Denis Villeneuve’s Four Favorite Films
Letterboxd asked Dune director Denis Villeneuve what his four favorite films were and he cheated and listed five (including 2001 and Blade Runner).
First of all, who knows how long Blade Runner has been on his top 5 (or even 10 or 20 list) but getting to do a sequel of one of your favorite films has to be unbelievably rewarding as a director.1
And I’m going to cheat as well here and list a number of other films that Villeneuve has publicly praised, courtesy of this piece from IndieWire: Vertigo, Children of Men, Downsizing (?), There Will Be Blood, Seven Samurai, The Beguiled, Jaws, and three Nolan films (Dunkirk, Inception, Tenet).
- I was trying to think of what might be the equivalent to this for me and all I could come up with is getting hired to reboot Suck or something.↩
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I find Downsizing underrated, really liked it.
100%. I think Downsizing is a modern masterpiece. The mileage it gets out of its incredibly out-there premise is remarkable: the number of issues it addresses, the depth of moral exploration it manages, the character arc(s!) it describes.
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