St. Vincent’s Closet Picks

The musician shares her love for THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT and its decadent drama, praises Nicole Kidman’s hilariously psychotic performance in TO DIE FOR, and talks about the intimate dream state of BRAND UPON THE BRAIN!
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[@TheHamAndEggsGreen]

Love her choosing the random film at the end, such a great idea!

[@thirdegreesmirk8838]

can't remember who, but someone else started it a few videos back

[@MarcCardenas]

I remember Molly Ringwald did it last. This should be tradition.

[@TTM9691]

Molly Ringwald did that and now St. Vincent! (maybe someone else has as well?) Anyways, everyone should do that at the end!

[@oliviahillestad1718]

pretty sure Dan Levy did it too but I’m not sure

[@Funkyfanfare-py4uh]

@@thirdegreesmirk8838Pauline Chalamet is the first person I remember doing it

[@Melancthon7332]

Nearly perfect freeze frame at 1:31

[@Armakk]

In the closet, the filmmakers tell stories and the musicians just go full melodrama... as the gods intended.🙌🔥

[@reesespeanutbuttercups7584]

fuck yeah her music is so cinematic. The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant is exactly like her first album.

[@LukePlissken]

Going to put that on later with that in mind.

[@iwashere368]

The bitter tears of petra von kant is so st vincent coded

[@ejparas8492]

did y’all listen to “all born screaming” yet? it’s amazing! I think my favorite St. Vincent album now, that first listen just gobsmacked me. not surprising in the slightest that Annie Clark is a cinephile with taste and has such distinct stories & connections with film

[@palmerlp]

“To Die For” is one of those quintessential 90’s indie-boom movies that is so subversive and yet so expertly made that it’s hard to imagine anything like it being made today.

[@saintsalieri]

I just watched it after it's recent release and it felt a bit tame and obvious.

[@avedic]

I'll have to check it out. I'm a HUGE Gregg Araki fan.....The Doom Generation and Nowhere are perfect. There's something I love about a certain time of indie subversive weirdo movies from the 90s.... I've never even heard of To Die For tho.

[@NickPiers]

So, I'll be honest. I'm not big into music, so I'd never hear of St Vincent until this video. But now I'm watching music videos on her channel and goddamn, I'm digging it.

[@ladylordeve]

You can feel her picks in all of her music and she's releasing a new album so I can't wait to see the world she'll bring next

[@Paithagoras__]

Welcome to the club!

[@user-kv2tj4du8p]

she's amazing! a total original! welcome.

[@robertroman6214]

The Party is one of my favorites. Worth listening to if you haven't.

[@SleepingHowl]

Annie is a absolute diamond.

[@The_Reality_Filter]

she's the epitome of privately educated white privilege...hardly the struggling artist with a multi millionaire Daddy hiding in the wings.

[@snicker576]

She should introduce herself as Annie. A little off-putting that she introduces herself as St. Vincent lol

[@84paratize]

...of the night

[@The_Reality_Filter]

@@snicker576 Daddy works in "Corporate Tax Administration" in other words he's very very very rich....Poor little Annie, the struggle was so real!

[@MothGirl007]

@@snicker576 Pretentious, for real.

[@mildrumpus]

I'm absolutely SHOCKED that she did not pick up a David Lynch title, if for no other reason just to talk about it. She's a big fan.

[@georgerussell9525]

I get it, but I'm glad she chose Guy Maddin.

[@Leo-sd3jt]

That's probably why since she was taking stuff that she didn't already have. If she's a big fan of Lynch then it stands to reason that she probably already owns his stuff. Especially if she used to shop at Kim's back when it was still on St. Mark's Place.

[@caseyaulbach7693]

These videos are condensed heavily. I have noticed in several closet videos that the person choosing will have 2-3 films in their hand that they didn't talk about. Criterion probably does it for accessibility which is a shame because I would happily watch 30+ minute Criterion haul videos.

[@Leo-sd3jt]

@@caseyaulbach7693 that’s a good point. We should all leave comments asking for the videos to be longer if possible. It’ll save them editing time

[@MyAladdinSane]

​@@caseyaulbach7693If they've got something to say about the films they picked, I really think we ought to hear it - otherwise cutting is fine, the picks aren't interesting in and of themselves.

[@NickPiers]

I feel like everyone who visits the closet should do one pick like she did at the end. Just spin around and point to a random film on the shelf and take it. Let random chance pick just one movie for you. What a genuinely great idea.

[@caseyaulbach7693]

Love her music. This is the Criterion closet cross-over I didn't ask for but I definitely needed!

[@SaintMartins]

Every guest should be asked to do a "blind buy choice" as their final pick. That's how you break out of your comfort zone and discover something new.

[@warlockofwordschannel7901]

Amazing picks, great energy to St, Vincent. Loved her David Byrne collabs!

[@tomasandrew9354]

Oooh, if she had just chosen Todd Haynes’s “Safe,” it would’ve been perfect along Waters, Almodóvar, Fassbinder and Gus Van Sant!

[@hayleyanna2625]

Such a good film!

[@augopen]

Or anything with Isabell Huppert

[@jeranjed]

In was also screaming todd haynes!

[@augopen]

@@jeranjed and Haneke

[@_Grimblewedge_]

Or Velvet Goldmine...

[@1977Suspiria]

Dazed & Confused is one of those films where I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't love it. It's so much fun. The Bitter Tears Of Petra von Kant is far & away my favourite Fassbinder, it's so good.

[@ItsYourDistraction]

Absolutely perfect picks.

[@JustSomeCanadianGuy]

To Die For needs a resurgence. It’d click SO much with audiences today!!! God that’s such a great movie.

[@vittoriostoraro]

Weak and disappointing.

[@Melancthon7332]

It is relevant af

[@jamespriest9658]

I could listen to Annie talk until the end of time. It's the passion and openness to her heart and soul. Plus she's just so damn cute.

[@stevenhiggins906]

I remember seeing her when she had curly hair...supporting The National. She's so good

[@commonwunder]

Damaged people are fascinating... what a mundane yet unchaotic world it would be without them.

[@beccaandrews3160]

Fabulous! Wonderful choices, knew she'd go for those ❤ great idea of the random pick at the end, agree it should be a regular fixture 😅

[@snowymatrix]

St Vincent is an island in the Caribbean and it appears a rather vampiric looking woman! :D

[@GloveBunniesVideos]

"Women on the Verge..." is a fantastic pick.

[@LinouGertz]

Great pics! Hope this means we will get "The Nowhere Inn" in the collection!

[@sophierios7532]

so much respect for picking Trainspotting and Dazed & Confused, two of my all time faves

[@captainstrangiato961]

Big W on the Akerman boxset

[@ryandavis280]

St vincent in the criterion collection? What a dream come true!

[@breh9243]

Yay new films ill check out! I loved Chloe in the afternoon, she has great taste.

[@moetheroe7338]

To Die For is a masterpiece ❤️

[@davidrohr6316]

I adore how when she mentions Paranoid by Black Sabbath, she clearly unconsciously air guitars the main riff

[@jamesgwarrior1981]

She’s just all around Badass/cool

[@tonyd6500]

St Vincent is so cool! I love her enthusiasm and physicallness!!!!!✌️❤️

[@GrantKanigan]

The “blind pick” at the end is such a good idea

[@jamiehammond493]

To Die For and Nicole Kidman's tremendous performance do not get enough attention! Thanks for showing some love!👏

[@agbowes1129]

Ok, I haven’t seen ANY of these. I will watch them ALL.

[@JamesMerchant1]

What a great surprise pick with Diamonds of the Night! Great choices overall too

[@nathan-wk7bx]

i love you so much annie clark

[@heynowls3058]

Dazed & Confused! A forever re watchable. Good choices…

[@andrewmilesbroughton8222]

Surrounded by masterpieces! The pressure the pressure!!

[@vikram1477]

Impeccable taste as expected ! Love her!

[@DerekPower]

Fifteen years ago, she signed my CDs commenting on how similar we are in terms of age. The autographs reflect this conversation =D

[@AestheticOfTheImage]

She is ADORABLE!

[@VanessaButtino]

I worship this woman ❤ (and her taste in film)

[@td8he6cc2j]

great picks, but I wish she didn't pretend like she didn't know where "The Bitter Tears..." was at the shelf ;)

[@gussygoro2469]

So much credit where it’s due here. I would’ve taken over that entire closet.

[@christianevangelista]

Always class 👏🏽

[@connerwood7969]

Thank you fate! Diamonds of the Night needs to be talked about more.

[@chiefchimp2789]

I don't remember her ever referring to herself as St. Vincent, usually she says Annie. The last song in Dazed is "Slow Ride" by Foghat, if I'm remembering this correctly.

[@tseyangou7220]

She'll love "Diamonds of The Night" for sure :)), cause I freaking love it ^^!!!

[@LadyAmerican]

When St. Vincent chooses and describes her feels on To Die For beginning at 1:58, I felt that. LOL!!!

[@jiquenohnson]

Diamonds of the night is such a good blind pick. Unbelievable film

[@udovelvet]

Wow, looked up trailer for Diamonds of the night. It looks like a must see.

[@vinayakbendre8552]

Great collection ❤

[@trillioncrowns]

This is my dream woman personality and looks

[@ruling528]

You're obviously a lesbian!

[@johnta17]

I remember Kim's Video. What a classic place to find obscure stuff before the internet.

[@HerbTheriault]

Brand Upon The Brain! Excellent choice, and reminds me that it's been a while since I've seen it.

[@Anson120]

I am still waiting for criterion to release "Weekend at Bernies". So amazing. LOL. But really. I love that film. McCarthy surprised me on that one.

[@FramesPerSecond]

Never heard of her before. What genre of music does she do?

[@bradleypritchard5196]

Female trouble is a W

[@MonkeyspankO]

Fassbinder is just beyond words. Its crime he's only known in parts of modern Germany and among film snobs. You have to watch his entire catalog at least once in your life. Obviously St.Vincent knows movies, I wasn't even a little surprised.

[@marknewbold2583]

It's incredible that someone with such a chaotic personal life made masterpiece after masterpiece year after year

[@MonkeyspankO]

@@marknewbold2583 There's something about the "troubled" artist, whether you're talking about Rainer or Annie

[@mrgonzale0978]

pedro Almodovar is a genius. also every video I seen so far on this channel nobody picks up Brazil.

[@juanaltredo2974]

you know who really is a genius? the guy who made my coffee today, I mean if we're going to throw around the word genius like toilette paper to Almodovar, then my barista is also a genius

[@NickPiers]

@@juanaltredo2974 Wow, dude. Who pissed in your cornflakes this morning?

[@juanaltredo2974]

@@NickPiers I hope nobody, I ate them with such force and delight!

[@wirmbeck]

It’d be cool if @criterion to invite me, a normal dedicated lover of film, into the Criterion Closet for a rummage and video. Think about it, Criterion!

[@bryter00]

Diamonds Of The Night - a pretty good random pick.

[@scottboswell6406]

As a straight man, I agree with many of her choices, hahaha!! Great films are great films. The best part of the closet is when people pick films that should be rewatched and remembered, like "To Die For". I could never do the blind pick, I'm too much of a control freak, lol!!

[@ryanrudolph5667]

St. Vicent needs to be in movies, just that kind of face that could literally do anything.

[@MsManuales]

Love her energy

[@snicker576]

It makes me anxious and uncomfortable. Crazy eyes out in full force

[@juanaltredo2974]

@@snicker576 she's demented, but her unhinged energy speaks to typical viewers of this channel so shes almost universally praised, which is kind of funny to be fair. W're living in a world where people like her rule the thinking of the hoi polloi

[@claraclonk]

@@snicker576is it your job to comment weird things relentlessly about annie like 😭😭 if someone being enthusiastic and happy makes you feel anxious maybe you should try therapy because that is not normal! ❤

[@snicker576]

@@claraclonk It's not my job, just a hobby

[@johnnyosgrillhideaway7247]

St. Vincent. Beautiful.

[@marjoriegrant8100]

I was so hoping that she'd pick Harold & Maude, BUT the choices she made were perfect.

[@Busha69]

Oh, Diamonds of the Night. It's a Czechoslovak movie and it's very trippy.

[@esteeb67]

This was a fun one. Some films I have not seen, so I will have to check them out.

[@bubbaritz83]

What in the "Orphan cosplay"?!

[@alexyliu8455]

wow seeing Annie starstruck is uncommon bc that's how i look at her most of the times

[@therealmisterap]

The composure of the people who get to go into the criterion closet. I'd lose my shit and have a panic attack.

[@hashtagdag]

A Czech New Wave classic! She capped it off with Jan Němec's Shadows of the Night from 1964.

[@buddysage4780]

Do people still have VCRs?

[@jockejocke1]

I have one in my closet, have been meaning to hook it up once again but I never get around to it. I have maybe 200-300 VHS tapes with stuff recorded off television. Would love to go through it all but like I said, I never get around to it 😵‍💫

[@Goatchild90]

She rules, absolute Queen

[@ruling528]

Shut it, Jameel!

[@miguelon1983]

I love this woman

[@Melancthon7332]

These movie pics are one thousand percent Annie (A tiny lil bit too bad there are no Disney films in the closet)

[@OSUBuckly]

Wall-E is in the Criterion Collection

[@Melancthon7332]

@@OSUBuckly I didn't realize! Though I brought it up because her album Actor is heavily influenced by classic Disney orchestral scores.

[@jerrymackowski1210]

Sweet Dee needs to do a take on this.

[@Benjamin_Bratten]

a real talent and very charming/funny to boot.

[@nicox8913]

Utterly charmed.

[@mikesilva3868]

Great video 😊

[@drjitters]

Brand Upon the Brain! In the bag! Love Guy Maddin...

[@syntheticsilkwood2206]

Diamonds of the night is so beautiful and harrowing

[@lucianoe.m.918]

st vincent: as a 50 year old gay man, i...

[@thecinematicmind]

Nailed it.

[@matthewpaul6904]

I second that comment!

[@sjbang5764]

Amazing!

[@jeremyhawkins5278]

Diamonds of the night is a *great* random choice.

[@rustyshackelford934]

Tuesday’s gone plays when the party is dying. Slow ride by foghat plays as they ride into the sun! Inexcusable!

[@sjbang5764]

Chantal Akerman is responsible for one of the colossal films residing in the universe, that being Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

[@De_liebste_un_beste_Mensch]

Schlock

[@HyunaTheHyena]

Omg I absolutely love her

[@MyAladdinSane]

I think I have a firm grasp on "gay" as a personal or aesthetic quality (not necessarily present, but often coinciding, with homosexuality). "Queer" still baffles me, though. Apparently, "code-switching" is part of it. I'll have to check out 'Petra von Kant'.

[@unkindestcut]

My understanding is that “queer” is an umbrella term inclusive of the entire spectrum of identities that are not straight and/or not cisgender.

[@marcocoutino2635]

THE TASSSSTEEEEE!!!!

[@tyc9909]

Never realised how much she looks like Lea seydoux wow

[@maxfli95]

legendary.

[@StefReviews]

new album kicks much ass!!!!

[@JeewanthaBandara]

She's so extra. I love it

[@juliocesarpereira4325]

I watched three films she chose direced by Almodovar, Gus Van Sant and Richard Linklater.