Steven Spielberg shares five of his favorite classic movies recommended with fans as the recently appointed TCM Network Advisor

Director Steven Spielberg he’s known for making some of the best movies of all time, but before he became a director, he was a fan of cinema just like the rest of us, and had a ton of classic movies that he grew up loving. He now shares some with us through his new job as a consultant to the Turner Classic Movies network.

IndieWire reports that in a new segment called “Spielberg’s Picks,” the director named the following classics among his favorites:

Vicente Minnelli’S See you in St. Louis (1944), Douglas Sirk’S Imitation of life (1959), Gordon Douglas’S They! (1954), Minelli The ugly and the beautiful (1952) and Alfred Hitchcock’S The wrong man (1957).

From See you in St. LouisSpielberg chooses young people Margaret O’Brien as a highlight (she “pretty much steals the whole movie from everyone”), while praising the performances of Lana Turner, Susan KohnerAND Juanita Moore For Imitation of life. Make the connection between They! as the first American science fiction film about the unexpected effects of nuclear fallout and the original Godzilla. And only from Spielberg could you get such an idea about it The ugly and the beautifulwhich is a Hollywood baseball take on an executive willing to compromise any scruples to make his films: “Growing up in this industry, I met people like Jonathan Shields, played brilliantly by KirkDouglas, who I never wanted to work for, but who I couldn’t wait to see their next film. Obviously! Spielberg actually met people like Shields!

And of The wrong man, recalls the story of how Hitchcock’s father, in order to teach him a lesson, took him to the police station and put him in a cell for a few hours. “I think this [film] it’s a direct result of this childhood trauma,” Spielberg said. Hitchcock’s filmography is replete with films about falsely accused runaways. But he’s never approached that idea with the seriousness and sadness it leads to The wrong man. As Spielberg puts it, “What his father did to Hitchcock was intolerable, but perhaps it made him the master of suspense and one of the greatest directors in the history of cinema.”

Martin Scorsese AND Paul Thomas Anderson they have also been placed on the board of directors of TCM Network Advisors and their picks are imminent.

I love the movie See you in St. Louis, but I didn’t see the others in the list. Looks like I have some movies to watch! What’s your favorite on the list?