Aldo Gagliardi

Not quite sure, oddly enough probably none, but among the ones I love, in no order, 8½, Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto, Phantom Thread, Under the Skin, La grande bellezza, The Other Side of the Wind, High-Rise, Carol, The Souvenir, The Passionate Friends, In the Mood for Love, Zama, Song to Song, Holy Motors, Il sorpasso

Le Mepris, McQueen (Ian Bonhôte, on Alexander McQueen), Des hommes et des dieux

I was tempted watching Ad Astra but I was blocked by a lady sitting next to me who seemed to be enjoying it very much and I didn’t want to bother her – she was also eating a cake, it would have been tricky

Paul Thomas Anderson, Jonathan Glazer, Joanna Hogg, Lucrecia Martel, Terrence Malick, Sofia Coppola, Steve McQueen, Lynne Ramsey, Claire Denis, Nicolas Winding Refn, Alice Rohrwacher plus of course Jean-Luc Godard, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Richard Bresson, Dino Risi, Ettore Scola, Elio Petri – and I am sure I am missing many

Daniel Day-Lewis, Cate Blanchett, Joaquin Phoenix, Vanessa Redgrave, Ralph Fiennes, Gian Maria Volonté, Marcello Mastroianni, Monica Vitti, Alberto Sordi, Michel Piccoli, Isabelle Huppert, Juliette Binoche – I suppose I could go on forever

Another endless list – very randomly Paul Thomas Anderson, Ennio Flaiano, Paolo Sorrentino, Paul Shrader, and also James Balwin, Albert Camus, David Foster Wallace, Arthur Miller, Samuel Beckett

A lot of recent stuff but for sentimental reasons I would probably go for John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme, Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here, Moby’s Play, Bob Dylan’s Desire, Lou Reed's Rock ’n’ Roll Animal, Nick Cave’s Ghosteen as well as almost anything by Fela Kuti, Pet Shop Boy, Daft Punk, Radiohead

James Baldwin’s Another Country, William Somerset Maugham’s The Moon and Six Pence, Djuna Barnet’s Nightwood, Don DeLillo’s Americana, George Orwell’s Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Tony Harrison’s selected poems, The Best of A. A. Gill, Balenciaga (Mary Bloom)