Danny Boyle

“Bob Fosse, All That Jazz. So I just watched this again quite recently, actually. It’s a work of absolute genius, in my opinion. And if you want to look at where a lot of modern editing gets its ideas from, just look at the sequences of him taking the pills, which are spread throughout it. I think that’s a great movie. Great, great, great, great, great, great movie. So this is one I am taking home.”

“So they’ve got Anora, which… To my Shame, I hadn’t seen his other movies. And I went immediately after watching Anora, which I thought was just wonderful, and I went back to Florida Project, which is even more remarkable in a way. And I’d missed it the first time around. So apologies, Sean Baker, and chapeau.”

“They’ve got one of his other films here, which I am going to take, The Prince of Broadway, which I knew about, but I haven’t seen. So I’ll be taking both those, please, if I may.”

“I have to give a shout-out to a great and very, very underrated British director, Stephen Frears. Really one of our great craftsmen. And this is a film he made with John Cusack, Anjelica Huston, and Annette Bening: The Grifters. I think it’s based on a Jim Thompson novel or short story, and… who’s a great writer. Incredible. This, you’ve got to see this film for three sterling performances. You watch Annette Bening and you think, 'Oh my goodness me, what an actor.'”

“I was looking for Fish Tank. And there it is. So this is a British filmmaker, Andrea Arnold. If you don’t know her, you should see her work. True independent. Brilliant filmmaker. This is a wonderful film that she made. Michael Fassbender’s in it, and it’s partly about Essex, which is an area of the UK. And it has the most extraordinary skies. They’re so beautiful and it’s shot by Robbie Ryan... The casting that she does, the way she finds actors… remarkable.”

“To say that the Coen brothers have never made a better movie than this is not an insult. It is an extraordinary… It just shows you the talent that’s there, and you can see them learning their craft as they make it. So if you want to watch where it all began, then this is the one to start with: Blood Simple.”

“Two of the films that we saw while we were there was this: I Am Cuba, which is a staple and is recommended, and everybody should see it really.”

“This film is the film with the worst title, I think, probably imaginable. It’s called Memories of Underdevelopment, and it’s a film by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. When I saw this film, we were working on Trainspotting... And I stole, frame by frame, the last shot of this film for the last shot of Trainspotting. And if you happen to watch this movie... You’ll see the last shot of this film as it was intended to do, as it reflected the last shot of this film.”