Amelia Dimoldenberg

“Fish Tank, Fish Tank! I've got to represent the Brits here. Andrea Arnold, wow, what an amazing director. I love so much of her work, and Fish Tank is such a brilliant film. I love the fact that the story behind the casting of this, that they just saw the lead actress just on the street or on a train station. I know that's a through line of Andrea Arnold's work, that a lot of her cast are street cast, so I'm excited to rewatch that.”

“The Beatles Hard Day's Night so how fun is it that like your favorite band then like make movies the thing I love about this film is like you kind of think maybe this is actually how they live in this like crazy Vortex of a world and you kind of you believe it even though it's totally obviously not true and the other reason I love this movie is it because I feel like it's the influence for one of my other favorite movies which is Spice World I think more pop stars and more bands should be ma...”

“12 Angry Men, one of the greatest movies of all time. So simple yet effective. The power of having a movie just basically in one room, and there's so much emotion and the heat of the room, and I feel like you really feel that energy. It's just such an interesting stylistic choice. So yes, 12 Angry Men.”

“All That Jazz. I thought that was where the song was from—it's not, that is Chicago, but to be honest that is what drew me in at first. I was like, 'Oh, I love that song All That Jazz.' I was really pleasantly surprised by this, if not a little shaken up by what happened. You can't really reveal anything in this as well, that's why it's kind of cool and I appreciate that.”

“The Worst Person in the World. When I watched it I felt like, ', this is what I've been yearning to watch,' that shows me something about love, about relationships, about what it means to be a woman falling in and out of love. To me, this felt like the rom-com I was looking for but yet is still not. I thought it was great. I love the ending, the ending is great. I loved it, great ending. I love how real this movie felt.”

“Portrait of a Lady on Fire. The thing that really draws me into cinema is just the chemistry between actors. That's actually also what I'm trying to do with my own work on Chicken Shop Date—I'm all about the chemistry, creating chemistry. That's what I think people really connect to in my work and that's what I connect to in other people's work. I just really thought it was such a great idea for a story about a woman who did not want to get married and then found love in her own way.”

“Then my sister actually told me to watch Petite maman and this is very interesting film and it uses magic realism really well in a very eerie yet beautiful way and I love that I love I love magic realism in a lot of movies and also I love watching French Cinema because it makes me feel like I'm smart so there you go this is this is going in there so...”

“I'm going in with another film I've never heard of before until my sister told me about Girlfriends. She was like, 'You need to watch Girlfriends because you love Frances Ha.' And I love Frances Ha, it's one of Noah Baumbach's, one of my favorite films ever. Love Greta Gerwig as just as much as a performer as I do as a director and apparently this film is one of the influencers of Frances Ha so I can't wait to watch this. Oh and it's got a female director, even better.”