Interview: Filmmaker David Nicholas Wilkinson on “3 Films That Have Impacted Your Adult Life”

Join screenwriter Stuart Wright as he dives into movies that changed your life with filmmaker David Nicholas Wilkinson, in this engaging episode of 3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life. Explore Billy Liar’s impact on David, Johnny Go Home’s analysis, and Assault On Precinct 13’s influence on his personal growth and evidence of cinema’s transformative power. David Nicholas Wilkinson also discusses the making of his latest documentary The Marbles.

• Billy Liar – David Nicholas Wilkinson says Billy Liar is film that grew on him over time and would become his favourite British film of all time. He became aware of when he worked with Wilfred Pickles – who played Tom Courtenay’s father in it.
• Johnny Go Home – David Nicholas Wilkinson shares how Johnny Go Home was a documentary he saw on ITV. It went out once and if you missed it, you never saw it because there was no way of recording it at the time. Within the innocent filming, if you can call it innocent, the filmmakers realise they have something that could convict someone of murder.
• Assault On Precinct 13 – David Nicholas Wilkinson talks about Assault On Precinct 13 as an example of films that flop in cinemas and go on later to have a second, more successful life – see also Withal & I, Bladerunner and/or The Shawshank Redemption.