Edgar Wright
Director
Director Edgar Wright is perhaps best known for his projects with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. These include the hit movies Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, and the television series Spaced, the latter being nominated for two BAFTA awards.
Q1 Which one film would you wish to share with future generations?
Raising Arizona
USA 1987
The Coen brothers' acclaimed screwball romance combines slapstick action, surreal fantasy and homespun family values.
A film I return to again and again is the Coen Brother's second movie Raising Arizona (1987). It was hugely inspiring for me; in its tone, its visuals and in its highly quotable and amazingly detailed script.
It showed that a comedy film can be stylised and yet still warm; be tightly structured and yet still wild.
Its a film you have to watch a good four or five times to spot everything and I've done so much, much more than that.
Q2 What excites you about the future of the moving image?
The communal experience still excites me. No matter how good the advances in home theatre become, I'd like to believe that people will return to watching films with a full house. Your memory of a movie is so entwined with the reaction of the audience you saw it with. See something with a good and responsive crowd and you will never forget it. Having just curated a repertory cinema in Los Angeles and shown 14 of my favourite films, I was treated to 14 experiences I will never forget. So continuing to fuel that passion in audiences is important; not only in the way you present cinema of the past, but in how you create the cinema of the future; whether it be 3D or IMAX or just simply making great films that connect with people.