Follow Along with Edgar Wright's and Quentin Tarantino's Quarantine Film Club

During a three-hour discussion on “The Empire Film Podcast,” Edgar Wright and Quentin Tarantino revealed how their quarantine movie club came to be. The two screenwriters and directors have kept in touch throughout this pandemic, and thanks to a kind email Wright wrote to Martin Scorsese nine months ago, the two have been going down the rabbit hole of British films.

Scorsese sent Wright a recommendation list of nearly 50 British films that Scorsese considers his personal favorites. In the five months Wright spent in lockdown before resuming production on Last Night in Soho and prior to receiving the list from Scorsese, he started watching films and then searching for Scorsese’s commentary on those films via essays online or YouTube. Unfortunately, there weren’t enough commentary videos or essays to please Wright’s appetite, which led him to email Scorsese, thanking him for being his quarantine film professor and asking what some of his favorite British films were. 

Check out Scorsese’s list below, courtesy of Wright. Head over to Empire magazine’s website to listen to Wright and Tarantino’s three-hour discussion in its entirety.

• Shooting Stars (1928) - Anthony Asquith 
• Brief Ecstasy (1937) - Edmond T. Gréville
• Went the Day Well? (1942) - Alberto Cavalcanti
• The Man in Grey (1943) - Leslie Arliss
• This Happy Breed (1944) - David Lean
• Halfway House (1944) - Basil Dearden 
• Madonna and the Seven Moons (1945) - Arthur Crabtree
• Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945) - Robert Hamer
• Dead of Night (1945) - Anthology
• The Seventh Vail (1945) - Compton Bennett
• Green for Danger (1946) - Sidney Gilliat 
• It Always Rains on Sunday (1947) - Robert Hamer
• Hue & Cry (1947) - Charles Crichton
• Uncle Silas (1947) - Charles Frank
• To the Public Danger (1948) - Terrence Fisher
• The Queen of Spades (1949) - Thorold Dickinson
• So Long at the Fair (1950) - Terrence Fisher
• The Blue Lamp (1950) - Basil Dearden
• Stolen Face (1952) - Terrence Fisher
• Sound Barrier (1952) - David Lean
• Mandy (1952) - Alexander Mackendrick
• Four Sided Triangle (1953) - Terrence Fisher
• The Good Die Young (1954) - Lewis Gilbert
• The Quatermass Films (1955 - 1979) - Roy Ward Baker
• Yield to the Night (1956) - J. Lee Thompson
• Nowhere to Go (1958) - Seth Holt
• The Snorkel (1958) - Guy Green
• Sapphire (1959) - Basil Dearden
• The Flesh of the Fiends (1960) - John Gilling 
• Scream of Fear/Taste of Fear (1961) - Seth Holt 
• These are the Damned (1961) - Joseph Losey
• The Innocents (1961) - Jack Clayton 
• Burn, Witch, Burn (1962) - Sidney Hayers
• Station Six-Sahara (1963) - Seth Holt 
• The Mind Benders (1963) - Basil Dearden 
• The Nanny (1964) - Seth Holt 
• Guns at Batasi (1964) - John Guillermin
• The Pumpkin Eater (1964) - Jack Clayton
• A High Wind in Jamaica (1965) - Alexander Mackendrick 
• Plague of the Zombies (1966) - Josh Gilling
• The Devil Rides Out (1968) - Terence Fisher
• Whistle and I’ll Come to You (1968) - Jonathan Miller 
• Underground (1970) - Anthony Asquith
• Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971) - Roy Ward Baker
• The Asphyx (1972) - Peter Newbrook
• Legend of Hell House (1973) - John Hough
• Vampyres (1974) - José Ramón Larraz
• The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987) - Jack Clayton 

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