Callum Turner

“Au Hasard Balthazar. I'm so sorry for anyone who speaks French and they had to listen to that, but this is about a donkey and it just follows this donkey and you really just fall in love with the journey and you and you want to look after the donkey. It's one of the most extraordinary movies I've ever seen.”

“Five Easy Pieces man this is my favorite film. I've got about five pictures of Jack Nicholson in my House. It's about a guy that he's on the run from himself and it's two completely different contrasting human beings when he goes home so you should watch that if you haven't watched that.”

“Mean Streets this is the movie that made me want to be an actor. I'm not even joking that improvised scene where he's like I went and bought this tie and Harvey Keitel is trying to get the money from De Niro. I watch that over and over. I still watch that and the music and the atmosphere and the energy and everything. This is pure.”

“This one, if you haven't seen any Dardenne brothers movies, which I'm sure you have, The Kid with a Bike. I watched that in the cinema when it came out and I was doing my first ever professional job and I watched that in Manchester in England and I just thought wow that's what I want to do.”

“The Cranes Are Flying. I'd seen I Am Cuba and Letter Never Sent and then my friend Mustafa the Poet recommended this to me. So this is going in for you and for me. It was part of my research too for Masters of the Air because I just watched all these war movies and Russian war movies.”

“Oh and Come and See. Yeah, holy... This is something. This is probably the craziest movie I've ever seen in my life. A knockout.”

“Naked, Mike Leigh's Naked. David Thewlis and I worked with him on my first film and obviously I was just like tell me all about Naked. He said he had that overcoat and was running around Soho for about eight months before they even started filming. But there's a speech about the universe and God and this mind-blowing and I think they did something like 57 takes.”

“The Leopard, probably the best movie I've ever seen in my life. And they dubbed everyone. I thought Burt Lancaster could speak Italian, I thought Alain Delon could speak Italian, they can't, they just dubbed them. I was so blown away by that. But just the pacing and the story, the surrender of the old guard for the new guard, it's really something else.”

“La strada I want to take because I spoke to James Gray for like 3 hours on the phone not so long ago and I hadn't seen that movie and it's his favorite movie, La strada. So thank you James. I'm going to read, I'm going to, I'm going to read this. Apparently it's a good book.”

“I would love to pick this one here because I've heard amazing things about Nothing but a Man and yeah I'd love to watch it.”

“I actually haven't dived in heavily to Agnès Varda. I changed the errors of my ways and I watched Cléo from 5 to 7. Oh my God, it's like every frame is a painting. Just such a beautiful, beautiful movie and then I watched Vagabond and Le Bonheur. I don't know if my French is any good but the movies are fantastic. I mean look at that, even that is so beautiful.”