{"id":204309,"date":"2026-04-04T16:58:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T20:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=204309"},"modified":"2026-04-04T16:58:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T20:58:36","slug":"in-the-criterion-closet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=204309","title":{"rendered":"In the Criterion Closet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_VIKYAIu23o?si=4DsXKM6Ig3QMSCWv\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nThis one&#8217;s been a long time coming! My friend, the great Kim Morgan, goes into the Criterion Closet. (If you&#8217;re not aware of what this is, &#8220;Closet Picks&#8221; is a series hosted by the Criterion Collection where celebrities, directors, artists, are invited to enter the &#8220;closet&#8221; lined with Criterion releases, where they pick out a bunch of movies from the collection, providing commentary. One of my favorite ongoing little web series. I love to see what people choose to pick, how they talk about the work that inspired them. Kim still writes regularly on her site <a href=\"https:\/\/thesunsetgun.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sunset Gun<\/a>, with all of the other great writing she does at other outlets. <\/p>\n<p>I could listen to Kim talk about movies all day, and I&#8217;m not just saying that because she includes a shout-out to me (very touched). She just knows her shit! Dorothy Arzner, Robert Aldrich, Jack Garfein &#8230; and of course Guillermo del Toro&#8217;s <i>Nightmare Alley<\/i>, which Kim co-wrote with Del Toro &#8211; was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.criterion.com\/films\/35272-nightmare-alley\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">brought out by Criterion<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one&#8217;s been a long time coming! My friend, the great Kim Morgan, goes into the Criterion Closet. (If you&#8217;re not aware of what this is, &#8220;Closet Picks&#8221; is a series hosted by the Criterion Collection where celebrities, directors, artists, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=204309\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[600],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204311,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204309\/revisions\/204311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}