

Madonna and the Seven Moons (1945) – Arthur Crabtree.Went the Day Well? (1942) – Alberto Cavalcanti.Brief Ecstasy (1937) – Edmond T. Gréville.Shooting Stars (1928) – Anthony Asquith.

Ixt0UF4jnT- edgarwright February 19, 2021 For example Powell & Pressburger do not feature, as he's praised them on many occasions, so their work is taken as read. It must be stressed that this is a personal list of favourites and also, by his admission, incomplete. Here is the list he sent me, shared with his permission.

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Update: Edgar Wright has shared the full correspondence from Scorsese, and he’s also added one more to his list: Terence Fisher’s Spaceways. Rather this a list of his 50 favorites, which would certainly include the likes of Hitchcock and Powell & Pressburger among many others, this list is a fantastic deep dive with many films I imagine may not have come across your radar before.Ĭheck out the list below via Empire, with hat tip to No Film School. Spurred on by Edgar Wright’s request during quarantine for more films to devour, Scorsese sent the fellow filmmaker nearly 50 recommendations of British films, including many overlooked ones, revealed in 3-hour conversation that Wright had with Quentin Tarantino on the Empire podcast. It’s kinda been his whole thing for 50 years.” The latest proof of this life-long mission has arrived courtesy of a list of new film recommendations. He wants you to see movies, make movies, love movies, live movies. While his accurate comments have caused some backlash, our friends at Bright Wall/Dark Room put it succinctly, “Scorsese is a gate *opener* btw. As detailed in his brilliant new Harpers essay, Martin Scorsese is not only continuing to make masterpieces along with highlighting and preserving all corners of world cinema-he’s fighting tooth and nail for the art form itself as media conglomerates further infantilize the medium with four-quadrant, homogenized “content.”
