Viggo Mortensen’s Closet Picks 

Yeah, I really want to see someone do this with jidaigeki and chanbara films.

He obviously promoted his own film. In a subtle way.

​@@CountOrlok22agreed 😊

@@CountOrlok22 Yes!

@@MrRazorblade999 He's a classy guy.

My family largely originates from rural areas and I grew up watching westerns with them while hearing commentary on the ability of the riders on screen and even on the horses' breeds, weight, hairstyling... Lol.

@@gmenezesdea That's so funny. I thought I was a western fan but I'm a lightweight haha.

@@gmenezesdea you must be a fan of Red Dead Redemption 2 and their horse… realism.

​@@ErenTheWarcriminalI haven't had the chance to play rdr yet. I'm a pc gamer but sadly my pc doesn't meet the minimum requirements.

​@@saintsalieriwhat's funny is their enjoyment of westerns is very much linked to watching the horses and cattle. If the horses aren't good-looking they'll often complain "the director couldn't even bother to pick a decent horse" I don't know much about the animals but the experience certainly helped make me a huge fan of Westerns.

Except for McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1972).

McCabe and Mrs. Miller is post-spaghetti western, and it's from 1971

@@Anthony-hu3rj That can be the final film of the course, screened as a bridge to next semester’s course: “The Revisionist Western.”

Well, there’s a lot more to that era than just John Wayne.

@@bobcobb36542 out of the 12 movies he picked star John Wayne. But go off, King.

Love this idea

Word. This is necessary.

Yes! We would all profit from Viggo continuing to share his own working & studied knowledge. Please do this, Criterion.

I’d like to visit him at his home.

And art, books, poetry, music, horses, and so much more. He's got many interests.

I don't really follow celebrity podcasts but I would definitely listen to a short podcast series with him just talking about his passions.

First 10 episodes will be exclusively about Young Guns 2.

*..And Wake Up. ..And Go to Bed.

This is what I like to see when I get off

Indeed!

Such a 🍬😎❤️

What a treat. Dude's a beast. Some day my script will make it. Many great directors have seen it. Never stop trying.

Let's make it happen.

It never too late to become a great director

@@jibinpk5974 YES!!!!!!!

Very well said!

Yes please

Yes!!

@@magicknight13 well, you do have "crash" already. i'd like to see "maps to the stars" get the criterion treatment.

@@marcyfan-tz4wj I assumed they meant picking movies, not having his movies here. He already has 6 in their collection :P

I believe he already did do this.

He needs an Oscar. How many times does he have to get nominated to get it?

Good move you won't be disappointed they are all cracking films.....😊

You'll love it!

You won't be disappointed.

he actualy had Aragorns voice be dif when he was known as strider u can hear the dif.

I always loved his work, but when I watched The Boys from Brazil I was amazed!

I think this is the greatest performance captured on film Also see Dryer's Day of Wrath for another masterpiece

JofA is a great film which Viggo loves but he is picking westerns and JofA is not a western...simples🎭

Its obvious he's focusing on westerns here, maybe he's doing one right now. Dreyers Joan is probably my all time favorite film, I'd love to hear his lecture on it! Falconetti gives the greatest performance ever and never made another film because she thought they'd all be as stressful! She was working with the strict disciplinarian Carl Dreyer!

Thanks for mentioning that. I love that film but didn’t know about his talk. I’ll look for it.

@@f.w.2054 Apparently there''s an interview with Falconetti's daughter that denies Dreyer's treatment of her on set, actually there are lots of myths arround it that it's hard to know which one to believe.

Fantastic movie! I'm glad to see someone give it a mention.

@@parisgreen4600 it’s a great movie, I personally think it’s viggos greatest performance ever, probably my favorite that Sean Penn directed as well, I looked for it on dvd for years and I finally found it at movie stop, I let a friend borrow it and never seen it again but I’ve watched it dozens of times, one of my biggest dreams is to be a screenwriter, I got all these movies in my head but I’ve never tried writing them down but movies like “The Indian Runner” are the types of movies I want to write with characters that stick with you, the fact that Sean took that story in that song and turned it into a movie is just brilliant, he’s a great actor as well, “At Close Range” is my favorite movie he’s acted in, another movie I found at movie stop, loaned out and never seen again lol, I’m building my collection back up now though, been finding some really good movies at goodwill, I would absolutely love to get to pick through the criterion closet, I’m so jealous of these people lol, anyway I could talk about movies for hours, have a great weekend my friend, God Bless!!!

@@parisgreen4600 I made a long reply to your comment earlier but RU-vid keeps making my comments disappear for some reason but yeah I absolutely love “The Indian Runner” such a great movie, have a great weekend my friend, God Bless!!

I recently got The Indian Runner on blu ray and finally watched it and it’s awesome?😎🕺

I feel like he’s been into westerns for a long time ha!

Check out out 'The Man who Shot Liberty Valance' 'My Darling Clementine' and 'The Ox-Bow Incident' for three great ones. Each a little different than the ''conventional'' formula's of westerns.

Viggo Mortensens have been into westerns for a long time, and starred in a few. Not sure what you mean by "as he too enters his western phase" He is brilliant in the modern western Hidalgo for example, aired in 2004 I think it was. He is also quite the accomplished horserider, both with modern and western saddles.

Next you should get into the film noir flicks of the 40s and 50s of you haven't yet.

I'm kind of surprised Viggo wasn't aware of Peck's prowess as a bad guy or in Westerns. Peck is one of the all-time best! "The Gunfighter" was outstanding, as were "Yellow Sky" and "The Bravados," as far as solid stories and Peck tackling more complex characters. None of those 3 Peck characters were really "good guys." And if Viggo doesn't think Peck can pull off being a bad guy, he needs to check Peck out in "Moby Dick" and "The Boys from Brazil."

I guess that, If Viggo and Anya Taylor-Joy did a movie together, it would be the highest earning film in Argentinian history.

@@jmcheznever been to argentina but it’d be cool if they did a Argentinian biopic epic with all the Argentinian Hollywood big names the way they did with Irish actors in Michael Collins for example

Same! 😂

The man spits. We can't help ourselves

Same here Viggo fan from India

That's it. I'm ded.

Screams in Aragorn

He kicked the helmet and then pooped himself. That’s the real trivia.

Did you know the blade the Uruk-Hai threw at him was a real sword? He didn’t know this and deflected the blade in one take by pure luck!

bravo vince

It's a club

Unless your Viggo

Great choice, great film. Really wish we could've gotten the next chapter of Nikolai's story based on where it ended in Eastern Promises, but alas.

Cronenbergs never done a Western lol

Hidalgo ❤

Boetticher rules

Yes! “Yellow Sky” is my favorite Gregory Peck western, one of my favorites of his films. I love William Wellman. He directed my favorite western, “Westward the Women.” And he was one of the greatest pre-code directors. “Wild Boys of the Road” and “Other Men’s Women” are phenomenal, and of course “Public Enemy,” “Night Nurse,” and many others. 👏👏👏

Wild Bill Wellman could tackle any genre with success! His versatility put him on the wrong side of the auteur critics like Andrew Sarris and Pauline Kael! Yellow Sky is fabulous!

Good film, good cast, good soundtrack. Looks like a western but it's set in Australia so I don't know if it qualifies.

​@@nicknewman7848It qualifies

Agreed about Gregory Peck! William Wellman also directed my favorite western, “Westward the Women” and another top favorite, coincidentally starring Gregory Peck, “Yellow Sky.”

...and he was thoroughly bad in "Duel in the Sun" w/Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, & Lionel Barrymore.

I'm baffled as to why Criterion hasn't released Winchester 73. I heard they teamed with Scorsese to remaster it YEARS AGO. Where's the disc already?

@@ReachForTheSkyVideo it would look great remastered - the existing version is very grainy

He's also doing this to promote his own... 😉

@@ariescustom Exactly

Green Book is a pretty unjustly maligned film, I think. It's one of the best comedies of recent times and a great movie about friendship, anchored by two amazing performances and a hilarious script. Also kind of a crypto-Christmas classic. I think people overburden it with the task of offering a final historical summation of racism in America, or something. Your options when making a film are to create a diverse cast and portray racism as the story requires, create a diverse cast and pretend racism doesn't exist, or create a homogenous cast and pretend it doesn't exist (the most common Hollywood approach until recently). I can't see why the first option isn't the preferable one.

He's a crackling live wire in Sean Penn's debut film as a director, Indian Runner. One of his greatest performances. Incandescent.

@@saintsalieriYour comment has made me curious to watch it now...

thx

I wouldn't call a 3-hour movie a 'little something'. The Searchers is exhausting.

@@tygerstripes3752 Agreed. I thought I was quoting Viggo from this clip .

Not to mention Dan Duryea!

@@f.w.2054 This was my first film with him in it so I'll have to check out more. I was sold on him being a cowboy.