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Frank Ocean's Return Continues With Striking, NSFW 'Nikes' Music Video
Frank Ocean's Return Continues With Striking, NSFW 'Nikes' Music Video

Frank Ocean's List Of Favorite Movies Is A Cinephile's Wet Dream

Frank Ocean's Return Continues With Striking, NSFW 'Nikes' Music Video

Four days sitting with Frank Ocean's Blonde behemoth and we're still unpacking its brilliance. Yesterday we brought you Frank's favorite song of all-time, as published in his Boys Don't Cry magazine. Today the focus switches to the big-screen, as we uncover Frank's cinematic influences, also self-published in the magazine, revealing a palette for film that is equally, if not more impressive than that dynamic and atmospheric playlist.

Frank's listicle of favorite films is neck-deep in classics, including Blue Velvet, Reservoir Dogs, A Clockwork Orange, as well as damn near-the full catalogue of Stanley Kubrick and Quentin Tarantino films. So if you've been looking to dive a little deeper into the pool of influence that inspired Frank Ocean's Blonde, or just looking for some suggestions to add to your Netflix queue, scroll on for the full haul. Both Blonde and Endless, Frank's visual album, are available to hear and see as Apple Music exclusives.

Frank's Favorite Films:

ATL

Un Chien Andalou

Blue Velvet

Barry Lyndon

Battleship Potemkin

Eraser Head

Chungking Express

Raging Bull

The Conformist

The Bicycle Thief

Taxi Driver

A Clockwork Orange

Mean Streets

Gods of the Plague

Persona

Mullholland Dr.

Happy Together (Wong Kar Wai)

Fallen Angels

Apocalypse Now

The Last Laugh

Pi

Full Metal Jacket

No Country For Old Men

Wild at Heart

Momento

Metropolis

Rushmore

The Royal Tenenbaums

Miller’s Crossing

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoise (Luis Bunuel)

Blood Simple

Rashomon

Orpheus

LA Confidential

Reservoir Dogs

Eastern Promises

2001 A Space Odyssey

Battle Royale

The Passion of Anna

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

Oldboy (Park Chan-Wook 2003)

Django Unchained

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

The Godfather

M (Fritz Lang)

Scarface (Howard Hawks 1932)

Scarface (De Palma 1983)

Blade Runner

Citizen Kane

On the Waterfront

Annie Hall

Psycho

Dr. Strangelove

The French Connection

The Deer Hunter

Wild Strawberries (Bergman)

Fargo

The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky)

El Topo

The Holy Mountain

The Shining

Pulp Fiction

Fitzcarraldo

American Beauty

Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky)

True Romance

Elephant Man

Seven Samurai

Woyzeck

Jackie Brown

Aguirre, The Wrath of God

Paris, Texas

Devil in a Blue Dress

Inglorious Bastards

Serpico

Alien

Ed Wood

Hard Eight

The Seventh Seal

Sonatine

Paths of Glory

There Will Be Blood

Spartacus

Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Fight Club

Brazil

Throne of Blood

Dog Day Afternoon

Rosemary’s Baby

Phantom of the Paradise

The Master

Malcom X

Scorpio Rising

Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome

The Friends of Edie Coyle

The King of Comedy

Basquiat

Puce Moment

Nosferatu