Oscar Isaac visits the Criterion Closet and hauls a stack of films
Oscar Isaac visited the Criterion Closet and packed a towering stack of Criterion films in a playful video released by the Criterion Collection. He pulled titles across eras and genres, notably grabbing Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ and stuffing several other discs into a tote. Isaac joked about treating the closet like his personal library and loaded far more movies than he could carry, a lighthearted showcase of Criterion's deep catalog that invites viewers to explore overlooked classics.
Oscar Isaac was in the Criterion Closet and he’s the first guy who I think properly understood that he gets all the movies for free and just overloaded the bag
There’s a couple weird angles in it because he’s climbing all over the place getting free stuff like he’s in a Nickelodeon gameshow
as a man who used to be in 3rd wave ska bands he knows how to pick it up pick it up pick it up.
I loved Bob Odenkirk's one, which was less "this film is great" and more "ooh, I want to see that one, want to have that one"
Handling it like one of those phone booths filled with dollar bills and a fan
The best Poe-related Criterion Closet post since this one
Jodie Foster also understood the assignment.
Feel like Ayo Edebiri used to hold the record
"i have most of kurosawa already oh who cares"
He learned to be thrifty during his ska band period
Saw an interview where he was asked if he’d ever consider being in another Star Wars movie, and he responded “NOPE!” so quickly I’m not sure if the interviewer was actually finished speaking 😂
bet the first one snatched was Mac and Me
Zooming out to reveal the closet has been structurally removed from the building and is in the back of a moving box truck.
Who's going to stop him? Nerds?
My honey knows a good deal when he sees one
he went to julliard. did you know that general brendel. a guatemalan is one of the greatest actors of our time
Barry Jenkins also just took everything he could www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7HL...
“I’m a really big fan of A through L!” (Swipes SHELVES into the tote)
I would treat the Criterion Closet like Super Market Sweep
Bong Joon Ho, Barry Jenkins, and Guillermo Del Toro also took HUGE bags worth of stuff iirc. Great CCloset videos to check out.
Hideo Kojima definitely understood, but he was aiming for things not available in Japan while also being very polite and apologetic about it www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUou...
i'm imagining Carl Weathers as seen in Arrested Development in the Criterion closet
I'm sure he could probably afford them, to be fair.
I would've loved going trick-or-treating with Oscar Isaac when he was a kid. Bet he *worked* that pillowcase.
I would be SO shameless. Don't they get these wholesale? So why not cram the bag full?
crazy that the criterion collection is just a bunch of movies and not a delicate crystal vase full of tears that have been collected from people who cried
Feel embarrassed to recognize You Can Count On Me from a blurry picture
Okay now that I know they can do this I have lost not a lot but the tiniest bit of respect for everybody else who's done the closet LOL
Nothing beats the kids from Wolf Pack documentary where half way through they discover they are allowed to take home whatever they want and stop talking to the camera and just grab what they can off the shelves m.youtube.com/watch?v=edCT...
Oscar Isaac 🤝 Jerome Powell
Someday this is going to get them into "all you can eat shrimp" type trouble.
The psychology of "unlimited free stuff" is fascinating — most people freeze up or grab randomly, but he clearly had a strategy. Makes you wonder if actors are just better at rapid decision-making under imaginary pressure.
First guy maybe, but I think Natasha Lyonne's haul still has him beat.
i feel like wearing jncos would be the move here
celebrities: They're just like us
I'd be like "where's the Altman shelf, these blu-rays are like $50 a piece and impossible to find"
Oscar Isaac still has a dvd/blu ray player
Guy keeps showing he is one of the most likeable actors irl
I don’t get the people who pick, like, four movies and peace out.
"hey, while I'm doing this, if I could maybe get a PA to start loading that craft services table into my car that'd be great"
Natasha Lyonne had a pretty hefty stack as well.
Next person from the film industry: “Somehow the Criterion Closet reappeared.”
I just saw this, and it was so wholesome seeing him be a literal kid in a candy store. Just hilarious and awesome seeing his bag get progressively more and more stuffed.
(me: in the BioWare Gear Store just before the Veilguard launch party)
He understood that he was cutting a commercial for them, and he intended to get paid.
He’s me. He’s just like me.
Pam Anderson was all “wait I can HAVE these?” Queen.
Maybe the first *guy* but Ayo Edebiri absolutely cleared them out
Alfonso Cuaron did this in the Criterion closet 12 years ago
I do not understand the impulse to give rich people free things.
I remember someone doing that before, I don't know who it was, thou, I havent watched a lot so I maybe can look it up.
The only proper thing to do.
I bet he knew what ones were out of print and grabbed those.
instead of a bag, can you roll in a small dumpster or large trash can? like, i would just sweep everything off the shelves and figure it all out later.
I bet he has an incredible collection at home
Couldn’t finish moonknight. 🤷🏻. Loved the set design & cinematography of Frankenstein, & enjoyed it overall despite the “You’re the real monster!“
Natasha Lyonne did a true Supermarket Sweep there. Unashamedly so.
Definitely not a nepo baby
This is the first time I’ve realized that I don’t really have any idea what the Criterion Closet, like, is
this whole time, i had assumed it was where they kept all the queer movies
well Rusty it’s a closet,
Neither do I but I have kind of pieced together that it seems to be a short video series where they let a celeb pick the Criterion movies they like in the closet and they talk a little about why they picked it