Jerry Maguire (1996 Cameron Crowe & scr)

Early on when Jerry's being fired (it's a great scene - in that particular moment he notices what's around him) there's a track in to a glass of iced water - I wondered if it was in the same line of shots that Mark Cousins pointed out from Odd Man Out (glass of beer) to Jean-Luc Godard Two or Three Things I Know About Her to Scorsese in Taxi Driver.

Janusz Kaminski was on a rare break from Spielberg. Lovely sequence where camera circles Cruise and client, great cutting by Joe Hutshing. I enjoy this film more each time. Great scene where he first meets Renee and the kid wangles himself a swing between the couple's hands - thus linking them together. Only Cuba won the Oscar - Cruise, Crowe, Hutshing and Film nominated - BAFTA ignored it altogether.

Most interesting soundtrack of course - includes the Durutti Column. Great writing includes sequences with single women's group.

It was funny reading in assistant director Jerry Zeismer's book how Cameron was feeling at the beginning of the shoot - if he fucked up, he'd be the one walking, not Cruise.

To wake up, clap our hands and say 'This is going to be a great day' is not a bad way to go about things at all.

Scene where pissed Cruise and Jonathan Lipnicki bond further is memorable

'You had me at hello' is one of those great lines that only come around every ten years, and probably Cameron's most famous.