Scorsese helped create Wright and Tarantino's movie club with these must-see British films. During a three-hour discussion on “The Empire Film Podcast,” Edgar Wright and Quentin Tarantino revealed how their quarantine movie club came to be. The two screenwriters and directors have kept in touch throughout this pandemic, and thanks to a kind email Wright wrote to Martin Scorsese nine months ago, the two have been going down the rabbit hole of British films. Scorsese sent Wright a recommendation list of nearly 50 British films that Scorsese considers his personal favorites. In the five months Wright spent in lockdown before resuming production on Last Night in Soho and prior to receiving the list from Scorsese, he started watching films and then searching for Scorsese’s commentary on those films via essays online or YouTube. Unfortunately, there weren’t enough commentary videos or essays to please Wright’s appetite, which led him to email Scorsese, thanking him for being his quarantine film professor and asking what some of his favorite British films were. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Monday, 15 February, 2021