Jude Law

“I was hoping I would find a Tarkovsky so Stalker, I think Stalker was my introduction to Andrei Tarkovsky. It was my discovery of stillness in film, and Andrei Rublev of course, but that's a real favorite of mine and I haven't seen it in years so I'm happy to have found it.”

“This holds a very special place in my heart, Purple Noon or Plein Soleil, which was the first realization of The Talented Mr. Ripley. I was recommended this by Anthony Minghella. It's very different to the Talented Mr. Ripley that I made with Minghella. If anything, to choose Delon to play Ripley himself, and they don't change it from the book that he's a painter in the film, what I did we made him a musician. It's got lots of twists and turns, the same color blue in the sea as our one.”

“This is a wonderful film. I was turned onto this by another filmmaker who wanted me to see it as inspiration for a film I made with him, The Wages of Fear. This film is about men in desperate, desperate situations who will do anything for money, anything to survive, and they go on the darkest, most dangerous journey and it's just brilliant. It's moving and incredibly, shamefully I don't know any of these other films but this one is brilliant.”

“Oh this is an interesting film. I remember seeing this in the '80s, my mom showed me this, Local Hero. It was an interesting time, this and My Beautiful Laundrette were two films I remember seeing. This felt very much on my doorstep, it felt like a Britain that I knew, set in Scotland. And then this incredible Performance at the end by Burt Lancaster who shows up like a knight in shining armor. That's a wonderful film.”

“This was a film that introduced me to Bob Hoskins who I luckily got to work with, Neil Jordan's Mona Lisa, which again at a very formative time in my life showed a side of London that I sort of saw and felt around me but hadn't necessarily seen on film. Bob Hoskins demonstrating his brilliant ability to be incredibly tough and yet with this incredible heart of gold. Kathy Tyson gives a great Performance and there's a great supporting role by Michael Caine.”

“One of my favorite films. This film really has stuck with me since being shown it by my mom when I was gosh, very young, maybe 12 or 13, The Night of the Hunter. It's a fable, it's a terrifying nursery rhyme that literally by the end halfway through sort of dips into the fantasy of a child. The most incredible Performance of Robert Mitchum. One image that always sticks to my mind is him going into a strip joint, puts his hand in his pocket and his flick knife appears through his trousers.”