Nicolas Cage shares surprising list of top 5 favorite films he’s done

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“The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” Thursday, the Academy Award winner took a trip down memory lane with the host while promoting his new film, “Renfield.”While Cage, whose real name is Nicolas Coppola, has some impressive blockbusters under his belt — including “National Treasure,” “Moonstruck,” and “The Rock” — the 59-year-old’s top five is comprised of his lesser-known work.“I’m going to start with ‘Pig’ that is my favorite movie I have ever made,” Cage told Colbert. “I love ‘Mandy,’ the movie that Panos [Cosmatos] directed.

I love ‘Bringing Out The Dead’ that Martin Scorsese directed. I loved ‘Bad Lieutenant’ [by] Werner Herzog. I loved a movie called ‘Joe’ that David Gordon Green directed.’“I got ‘Face/Off,'” Colbert chimed in, prompting Cage to agree with the film selection.“You know what is interesting about ‘Face/Off’ and I could have mentioned ‘Vampire’s Kiss’ because ‘Vampire’s Kiss’ was a little movie I made where I was able to explore my more abstract dreams with film performance.”“I was sadly playing a character who was losing his mind, but he was beginning to think that he was.

The Vampire from the original Nosferatu movie. And when you’re playing a character who’s losing his mind, he can believe he’s Nosferatu,” he explained.“So I gotta act like a German expressionist silent movie star, and that was cool, like these facial expressions and whatnot.

But ‘Face/Off’ was a big movie, a big studio movie that I made at Paramount, and I was able to use what I learned from this little ‘Vampire’s Kiss’ movie and put it in this giant movie.