After the release of The Lighthouse, which is often cited as his magnum opus, Eggers participated in a conversation with Rotten Tomatoes where he was asked to name his favourite films. The director quickly cited seminal filmmaking pioneers such as Ingmar Bergman and F.W. Murnau as major influences.
Eggers also listed Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1966 Soviet epic Andrei Rublev among his favourites. While talking about the film’s final scene, Eggers commented: “The last act, or the last movement of Andrei Rublev is probably just the best thing in cinema history. That bell casting sequence is just so powerful.”
Source: Robert Eggers names “the best thing in cinema history”