The Criterion Mobile Closet Rolls On

What’s become clear to us over the past couple of weekends is that many, many cinephiles are eager to do the same—and to share the experience. Olivia Abercrombie, an associate music editor at Paste, writes at the A.V. Club about the camaraderie that develops among those waiting in line to shoot their own Closet video. When Abercrombie arrived on the morning of the NYFF’s first Saturday, “the line was wrapped around the corner,” and after a few hours, “my newly made friends were tracking the line movement by how many A Real Pain Kieran Culkin posters away from the closet we were—exactly eight of them, lined up outside Alice Tully Hall.”

We’re pleased to see that the Mobile Closet has landed on New York’s Approval Matrix, just barely edging over the line from “lowbrow” into “highbrow” but way deep into “brilliant” territory. The magazine spoke with writer Delia Cai, who “emerged from the Criterion van with a friend” and “said she started feeling ‘existential’ while she was inside. ‘What am I doing with my life if I’m not constantly watching films?’”