I’ve always loved detectives stories and ’50s movies; quirky stuff like Sunset Boulevard, which my wife and I always sit down and watch. LA Confidential is the film that got me into film noir, but recently I was talking with Mark Kermode (the BBC’s Film Review host) and I was saying, ‘I absolutely love film noir. What do you think about the new take on it, with Curtis Hanson’s LA Confidential?’ He was like, ‘Mmm, don’t really like that’.
We went and saw Drive; it’s fucking nuts. Charlotte hated the soundtrack, but I loved it. There was this one song that kept playing over and over in these certain scenes, and I loved it so I was looking forward to that kind of scene coming back up so that I could listen to the song again. Charlotte hated it! I could see her squirming in her seat every time it came up. We also saw Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy; I’ve never read the book, but it’s beautifully done. Every single shot was itself like a painting.
If there was a Subways movie, I’d like to think it would be a film noir. Maybe there was some sort of murder? I would want David Fincher to direct it. What he did with Zodiac was amazing. It was so beautifully crafted, such a tastefully done film. The picture was amazing – because it was set in the ’70s, they recreated the ’70s look – a very filtered look. So maybe I’d like to take it back to the ’70s for our movie. Josh is murdered by some fanatic – I don’t want to be murdered: I want to be the one who’s crying into his beer in some dirty rock ‘n’ roll Berlin bar that is always being referenced in the movie. The killer leaves a rose behind – after every show in Germany we find a rose in the middle of the dance floor. And after Josh is murdered there’s a bunch of roses left by his dead body. He kept going out of time during ‘With You’; that was the motive. God, that should be done!”
The Subways’ new single ‘It’s A Party’ is out January 2nd.
