Brady Corbet
Brady Corbet is a director, screenwriter and actor. His first feature The Childhood of a Leader — starring Bérénice Béjo, Liam Cunningham, Robert Pattinson and Stacy Martin — won both Best Debut Film and Best Director at the Venice Film Festival (Horizons section). His filmography as an actor includes amongst others Fatih Akin’s Mysterious Skin, Michael Haneke’s Funny Games U.S., Sean Durkin’s Martha Marcy May Marlene, Antonio Campos’ Simon Killer, Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia, Mona Fastvold’s The Sleepwalker… He is currently working on his upcoming feature Vox Lux: A 21st Century Portrait about the rise of a pop star from 1999 to the present — that he will shoot in 65mm.
Brady Corbet shares with us five films he loves.
01
The Devil, Probably, Robert Bresson, 1977
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One that changed my way of approaching movies, as a viewer and as a filmmaker. I often recommend films that have an unconventional narrative, such as Tarkovski’s Andreï Roublev or The Mirror. These are the ones that made me understand cinema differently.
02
The Passenger, Andrzej Munk, 1963
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I just love this film. Nobody has seen it. Whenever I mention it, everyone thinks of the Antonioni one… It’s tragic and disturbing, but also extraordinary for its level of craftsmanship, its impressive camera movements…
03
Pola X, Leos Carax, 1999
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I have a strong affinity for this one. I remember the first time I saw it. It was like a fever dream. I was maybe eleven and had picked it up in a video store in Colorado because of the poster.
04
Day of Wrath, Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1943
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Just because it’s Dreyer’s best film.
05
The Virgin Spring, Ingmar Bergman, 1960
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It's strange, I don't really like the Medieval period however three of my favorite movies take place at that time: this one, Andreï Roublev by Andreï Tarkovski and Marketa Latzrova by Frantisek Vlacil.
01 The Devil, Probably, Robert Bresson, 1977
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01
One that changed my way of approaching movies, as a viewer and as a filmmaker. I often recommend films that have an unconventional narrative, such as Tarkovski’s Andreï Roublev or The Mirror. These are the ones that made me understand cinema differently.
02 The Passenger, Andrzej Munk, 1963
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02
I just love this film. Nobody has seen it. Whenever I mention it, everyone thinks of the Antonioni one… It’s tragic and disturbing, but also extraordinary for its level of craftsmanship, its impressive camera movements…
03 Pola X, Leos Carax, 1999
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03
I have a strong affinity for this one. I remember the first time I saw it. It was like a fever dream. I was maybe eleven and had picked it up in a video store in Colorado because of the poster.
04 Day of Wrath, Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1943
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04
Just because it’s Dreyer’s best film.
05 The Virgin Spring, Ingmar Bergman, 1960
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05
It's strange, I don't really like the Medieval period however three of my favorite movies take place at that time: this one, Andreï Roublev by Andreï Tarkovski and Marketa Latzrova by Frantisek Vlacil.