Top 10 films de casse par Edgar Wright

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"Heat is the granddaddy of heist movies because Michael Mann takes a relatively simple bank heist and turns it into something epic. The movie is nearly three hours and you’re tense for the entire thing. I remember seeing it for the first time, knowing that bank heist was coming and there was going to be a big action scene. The anticipation of that set piece kicking off, I remember it vividly. The set piece itself is so brilliantly shot and vivid and loud. The whole film is just incredible."

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"A truly underrated heist movie. The plot is great because it feels like a Russian doll series of heists. One leads to another and they get themselves into stickier situations. It’s a film with four heists leading on from one another. It’s a really fun movie."

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"Walter Hill wrote an adaptation of Jim Thompson’s novel for Sam Peckinpah. It’s really great movie. I love the way it’s edited. That was a big influence on me. I love the opening sequence with Steve McQueen in prison. That’s a bit of an influence on Baby Driver."

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"It’s such a fun caper. The minis are iconic. The Quincy Jones score is amazing. And I love, love, love the cliffhanger ending. I’ve always been curious as to how the ending came about because it’s such an interesting, odd way to end a movie. But I love it."

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"It’s a heist movie without showing the heist. I don’t know if there’s a more supremely confident debut movie, outside of Citizen Kane. Quentin Tarantino arrives on screen. Amazing."

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"This is another film that’s very dear to me. It’s Michael Cimino's debut movie starring Clint Eastwood and a young Jeff Bridges. It builds up to them robbing this bank with a military cannon and is just a great heist movie. It’s really funny and has a great 70s ending. I love that movie."

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"Point Break is a film very dear to my heart. It’s genuinely fantastic and really holds up. I watched it again recently on the big screen. Kathryn Bigelow directs action so well. It’s so brilliantly shot. It’s been a big influence on me a couple of times now, both on Hot Fuzz and Baby Driver. The aborted bank heist that turns into a foot chase is one of the greatest action scenes of all time."

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"I’m not a huge fan of contemporary remakes, but one of the best of this century is Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Eleven. It’s such a great way of updating a movie. The remake is fantastic, the twist really works, and it’s beautiful to look at. I watched it again recently and thought: “This is a great movie.”"

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"It’s a Sidney Lumet film from the early 70s with Sean Connery, Christopher Walken and Martin Balsam. It’s got a Quincy Jones score. It’s a really interesting movie. I’m sure it was a big influence on Ocean's Eleven because it’s got a clever gotcha twist in it."

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"Stanley Kubrick’s first big hit and an amazing hard boiled movie. It’s amazing to see young Kubrick so in command."