The Cincinnati Kid (1965) This film, which represents the classic poker challenge between the young street talent and the veterans of the high elite, is a masterclass: photography (by Philip H. Lathrop), editing (a certain Hal Ashby), music (the great Lalo Schifrin) and finally direction by Jewison

Jeff Goldblum & Geena Davis as Brundlefly & Veronica "Ronnie" Quaife in: The Fly (1986)

Jeff Goldblum & Geena Davis as Brundlefly & Veronica "Ronnie" Quaife in: The Fly (1986) by David Cronenberg ■ Screenplay by Charles Edward Pogue & David Cronenberg

Any comics/graphic novels that feel like Lynch’s work?

Mouse Hunt (1997) by Gore Verbinski ■ Screenplay by Adam Rifkin

Mouse Hunt (1997) by Gore Verbinski ■ Screenplay by Adam Rifkin

Jeff Goldblum & Geena Davis as Brundlefly & Veronica "Ronnie" Quaife in: The Fly (1986)

Driven (2001) The Crazy Races (in CART) of Renny Harlin & Sylvester Stallone. Director Harlin wanted to capture the excitement and pageantry of the sport, and wherever possible he took his cast and crew to actual racing events to film scenes with real drivers, crew and crowds in the background.

Driven (2001) The Crazy Races (in CART) of Renny Harlin & Sylvester Stallone. Director Harlin wanted to capture the excitement and pageantry of the sport, and wherever possible he took his cast and crew to actual racing events to film scenes with real drivers, crew and crowds in the background.

Driven (2001) The Crazy Races (in CART) of Renny Harlin & Sylvester Stallone. Director Harlin wanted to capture the excitement and pageantry of the sport, and wherever possible he took his cast and crew to actual racing events to film scenes with real drivers, crew and crowds in the background.

The House That Dripped Blood (1971) Four stories in a House Of Horrors brought to you by Amicus Productions and writer Robert Bloch. We get vampires, witchcraft, waxworks and a writer tormented by his own creation. It's all high Briti-horror in Amicus style, but it's also exceptionally well produced

Days of Thunder (1990) Top Nascar, inspired by the life of Tim Richmond, an actual Winston Cup driver from the 80s, the film is one of the best examples of car racing put on the big screen.

Batman Returns (1992) / Nosferatu (2024)

Susan George as Amy Sumner in: Straw Dogs (1971) by Sam Peckinpah ■ Make-up by Harry & Peter Frampton ■ Costumes by Tiny Nicholls

The Man from Earth (2007) The story is Jerome Bixby's final work, completed on his deathbed in April 1998. Bixby dictated the ending of the screenplay to his son Emerson, the screenwriter. After Jerome Bixby's death, the screenplay was handed over to Richard Schenkman to direct the film

Hardcore (1979) A father searching for his daughter, in an America that is experiencing its own disenchantment. Schrader, with a still immature direction, writes an interesting thriller set on the edge of the world of porn

What was your exposure to Kubrick?

In my opinion, The Shining owes much of its atmosphere to this film. The look and the feeling of the film are otherwise different, but both of them do have that off-putting feeling to them, and the sense that the evil is probably everywhere.

Some Kind of Monsters: Vargtimmen (1968) ■ Written and Directed by Ingmar Bergman ● Cinematography by Sven Nykvist

Hardcore (1979) A father searching for his daughter, in an America that is experiencing its own disenchantment. Schrader, with a still immature direction, writes an interesting thriller set on the edge of the world of porn.

Drew Some Cartoon Illustrations of David Lynch's Filmograpjhy

Natasha Richardson as Mary Shelley in: Gothic (1986) by Ken Russell

Interiors (1978) Allen’s first “attempt” at a drama isn’t just a try, it’s an entire success (you can feel Bergman touch). Each character, scene and line of dialogue is just so raw and intimate, reaching a level of the darkest depths that few films explore.

Interiors (1978) When Woody applied himself to drama in this way, wanting to quote his masters like Bergman, the result is a deadly work that in itself brings back all the authorial vastness of its author. Melancholic, tragic, corrosive, sardonic, alienating and at times funereal,

Otto Preminger, Andy Warhol, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Sam Peckinpah, Spike Lee, David Lynch, William Castle, Kenneth Anger, Pedro Almodóvar, Rainer Werner Fassbinder & Sam Fuller - The totem filmmakers of the gang of cinema terrorists in Cecil B. Demented (2000) ■ Written and Directed by John Waters