shopping cart...like some sort of game show.
I think I heard Jeff Baena say the word "the" at some point. Can't tell.
go home Criterion, you're drunk.
they had to return some videotapes
Why did you capitalise every single word? Is that you, Donald Trump?
Makes me cry... Millionaire actors and filmmakers get to go in there and grab everything for free. I got to pay $100 for one Wim Wenders boxset :(
Which is why a lot of rich people stay rich.
i know, f me riiiiiiight?
Aside from my recent purchase of Cooley High (1976), most of us wait for the 50% off sale at Barnes and Noble to buy Criterion Collection videos.
You’d rather see random nobodies browsing the DVDs?
Was this recorded on a potato?
I don't think so?
GO HOME POTATO YOU'RE DRUNK!
I feel used.
Yes
mumble mumble grumble
people clowning on this video's audio quality, but ya'll have to admit, that distortion *reeks* of 2006 aesthetic.
watch in 144p for maximum effect.
I love how accurately they satirize the characters of eye-rolling hipsters who can’t be bothered to show emotion or open their mouths when they talk. Spot on!
🤣 1:31 very LA
Wait.....................................Aren't they actually just those people? Oh oh oh i see.. That's like part of your joke. Well done Ryan.
Are you sure it’s satire? I thought they just seemed annoying
"Eye rolling" is an expression of emotion!
Duh.
Who told you it wasn't?
Or perhaps they have less expressive personalities and struggle through their own insecurities 🤷♂️
Jeff Baena going around like, "Most underrated movie ever," "Best score of any movie ever," "Best ending of any movie ever."
Viewers going around like: "Pls tell corresponding movies, we can't hear you"
Most obnoxious man ever.
this was the worst criterion's closet ever
He's worse than those WhatCulture Top 10's.
I saw Aubrey selling these on Craigslist.
Love you Criterion, but worst closet yet. Not just audio and editing, but these two made little to no effort.
the audio was tolerable, just had to turn it up a bit but man they were just taking anything they didn't have, not even bothering to tell us why they liked the movies they were taking like most criterion closet patrons do out of common courtesy for the viewers.
1:35
JEFF: You never saw the player?
AUBREY: No.
JEFF: Are you serious?
AUBREY: Yeah.
JEFF: So good.
Why would anyone lie about that? I have a feeling that this guy is pre-programmed to have, "Are you serious?" as a follow-up question so he can buy an extra few seconds to think of something clever to say, like, "So good."
hollywood vacuousness in a closet. its not like the talking heads talent are the writers or directors.
Can you try get David Lynch in ?
We could've done without this one.
Guys, take a page from Amoeba Music's "what's in my bag" series and show the guests talking about their selection and how it effected their career/personal life. This was just a 2 minute clip of two celebrities listing movies in shitty audio.
Konkey Have you watched any of the other closet videos? That's exactly what they do. The problem is that these two aren't saying anything worth hearing.
math nah the other closet videosat least have them saying where they first viewed the movie or how it effected them. This one is just "yeah I've seen that", "have you seen this one", "I like this movie". This series could be a lot better as a whole but this is a particularly bad episode.
That's exactly what I'm saying. I'm suggesting that these particular guests didn't actually _say_ anything like that to warrant a better video.
I don’t guys, the subsequent participants in this series have a lot to live up to. The enthusiasm, energy, passion and excitement generated was off the meters. It was so palpable, it looped back around to just looking disinterested, disaffected, and dull. It’s gonna be hard to top this one.
Stilling waiting on that Alicia Malone one. Good pick going with Robert Altman though
wtf is this? Where's the Alicia Malone one?
I'm gonna be pissed if her's sounds this fucked up.
Raul Torres I'm waiting for that too!
Here ya go, mate! ua-cam.com/video/7QT96iMk0Kw/v-deo.html
look guys sometimes you forget to turn the mic on so you gotta go with the camera audio it happens chill out
I kinda liked this in a weird way.
lonestormtooper same here. it felt more natural
To each, his or her own.
Aubrey Plaza sounds fantastic in a lo-fi voice.
They mumble so much / the audio is so shitty, the generated subtitles at one point read "and now I would on all fours regular stipulate", "I love so much the best ending of them I never taste on these good"... *sigh*
Bonus: "blur it up so good plan", "fire nurse all that pre-service yes sir"
Hope we get videos for Ryuichi Sakamoto and Flying Lotus
Fly Lo in the closet?!?!?!
Yeah he was there recently. They posted a picture on twitter
twitter.com/Criterion/status/885604962226589696
People complaining a lot in the comments of this video but I honestly find it super endearing that they’re just like “oh yeah, this one is great, this one is cool too, yeah, I have this one on blu ray already” it’s fun to me
I agree. It feels very casual
Charisma level: Negative 100
they really match each other’s deadpan energy
I enjoyed this way less than what I was expecting
COME ON CRITERION
They should have let Aubrey go in there alone. And that joker could have held a boom mic.
Out of all the Criterion closet pick vids I've seen (and I've seen about 75) this is the only one that is gross.
After seeing genius director after genius director come into this sacred alter of film and show child-like excitement, humility and gratitude to be invited, these 2 just come off as smug, too-cool for school, wise cracking shoplifters. I guess when your egos are that inflated you think its all about you.
bad audio that's made even worse by how droll both of them are...not the best in the series
I don't care about the audio as long as the guests are interesting and show some enthusiasm and appreciation. Few things more annoying than the mumbly, bored shtick
Yeah I'll have to say I love Criterion so much but this video wasn't very well put together. The audio was bad but I can get over that. But two minutes damn hardly got any thoughts or opinions out of Aubrey. Just as I thought she might talk about why she loves "Tootsie" as she picked it up the video ended. Not the best.
At least they show what they're taking. I've seen others just go in there and throw things in a bag and say nothing better than "Oh I like this!"
I just found they are married!
Not surprised she mentioned a film she listed as one of her four favorites to Letterboxd.
aubrey is so funny it looks like she’s gonna rob the place 😭
Come on people! Think of SOMETHING to say about the films you're grabbing. It's like they can't come up with a single thought between them. Completely vacant people.
This is cool and all but @criterioncollection, where is Alicia Malone's closet picks vid???
Could we get captions of what the people pick up in these videos? Or maybe a list in the description?
I'm just here for Aubrey.
He's right about For All Mankind's soundtrack AND the ending of City Lights.
if this video had subtitles it would say [unintelligible] the whole time
audio is absolute shite
aubrey plaza picking up harold and maude is the most predictable thing ever.
I use to hate how shit the audio quality is on this, but now I think it's the best part of the video.
I didn't know who Jeff Baena was until today
I wonder who is in charge of producing these? All too often the cover is just flashed for half a second amid mumbling and so one has no idea what the movie is unless one is already familiar with it. Can we hold the cover still for 2 seconds and say the title clearly?
When does the Alicia Malone one come out
Judging by the feeble audio, personality-free comments, and almost total lack of enthusiasm, I'm guessing this video exists as an example of the opposite of what Criterion stands for. 😐
By the way, please add this and your other videos of people's recommendations to your *playlist* of recommendations so I can be sure I've seen them all and so I get my little alert when there's a new one. Thank you for all that you do.
As much as I love Aubrey Plaza, i was flabbergasted to see that she's never heard of Robert Altman's THE PLAYER
or i married a witch
Someone buy criterion a microphone please
i thought it was required for every actor to see the player
and jeff was right...city lights has the best ending of any movie in history
Gonna need a brand new 4K restoration and updated audio for this one Criterion
How do you pass up "Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman"? 1:15 If you're into old school samurai movies, give it a view.
I would have liked to hear more of their opinions because I like their work, but this was hysterical as is. And a few more movies to add to the list.
"shmuh shmeh meh blu ray? Shmuhmuh. best ever, shmeh blu ray. hummmummumuhuh best ..shmuhuh jeff bezos."
Not sure why either of them were even asked to attend
Scenes from a Marriage, perfect time to bring up that you showed Liv Ullmann in a small clip but not her picks. Pleaseeee upload. :)
Plaza is all kinds of awesome.
to most people leaving a comment.
JUST PLUG SOME FUCKING HEADPHONES IN
Who’s the dude? I clicked on for Plaza
i just get this vibe like Jeff Baena is the creative mind who is going to set us all free you know? Like his fresh unique perspective just really inspires the spirit to rise to the level of divinity and just soar. After listening to Jeff speak for a couple minutes, you just get that sense that mankind is going to be alright. Just kidding.
This is the most normal Aubrey Plaza has ever been.
The sort of remake of The Big Chill Aubrey mentioned is really good.
it would be better to give them a limit and have them choose movies and explain why. this was an insight into the freebie perks of celebrity but nothing else
Did SNL base the characters of "The Californians" on them? Totally sounds like it.
Needed a second mic near Aubrey Plaza. I could barely understand every other word; she sounded like she was underwater.
Love both of them
Worse one ever!
Invite Aubrey again!
So when you get invited to the criterion closet, do these film makers get to take this movies for free or is it them just shopping at Criterion? A dumb question but was always intrigued.
They get it for free
Make them pay for that shit lmao
Wow, the intimacy and excitement radiating off these two is about as dry as the Sahara desert..
are they a couple here? it feels like the last half of 500 days of summer where she cant stand anything Joseph Gordon Levitt says.
It's like there are two Aubrey Plazas in that closet.
love the audio. gives me asmr tingles
i cannot believe this man is dating aubrey. it makes me mad. not because of his quality as a person, just that he is a man who is dating aubrey.
And than these two tied the knot ❤️
I love that this has crappy sound quality.
Terrible audio. I hope you guys fix it.
Glad they filmed this on an iPod Nano
People who have money getting free stuff🤔
SMH right?
They should have been humble about it
Aubrey picked Under The Volcano wich is one of my favorites.
The most unpretentious closet pick video. No lofty statements. There’s a calm energy here that I like 😊.
I came here for Aubrey only
I'll just assume this was great given there is no way of knowing what was actually said
Couldn't understand a word...do you know what? I don't think I want to.🤦🏻♂️
It would be nice if in at least one of these closet pics I could hear all the films chosen. Most of these would be great if they weren’t incomprehensible mumbling.