Joanna Hogg

“I've been reading about Fellini's 8½ and I don't even know if there's a connection between what I'm doing and 8½ but I find there's something about and I did see 8½ there. That's an amazing edition of it. Just reading about the making of it and the design of it and that sometimes gives me a lot more ideas than actually watching the film itself. I really love that and I think yeah that's gonna have to be another one I take.”

“La strada I haven't seen for a long time. I'd love to have another look at that. I think I'm going through a bit of a Fellini phase.”

“I'm trying to get The Red Shoes out. The Red Shoes is, I don't know, maybe if I had to pick one film above all films, it would be The Red Shoes. This is reassuringly heavy so I think there must be a really good notebook in this one.”

“Bad Timing I had a look at maybe about a year ago. It's an incredible film talking about editing and rhythm. I think it's for me maybe his best film, if there's such a thing as a best film. I think it's one of his strongest films, more so for me than even Don't Look Now.”

“First All That Jazz which is one of my all-time favorite films. It's wonderful in every way. I mean it's got an incredible sense of rhythm in the way that it's edited, but it's also the musical numbers, it's the fact that it's autobiographical. It's sort of very present in the way for Bob Fosse. I'm going to have to take that. It's just I love it and I don't own the DVD and one of the things that I adore about Criterion DVDs... I love the notebooks that come with the DVDs.”

“The Age of Innocence, that's another one I'm going to take. The Age of Innocence is The Most Beautiful of Scorsese's films. I mean I love all of Scorsese's films but I particularly like the two films that are not typical of his body of works: The Age of Innocence and also New York, New York, which is one of my favorite musicals.”