Top 10s
Nicolas Winding Refn’s Top 10
Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn is the director of the Pusher Trilogy, Fear X, Bronson, Valhalla Rising, and Drive, for which he won the best director prize at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.
#1
Tokyo DrifterSeijun Suzuki
Unique, brilliant, fantastic! I love this movie!
#2
The Battle of Algiers Gillo Pontecorvo
I was twenty-four years old when I made my first film, Pusher (about the Danish drug underworld), and for it I stole everything I could, both visually and technically, from this film and Cannibal Holocaust.
#3
VampyrCarl Th. Dreyer
Vampyr has always reminded me of a mysterious dream I once had when I was very little. The film has always stayed with me. I watch it before I make every film, and yet it still remains a mystery to me.
#4
The Night of the HunterCharles Laughton
The Night of the Hunter is a perfect example of the strength of cinema, in which an image can say a thousand words, whereas in literature a word cannot show a thousand images.
#5
VideodromeDavid Cronenberg
This film is a great mixture of sex and violence.
#6
Flesh for FrankensteinPaul Morrissey
Flesh for Frankenstein is the only film I’ve ever wished that I had made.
#7
Sweet Smell of SuccessAlexander Mackendrick
In its perfect combination of directing, writing, cinematography, music, sound, and acting, this film is pure cinema.
#8
My Life as a DogLasse Hallström
I saw this film with my mother when I was very young. It’s the only movie aside from It’s a Wonderful Life during which I’ve cried because I was happy.
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