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In a very interesting post posted on the website of the Oscar Academy, director Joseph Kosinski, behind the F1 film with Brad Pitt which has just released in theaters, delivered his five favorite films. Five films, and five sacred nuggets!
Singular trajectory than that of Joseph Kosinski, which has just signed the F1 film, currently indoors. If he had not launched himself in the making of films, he could have become a musician. “My grandfather was a jazz trumpeter. My pianist mother, and she made me play the piano at the age of three. I thought I will become saxophonist until I returned to university” he said In a post written on the Oscar Academy website.
It is also in this same post that he delivers the list of his five favorite films. “Films that made me the director I am” he writes.
“It was the first film that obsessed me”
He thus opens his list with the adventurers of the lost ark, which we hardly present. “I will start with the first film that I remember having seen in the cinema, the adventurers of the lost ark, at the age of six. What marked me most in this film was that Indiana Jones was also a professor at the university, and the cut between his flight from the plane with his friend and the snake and the teaching – you know, write to the board in his archeology course – was the first time that I have also been university and an intelligent man.
“For me, he is one of the greatest of all time”
Radical change of register with Shining, which he explains that Kubrick's masterpiece influenced him on the design of his previous film, Spiderhead, produced for Netflix. “Overlook is a character in this film. Obviously, Kubrick is the best to create this kind of hermetic world in which his stories can exist, and The Shining, I think, is one of the best examples. He started as a photographer, so his framing and the way he moves the camera in space have had a great influence on him, as well as me, for me, for this reason”.
“The purest form of cinema”
It is not very surprising to find in your blade roams Blade Runner by Ridley Scott; He who finally started his career as a filmmaker by just making a SF film, Tron: Legacy, but also Oblivion, three years later, with Tom Cruise.
“Images, photography and, interesting, another Harrison Ford film, which allows you to know who was one of my favorite stars when I was a child. But when I think of Blade Runner, I also think of the music. The electronic soundtrack of Vangelisinspired by Jazz Blues, which takes place in Los Angeles in 2019, is for me the purest form of cinema.
It is only music and images. I saw her on the big screen in 1992, when she came out – it was the first time I saw him on the screen – and I remember this experience perfectly. I think it is one of the biggest partitions of all time “.
“It is very difficult to explain why I see it again”
180 ° turn and rather surprising with its 4th film, since we go downright on a very great classic of Italian cinema; One of the many works revered by Martin Scorsese, moreover,: the Avventura de Michelangelo Antonioni.
“Avventura is a film of which it is very difficult to explain why I see him again, except that I am fascinated by his modernity, even if he is 60 years old. Antonioni was also obsessed with composition, architecture and sound, and he combined them like no one else does. These are so distinct films. I have always been attracted to architects who, when you see a scene. by them.
“This is one of those films that I can watch at any time”
His fifth and last favorite is, again, another very great classic of American cinema: the men of the president of Alan J. Pakula. The film on the Watergate scandal, which shaken the political foundations of the United States.
“Pakula, with [le directeur de la photographie] Gordon Willisis also a master of composition and framing, which I love. But with this film, the idea of making a spectacularly implying, committing and exciting film on two reporters in a editorial room is, I think, for any director, breathtaking to see how they were able to do this.
This is one of those films that I can watch at any time and that completely captivates me. I also like the time, because it corresponds to my birth, and I think there is a certain fascination to see the world, which it was at the time when you were created, and to see how far it seems distant from the world in which we live today “.
