Bigger Than Life

Nicholas Ray, 1956

Spine #507

Picked by 3 guests

Drama

Criterion TMDB

Directed by Nicholas Ray

Written by Richard Maibaum, Cyril Hume

Cinematography Joseph MacDonald

Edited by Louis R. Loeffler

Cast James Mason, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau, Robert F. Simon, Christopher Olsen, Roland Winters, Rusty Lane, Rachel Stephens

Picked by

Ari Aster director

“Bigger Than Life, one of James Mason's best performances. It's very funny, it's very crazy. A great kind of alarmist pharmaceutical melodrama where by the end he's convinced that he's Abraham and he's going to kill his son. It's great.”

Ari Aster

Nicolas Winding Refn director

“And this is also great, I have this, but I just want to make a point that this is some absolute masterpiece by Nicholas Ray.”

Nicolas Winding Refn

Ryusuke Hamaguchi director

“[Translated] Nicholas Ray's Bigger Than Life. I love the way James Mason goes crazy in this. I'll take it.”

Ryusuke Hamaguchi