Fun Fridays – Director’s Top Films – Oliver Stone

Hi Film Folk!

The master of controversial subjects (just think of Natural Born Killers, Scarface or JFK) and three-time Oscar winner (Platoon, Midnight Express, Born on the Fourth of July), Oliver Stone has said to enjoy revisiting and watching movies 2-3 times.  In his list of recommendations you’d find the following mix:

• Treasure of Sierra Madre  (dir. John Huston, 1948)
• Casablanca (dir. Michael Curtiz, 1942)
• Gran Torino (dir. Clint Eastwood, 2008)
• A Clockwork Orange (dir. Stanley Kubrick, 1971)
• Easy Rider (dir. Dennis Hopper, 1969)
• Dragonwyck (dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1946)
• The Departed (dir. Martin Scorsese, 2006)
• Blue Velvet (dir. David Lynch, 1986)
• Trainspotting  (dir. Danny Boyle, 1996)
• Requiem for A Dream (dir. Darren Aronofsky, 2000)

Oliver Stone’s new film Savages is currently out in the cinemas.