Jonathan Anderson

“Actually, this is a great one. This is My Beautiful Laundrette. When I first saw this, I became madly in love with Daniel Day-Lewis. This is a must.”

“Salò, I think I… has been a massive inspiration on me. I worked with this woman, Manuela Pavesi, and it was her favorite film. I think the wedding sequence can make you fall in love with irises. A must.”

“Every time I talk to Luca Guadagnino, he always tells me about this film, over and over again, and he has made me look at it in a completely different way.”

“Here’s– I’m going to do two at once. I’m going to do Room with a View, I think probably one of my all-time favorite films. I could watch it over and over again. I’ve never got bored of this film, so.”

“Burroughs. I had to watch this several times when I was doing research for Queer, for Luca, and there are characters within characters, and I think he is someone that, still today, we… we have so much to research into, as a person. So, this is definitely coming with.”

“Paris is Burning. Everyone has to watch this. Everyone has probably seen it, but it’s the most beautiful depiction of people. Every time I watch it, I find it so poetic, so emotional, but terribly funny, terribly, terribly funny. And the best one-liners that you will see in a documentary. This is, like, a genius film.”

“Trainspotting. Fantastic soundtrack. The best performances by all. It’s, like, visceral. It’s sort of… it will suck you in. I love this. It’s… I’m glad I saw that because I haven’t watched that in a while. So this is… Trainspotting. Classic.”

“Hairspray. Fantastic. I actually remember watching this in the middle of summer. It reminds me of summer, even though it’s not about summer. Dark. Silly. Funny. The best comedy. And it has Ricki Lake in it. And obviously Divine. But Ricki Lake is in it.”

“Sex, Lies, and Videotape. Yeah, this is one… This is another one to add to watch, because I feel like this is kind of a great combination for a weekend. It’s, like, all emotions.”

“And then Kubrick, because… this is the complete set, which is insane. I don’t know, when I first saw Eyes Wide Shut, I became obsessed by every painting in the… in their house. And it’s something that, every time you watch a Kubrick film, you find something in the corner of the film that you never saw before. So this is definitely a must.”

“So there’s another one. I’m just going to do box sets, I feel, because then you’ve got days to cover. This is a Pasolini box set, which is another great one. He has a way of showing a kind of curation of characters that I find is not seen today in cinema. It’s obsessive.”