The director and writer known for Under the Skin, Birth and Sexy Beast picks Billy Liar.
The director and writer known for Under the Skin, Birth and Sexy Beast picks Billy Liar.
I was introduced to the land of cinema by my dad. He bought a VCR in the mid-seventies and built up a library of films he recorded from the the TV. I’d sit on the floor next to his armchair and watch them with him. Billy Liar by John Schlesinger, about a young fantasist, looking for escape felt like it was made for me. A parallel world beckoned. Like hearing David Bowie for the first time through the closed bedroom door of my friend’s older brother.
