Nick's Film Jottings

Ennio Morricone. John Barry. Bernard Herrmann. Thomas Newman. Georges Auric.

It's sadly early to start this list (5 January) but unfortunately we have a contender already, Hunting Wives , some crap about a woman w...

Everyone's got so much money - "That house looks like a hotel" sort of thing, "This is my Tuesday Porsche". Then a c...

James Goldman adapted his own play, but a mix of location shooting and artful staging makes this quite cinematic; editor John Bloom knows wh...

Marty and Paul Schrader's best films. For all Travis's madness and disgust, he somewhat surprisingly becomes the saviour (the Knight...

“Anything happens to my daughter, I’ve got a .45 and a shovel." Alicia Silverstone's character Cher is quite sweet really - she doe...

I had the day planned well: Strangers When We Meet , Petulia and Taxi Driver , but Q decided she wanted to watch Vice . The only problem wi...

Margaret Sullavan and Douglass Montgomery share a bed - this is just before the Hays Code really clamped down. They are a couple who are str...

 I like all the profile shots:  https://nicksfilmjottings.blogspot.com/2019/08/vertigo-1958-ah.html This is definitely one of Hitch's mo...

Much to everyone's surprise, Kerri-Kenney Silver helps look after Erika Henningsen's baby. Colman Domingo and Marco Calvani decide a...

From the inserts it looks like it was filmed in 1928. Must have been one of Fox's last silent film releases. This obviously can't co...

Ellen Burstyn and son Alfred Lutter are skint; she dreams of happiness in Monterey, and to be a singer. They get stuck in Arizona and she ha...

The group reunite at Miles' huge country pad. Egg and Millie are still together, amazingly, but it seems only a pretence; Egg has writte...

Fairly cheesy crime / family drama / food thing set in Italy (Croatia). A (police) man, Warren Brown, who's recently lost his (Italian) ...

The last season. Deborah has been branded 'the woman who killed late night', still banned from getting a gig. But announces when the...

The style isn't sustainable: everything in close up, whip pans, sudden edits. It's exhausting. The Pantomime Bitch Queen turns up. R...

Casino manager Michael Socha (fabulously weary and depressed) and employee Sheridan Smith find out each other has been stealing, Socha to re...

There are four people who helped make this film as great as it is, though most people won't know the names. The first two are the film...

"I get the distinct feeling that I'm lost," says photographer Clint to Italian housewife Meryl Streep, and so a Brief Encounte...