Fun Fridays – Director’s Favourite Films – Atom Egoyan

Hello Film Doctor friends.

How was your working week?

This Friday the UK screens welcome a new release from Atom Egoyan (“Where the Truth Lies”, “The Sweet Hereafter”, “Chloe”), the Colin Firth / Reese Witherspoon-starring “Devil’s Knot”, and the Film Doctor team scouts for the Director’s cinema picks.

The Canadian Director first came to prominence in 1994, with “Exotica” , while 3 years later “The Sweet Hereafter” earned him 2 Oscar nominations. Although his latest title, “The Captive”, woke up to a fury of criticism when premiered at Cannes Film Festival last month, Egoyan’s preceding project, “Devil’s Knot” enjoys a successful slate of distribution deals for 16 territories.

His list of Favourite Films looks like this:

• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, dir. Stanley Kubrick)

• 8 1/2 (1963, dir. Federico Fellini)

• Bicycle Thieves (1948, dir. Vittorio de Sica) 

• Breathless (1960, dir. Jean-Luc Godard)

• The Godfather (1972, dir. Francis Ford Coppola)

• Metropolis (1927, dir. Fritz Lang)

• The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928, dir. Carl Th. Dreyer)

• Persona (1966, dir. Ingmar Bergman)

• Pulp Fiction (1994, dir. Quentin Tarantino)

• Vertigo (1958, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)

“Devil’s Knot” opens in UK  cinemas nationwide today, Friday 13th, 2014.