These are Nick Cave’s favorite films
Nick Cave He shared a list of his favorite films, publishing a list of 10 titles in the last update of his website of questions and answers with fans, Red Hand Files.
“Only for fun, I have some questions about the movies and I would like to hear your answers,” wrote Danielle Di Houston, Texas on the Australian Cantautor website.
Cave thus confessed that his favorite film is “Wake in Frigt“, 1971 Australian New Wave film directed by Ted Kotcheff. The film is played by Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond and Chips Rafferty.
Among the different responses Cave revealed the feature film that “is ashamed to admit” to appreciate: the romantic comedy “Love Actuary – Love really“(2003) by Richard Curtis, with Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, Emma Thompson and others.
This new list overturns what Cave had declared in 2022 when he said the biographical film on Marilyn Monroe “Blonde“(Directed by Andrew Dominik) was his favorite film of all time.
Last month, Cave always released the praises of a “glorious” album on his Red Hand Files website that he was appreciating (Read here)
These are the preferences relating to the categories of films reported by Nick Cave
The favorite movie of all time
“Wake in Frigt” (1971)
The favorite film of his childhood
“The Hunchback of Notre Dame – The hunchback of Notre Dame” (1939)
The most recent film he saw
The short film by Arthur Jafa, “Love Is the Message, The Message is Death” (2016), recently projected to the Chicago contemporary art museum. It is a seven -minute video composed of original and found breeds of films containing distressing scenes of historical and contemporary violence inflicted on the blacks of America, which intertwine with scenes of religious ecstasy, athletic features, poetic and musical performance. The director defined the short “a black performance of black excellence”.
A movie that makes him laugh
“Living in Oblivion -Turn to Manhattan” by Tom Dicillo (1995)
A film that makes him cry
“Bambi” (1942)
A film that would be able to recite by heart (which has seen ten million times)
“Scarface” (1983)
A film for which it nourishes an irrational hatred that cannot explain
“Dr. Stargelove – Il Dr. Stonamore” (1964)
The favorite documentary
“Shoah” made by Claude Lanzmann (1985)
A film that embarrasses him to admit that he liked him
“Love Actually -really” directed by Richard Curtis (2003)
Susie’s favorite (his wife)
“One Deadly Summer – The assassin summer” directed by Jean Becker (1983)
