Cillian Murphy

“I actually watched this movie on Criterion Channel relatively recently. Rosetta by the Dardenne brothers. They’re these just tremendous Belgian brothers that make these beautiful, compassionate film about, I guess, Real Life. And this is a film about a young girl who’s living in, like, a caravan park, and her mom’s an alcoholic, and she’s just trying to hold everything together and she eventually gets a job working in a waffle stall... She’s magnificent in this, so much respect to her.”

“This is, again, another– These are quite formative films for me. This is a film that I watched when it came out in the cinema. A film by Michael Haneke... This is called Code Unknown. I didn’t quite know what I was watching at the time. Juliette Binoche is the main character in it. But it’s kind of fragmented storytelling. The opening sequence of this movie you will never forget. It’s this huge, long one take. It’s, like, there’s heavy themes in there, like race and immigration. But it’s magn...”

“So this movie, La piscine. This movie will make you want to move to France. Certainly at the beginning. The beautiful thing about this film is it’s all about what… kind of what isn’t said, and, like, all the subtext and all the energies that are happening between the characters. By the end of the movie, you will not want to move to France.”

“Maybe everybody picks Cassavetes. Now, this is very special to me, because in, like, the early 2000s... I went out and I bought this collection and, over a Weekend, myself and my wife, we watched every single film on this. I mean, the standout movie for me is A Woman Under the Influence... I have two of these. So I don’t really need a third, but it had a huge influence then on me, once I discovered him, as it does on everybody who discovers Cassavetes.”

“So, look at this. This is absolutely a thing of beauty. So this is The Wes Anderson Archive. So it’s ten films over 25 years. I mean, it could not be more Wes Anderson. It’s absolutely a beautiful thing. During Covid, my kids were just getting into movies and we watched every single one of Wes Anderson’s movies. Can I have this? Yes! I don’t know if it’ll fit in the bag.”