“I have to find where will I find The Night Porter? Oh, got it. This—oh, I like the cover. Yeah, it's a beautiful cover. A new one. So I think we have to start with that just because I don't have that on Blu-ray. When was the last time you watched The Night Porter? Very long time ago.”
“Room with a View, which was one of the first—I worked for Merchant Ivory in my youth and it still holds up so amazingly well, that film. I saw it recently and Howard's End too. They're both really beautiful. They're much more kind of subversive than you end up thinking they are.”
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“Oh, that's a good one. Oh, this is a whole—this is If.... Wonderful. Oh yeah, wonderful film. Oh, that's great. I loved that. Yeah. Do you want that? One of them, yeah.”
“I should probably not admit to not having seen this film, but I have never seen Ivan's Childhood. Trouble with Tarkovsky, I always fall asleep. I think that's all right to fall asleep in Tarkovsky. I mean, that's what I've been told. You wake up and it's still going on and you know it's still—you fall asleep and then you wake up and it like invades your Dreams.”
“Have you ever seen this film, Charlotte? Ratcatcher. Lynne Ramsay's British film. It's beautiful. Beautiful. She is great. When I was dreaming of being a filmmaker, I always used to watch Ratcatcher in the hope that I would be like Lynne Ramsay one day.”
“And you're not going to take Weekend? No, I got it. You gave it to me. You insisted I see it. This is a really good film. It's a lovely film. You should try and catch that one.”
“Watership Down, which I'm very pleased that Criterion released. Have you ever seen Watership Down? Oh yeah. Existential agony of life played by rabbits. Yeah, all right. Can't beat it.”
“Black Narcissus. Definitely one of my all-time favorites. Have you seen Black Narcissus? Yes, I have. Incredible. They did it so well, didn't they? Just incredible. Yeah, so much like repression bursting from every frame.”
“Bergman Island, which I have, but I went to Bergman's island. We showed 45 Years at a little tiny Festival on his island and it was incredible. You stay in this little kind of guest House attached to his House and you can walk around and you can see his desk and they show you like his scribbles on the wall and all kinds of things. It was just amazing.”
“One of my favorite British films, Sunday Bloody Sunday. Very good film. That's a beautiful film. Beautiful film. And so crazily modern. It's almost like amazing. I'll take that again. That's an amazing, just incredible film.”
