Eric Drysdale is back with his third visit to the Criteriumb closet where he chooses movies for his collection—do they really exist?

EatDrinkFilms posted two previous visits to the Closet in a salute to the series of Criterion Closet videos where filmmakers get to fill a bag with favorite classics films and talk about why they love those movies. 

Here are a few samples.

WIM WENDERS (Perfect Days)

JUSTINE TRIET (Anatomy of a Fall)

BARRY JENKINS (Mufasa: The Lion King)

Here’s Eric’s third visit.

The New York Times Magazine has published an article about how the Criterion Collection became the world’s arbiter of taste. Read it below.

More from the Criterion Closet.

DAN LEVY (Schitt’s Creek)

ROSINE MBAKAM (Les prières de Delphine)

PAUL GIAMATTI (The Holdovers)

LILA AVILES (Totem)

JULIO TORRES (Problemista)

 

ROGER CORMAN (etc., etc., etc.)

TODD HAYNES (May December)

Enjoy many more here.

Previous CRITERIUMB CLOSET visits.

First time

Second Time

Eric Drysdale is a writer, comedian and 3-D photography enthusiast in New York City. 

Eric has contributed to over 1500 hours of late-night television as a staff writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (2000-2005), The Colbert Report (2005-2015), The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015-2016) and Full Frontal with Samantha Bee (2016-2019) He also contributed to the Daily Show’s best selling America: The Book, The Colbert Report’s I Am America and So Can You and its sequel America Again.

In 2010, he wrote, photographed, designed, and self-published the original 3D View-Master comedy-adventure The Man With F.E.E.E.T.. The project was named among TimeOutNY’s “Best of Comedy, 2011.”

In 2018, Eric’s collection of amateur 1950s three-dimensional photography was featured in 3D: Double Vision, a survey exhibit at LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art). He also contributed an essay to the exhibition catalog. He continues to share his collection with small groups in his shows. You can find out how to attend at Midcentury Stereopanorama. Eric’s 3D work has been profiled in the New York Times and Atlas Obscura. 

His website is EricDrysdale.com