Martyn Pick

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I am a London director best known for my personal fusion of liveaction and animation in features like “The Age of Stupid” (Spanner Films), my short films like “Plaza” (Channel 4), Green (FilmFour) and “London 2012”(Film London) as well as my commercial work for Budweiser, BBC Euro 2004 and U2. Coming from a fine art animation background my taste in cinema is operatic, kinetic and to do with powerful visual storytelling. Hence the Italian and Japanese epics, the visceral genre films and the lack of British Social Realism. This taste very much influences my filmmaking practice.

  1. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) .. Sergio Leone
  2. The Passenger (1975) .. Michelangelo Antonioni
  3. The Wild Bunch (1969) .. Sam Peckinpah
  4. Once Upon a Time in America (1984) .. Sergio Leone
  5. Way Down East (1920) .. D.W. Griffith
  6. Heaven's Gate (1980) .. Michael Cimino
  7. Lola Montes (1955) .. Max Ophüls
  8. The Wages of Fear (1953) .. Henri-Georges Clouzot
  9. New York Doll (2005) .. Greg Whiteley
  10. Ivan the Terrible, Part One (1944) .. Sergei M. Eisenstein
  11. Performance (1970) .. Nicolas Roeg & Donald Cammell
  12. King Kong (1933) .. Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack
  13. The Searchers (1956) .. John Ford
  14. Dawn of the Dead (1978) .. George A. Romero
  15. Seven Samurai (1954) .. Akira Kurosawa
  16. The Rebel (1961) .. Robert Day
  17. Duck Soup (1933) .. Leo McCarey
  18. Manhunter (1986) .. Michael Mann
  19. Taxi Driver (1976) .. Martin Scorsese
  20. Frenzy (1972) .. Alfred Hitchcock
  21. L'Atalante (1934) .. Jean Vigo
  22. The Shining (1980) .. Stanley Kubrick
  23. Battleship Potemkin (1925) .. Sergei M. Eisenstein
  24. Scorpio Rising (1964) .. Kenneth Anger
  25. Freaks (1932) .. Tod Browning
  26. The Wrestler (2008) .. Darren Aronofsky
  27. Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) .. Pier Paolo Pasolini
  28. L'Age d’Or (1930) .. Luis Buñuel
  29. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) .. Tobe Hooper
  30. Barry Lyndon (1975) .. Stanley Kubrick
  31. 300 (2006) .. Zack Snyder
  32. On the Waterfront (1954) .. Elia Kazan
  33. There Will Be Blood (2007) .. Paul Thomas Anderson
  34. Capturing the Friedmans (2003) .. Andrew Jarecki
  35. The Exorcist (1973) .. William Friedkin
  36. The Filth and the Fury (2000) .. Julien Temple
  37. The Black Cat (1934) .. Edgar G. Ulmer
  38. Suspiria (1977) .. Dario Argento
  39. One from the Heart (1982) .. Francis Ford Coppola
  40. Casino (1995) .. Martin Scorsese
  41. Chimes at Midnight (1965) .. Orson Welles
  42. Pierrot le Fou (1965) .. Jean-Luc Godard
  43. Throne of Blood (1957) .. Akira Kurosawa
  44. The Leopard (1963) .. Luchino Visconti
  45. Shanghai Express (1932) .. Josef von Sternberg
  46. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974) .. Sam Peckinpah
  47. Faust (1926) .. F.W. Murnau
  48. Blackmail (1929) .. Alfred Hitchcock
  49. Apocalypse Now (1979) .. Francis Ford Coppola
  50. Intolerance (1916) .. D.W. Griffith

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