Nicolas Cage Names His Four Favorite Films of All Time
Actor Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas, Raising Arizona, Renfield) is a known cinephile, and he was asked by Letterboxd (via GamesRadar) on the red carpet at the Toronto International Film Festival what his personal favorite films are. Of course, he was very thoughtful in his response, and gave some cool answers.
The first film Cage lists is Federico Fellini’s 1965 Juliet of the Spirits, a comedy drama following a middle-aged woman who contacts the dead through a seance after growing suspicious of her husband's wandering eye. Through spiritual guidance, the woman finds out more about herself and her husband than she bargained for.
The second film is one of those obvious answers, as it’s named by some as the greatest film of all time, but you can tell he truly means his answer, and that’s, of course, Orson Welles' 1942 masterpiece Citizen Kane. The classic story centers around a journalist trying to decipher a message left by a dead tycoon, uncovering the secrets behind it. After holding the number one position in the British Film Institute's Sight & Sound poll of critics for 50 consecutive years, it is no surprise that the film still remains a favorite of many.
The third film on Cage’s list is the French coming of age drama 400 Blows directed by François Truffaut. Released in 1960, 400 Blows follows a neglected young boy who turns to a life of petty crime, taking inspiration from director Truffaut’s own adolescent adventures.
Cage wraps up his list with another cinema giant 2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by the legendary Stanley Kubrick. At the beginning of the 1968 sci-fi adventure, an astronaut finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and with the help of a supercomputer, sets off on a quest to find its origin.
“Yeah it just goes on and on”, Cage concludes at the end of the interview, suggesting that he could go on and on about his favorite films. The guy should start a podcast. I bet he’d get a ton of listeners!