Trivia

Frequent member of the jury grid of the online magazine ScreenDaily.

His favorite musicians are The Beatles.

According to a Sight & Sound magazine poll for 2012, his ten greatest films are: Eraserhead (1977), The Idiots (1998), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), Mirror (1975), My Friend Ivan Lapshin (1985), Ordet (1955), The Phantom of Liberty (1974), Psycho (1960), The Seventh Seal (1957) and Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924).

According to a BBC Culture poll for 2018, his ten greatest foreign-language films are: 1. Mirror (1975), 2. Ordet (1955), 3. Fanny and Alexander (1982), 4. The Idiots (1998), 5. Tokyo Story (1953), 6. My Friend Ivan Lapshin (1985), 7. The Story of Qiu Ju (1992), 8. Kikujiro (1999), 9. Pierrot le fou (1965) and 10. La Dolce Vita (1960).

According to a BBC Culture poll for 2019, his ten greatest films directed by women are: 1. The Asthenic Syndrome (1989), 2. Daisies (1966), 3. The Wonders (2014), 4. The Ascent (1977), 5. Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), 6. Getting to Know the Big, Wide World (1980), 7. The Night Porter (1974), 8. On Body and Soul (2017), 9. Italian for Beginners (2000) and 10. Toni Erdmann (2016).

According to him, the best products of mankind are wine and cheese.

His three favorite composers are Richard Wagner, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Luigi Nono.