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Edgar Wright

British film director of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and Baby Driver.

10 things

Blow OutOther Brian De Palma

loved

Blow Out is certainly one of De Palma’s finest.

Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Edgar Wright, the entry for Blow Out.

2011-09-27·criterion.com ↗

BrazilOther Terry Gilliam

loved

When I first saw Brazil in the late ’80s, it hit me like a truck. It was such a powerful, bold vision, so joyous in its escapism and so crushing in its ultimate nihilism, that it left my teenage mind in tatters.

Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Edgar Wright, the entry for Brazil.

2011-09-27·criterion.com ↗

The Discreet Charm of the BourgeoisieOther Luis Buñuel

loved

First Luis Buñuel’s Un chien Andalou and L’age d’or, but then later, my favorite film of his, the 1972 masterpiece The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.

Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Edgar Wright, the entry for The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.

2011-09-27·criterion.com ↗

Eyes Without a FaceOther Georges Franju

loved

Years later, I saw Eyes Without a Face and called my dad immediately. I told him the crucial fact he’d been missing, the actual name of the greatest horror film he had ever seen. I then agreed with him that, yes, it was a quite extraordinary film.

Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Edgar Wright, the entry for Eyes Without a Face.

2011-09-27·criterion.com ↗

HeadOther Bob Rafelson

loved

Head is my favorite film that stars a musical artist, by some degree.

Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Edgar Wright, the entry for Head.

2011-09-27·criterion.com ↗

Le samouraïOther Jean-Pierre Melville

loved

Le samouraï is a film I return to again and again.

Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Edgar Wright, the entry for Le samouraï.

2011-09-27·criterion.com ↗

WalkaboutOther Nicolas Roeg

loved

Walkabout is cinema as poetry.

Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Edgar Wright, the entry for Walkabout.

2011-09-27·criterion.com ↗

Two-Lane BlacktopOther Monte Hellman

loved

Instead, for the eleventh movie in my top ten, I would like to include a film that has become something of an intangible Magic Eye picture for me: Monte Hellman’s Two-Lane Blacktop. There is no movie that I have watched more often in an attempt to unpeel and unravel it.

Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Edgar Wright, the entry for Two-Lane Blacktop.

2011-09-27·criterion.com ↗

A Hard Day’s NightOther Richard Lester

liked

Head is my favorite film that stars a musical artist, by some degree. And yes, that includes the brilliant A Hard Day’s Night.

Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Edgar Wright, the entry for Head.

2011-09-27·criterion.com ↗

Peeping TomOther Michael Powell

liked

I had seen Peeping Tom two or three times before but finally watched it on the big screen when I was working in its locale. Michael Powell’s film had always haunted and intrigued me, but seeing the streets that I traversed every day on-screen from fifty years earlier had a darkly powerful effect on me.

Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Edgar Wright, the entry for Peeping Tom.

2011-09-27·criterion.com ↗

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