Ant-Man 2015
Harvilla swears the shrinking-suitcase fight scored to the Cure is pure Edgar Wright. It's actually Peyton Reed, who finished the film after Wright departed.
The Big Picture · Discussion · Rankings · Interview
The Edgar Wright Rankings and ‘Last Night in Soho’ With Edgar Wright!
October 29, 2021/ 85 min/ Sean Fennessey · Rob Harvilla
Rob Harvilla joins to rank Edgar Wright's filmography, then Edgar himself calls in to talk 'Last Night in Soho,' the 1960s ghosts he can't shake, and shooting mirror tricks in camera instead of on a green screen.
20 films across 3 segments.
AI-generated This episode was transcribed and analyzed with AI models. The matches aren't perfect — expect the occasional misheard title or a link to the wrong film.
Talking Edgar Wrightwith Rob Harvilla, host of 60 Songs That Explain the '90s
The Adventures of Tintin 2011
Wright co-wrote it; Fennessey hasn't gotten around to it.
A Fistful of Fingers 1995
Wright's undistributed first feature, a spaghetti-western spoof shot for cheap (findable on YouTube).
Dead Right 1993
A student-film 'Dirty Harry' parody Wright made in college.
Don't 2007
Wright's fake trailer inside Grindhouse, a horror homage to Hammer films of the '60s and '70s.
Rob Harvilla's Edgar Wright Rankingsbest to worst; Fennessey mostly agreed, give or take whichever Cornetto film he'd watched most recently
No. 1
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World 2010
No. 1. A box-office flop at the time that both hosts say has aged into a consensus favorite. Harvilla still watches the blooper reel on a loop.
No. 3
The World's End 2013
Harvilla admits he's overrating it because he can't stop turning it over in his head.
No. 4
Hot Fuzz 2007
Last of the Cornetto trilogy, not for lack of love. Harvilla figures the hate mail is coming.
No. 5
The Sparks Brothers 2021
Wright's Sparks documentary, discussed at length on an earlier episode.
No. 6
Baby Driver 2017
A hit Harvilla admires more than he loves: all style, not much left over to chew on afterward.
Edgar Wright on 'Last Night in Soho'
Edgar Wright on
Last Night in Soho 2021
His first film centered on a woman's perspective, co-written with Krysty Wilson-Cairns; a decade-long obsession with Soho's dueling glamour and darkness, built around unbroken in-camera mirror choreography rather than green screen.
Edgar Wright on
Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991
Wright cites an unused deleted-scene mirror shot. He later mentioned it to James Cameron directly.
Edgar Wright on
Poltergeist III 1988
Practical mirror-shot trickery Wright studied frame by frame with the film's director, Gary Sherman, over Zoom.
Edgar Wright on
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1931
Rouben Mamoulian's transformation mirror trick, an inspiration Wright cites for Soho's doubling effects.
Edgar Wright on
Caught 1949
One of the Max Ophuls noirs Wright had already seen before diving into the rest of his filmography.
Edgar Wright on
Letter From an Unknown Woman 1948
Part of Wright's deep dive into Ophuls last year, his pick for the last great thing he'd seen.
Edgar Wright on
The Earrings of Madame de... 1953
Fennessey pitches it as a double feature with Soho for the camerawork alone.
Also mentioned raised along the way
In passing West Side StoryFerris Bueller's Day OffThor: RagnarokHereditaryMidsommarGrindhouse
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