"The hottest event at this year’s New York Film Festival isn’t a film at all. It’s a van. Parked next to Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, the mobile version of the Criterion Closet — a tiny space stocked with the prestigious DVDs and Blu-rays of films in the Criterion Collection — attracted a line that wrapped around the block. It was a chance for festivalgoers to enact their own version of the Closet Picks videos, in which celebrities like Bill Hader, Ayo Edebiri and Willem Dafoe visit a product-filled closet in the company’s Manhattan office. They pick out their favorite titles and evangelize about their choices while not so coincidentally on tour promoting their latest projects. (Dafoe’s haul included Luchino Visconti’s 'The Leopard' and the actor’s own 'The Last Temptation of Christ'; Edebiri left with Wes Anderson’s 'Bottle Rocket,' among other titles, and Hader’s selections included the western 'My Darling Clementine.') ..."
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