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“Something that I have never seen that I feel very guilty about which is the three colours trilogy my friend Andrew Stanton loves these films and he's been trying to get me to watch them for years and I have it so I'm gonna fix that now...”
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“Milos Forman, Loves of a Blonde. This is amazing. This is a simple, heartbreaking film, very, very lovely, well worth the see. Not a film a lot of people know about.”
“The Graduate, another amazing film, Mike Nichols. I started out as an editor when I went to film school... And there were a number of films that kind of blew my head open having to do with editing and the power of editing, and The Graduate was one of them.”
“Punch-Drunk Love, Paul Thomas Anderson. This is, I think it's in my top 5 movies of all time. I'm friends with Gary Rydstrom who was the sound designer on this... I love hearing things like that where the filmmakers are kind of thinking about ideas and expressing ideas that are kind of outside the bounds of the film itself.”
“Angel at My Table, I believe is originally made as a TV movie in Australia... It's a beautiful film. This is probably the most quoted movie in my household... I got to meet Jane Campion... It was maybe the most nervous I've ever been meeting a filmmaker because I just adore her so much.”
“Seconds, John Frankenheimer. This is an awesome film. I first saw this in film school... Rock Hudson, beautiful black-and-white photography by James Wong Howe and a lot of really innovative camerawork... It's essentially a feature-length Twilight Zone episode but shot really, really beautifully.”
“Another one of my probably top 5 favorite films, All That Jazz, Bob Fosse. This is an amazing film, also very 70s... This was one of the first films that really showed me the power of editing... To see the command that he had over filmmaking and editing and using it rhythmically the way he used dance and movement was really remarkable.”
