James Lees

Director

In the last week: 22
Total: 1971

Films I wish I had made: Features: The Warrior, Buffalo 66, American Splendor, Once Upon a Time in the West, Cave of the Yellow Dog, George Washington, Docs: Billy the Kid, American Teen, Zoo, About A Son, Shorts: Two Cars One Night, The Ground Beneath
I cried watching: ET - yep 'fraid so.
I left the cinema during: Batman & Robin when I was at school. How shit must it have been to force kids to leave a cinema??
Directors I love: Gus Van Sant, David Gordon Green, Richard Linklater, those Mumblecore lot for just doing it - even if not all the films are great, Shane Meadows, Lynne Ramsey, Vincent Moon.
Actors I admire: Paddy Considine, Paul Giamatti, Johnny Depp, Henry Fonda, Giovanni Ribisi, Natalie Portman, Parker Posey, Christina Ricci, Ellen Burstyn
My desert island discs: The Postal Service - Give Up, Nirvana - Box Set, Screaming Trees - Dust, The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds, Nick Drake - Introduction, Ron Sexsmith - Revolver, Tegan & Sara - If It Was You, Kap Bambino - Blacklist, Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim, Led Zeppelin - III, Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Books I have given my friends: Summer Blonde - Adrian Tomine, Sleepwalk and Other Stories - Adrian Tomine, Shortcomings - Adrian Tomine, ..basically go buy an Adrian Tomine book, he's incredible, oh and I lent Wouldn't It Be Nice, the Brian Wilson biography to someone sometime.
My death row meal: A selection of cheeses from around the world.
The best thing I own: A set of really bad eyes.