Director Andrew Haigh Discusses His Four Favourite Films

In an interview with Letterboxd, director Andrew Haigh discussed his four favourite films, in keeping with Letterboxd’s custom of showing its users’ four favourite films on their account.

His first pick was Watership Down, the 1978 adaptation of the novel of the same name. It follows a group of rabbits who try to ensure their survival and find a new home.

It isn’t the first time Haigh has mentioned his love of the film. In an interview on the Criterion Collection YouTube channel, he discussed his adoration of it, summarising it as an ‘existential crisis with rabbits’, concluding that ‘you can’t beat it’.

His next choice was Nicholas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now. For years the film was most memorable for its controversial sex scene, which lead to it being given a X rating — meaning for adults only — by the British Film Board of Censors. When Don’t Look Now premiered had its television debut in the UK, the scene was cut out entirely.

Nowadays, the film is renowned for its editing, performances and sense of foreboding. Despite premiering to middling reviews, in recent years it placed in the top 50 films in the Sight and Sound directors’ poll, and has been similarly acclaimed in directors’ and critics’ lists of the best British films — as well as the best horror films — of all time.