One Day Since Yesterday (2014 Bill Teck)

This was in a card Dorothy wrote to Peter just before she was killed.

So, Peter was a bit of a hot head and came over as arrogant. Dorothy would come up to him in meetings if he was being shouty and whisper in his ear 'Remember your heart' and that would make him laugh. Indeed it seemed she positively infected him with good humour and that's perhaps why the film is so fizzy. That he was able to complete it at all (sobbing during dailies) is a remarkable achievement and - as someone comments - you wouldn't know from the finished film.

In an emotional whirl he decided to buy the film back and release it. Here I didn't know, there were good reviews and strong runs, but he ran out of money. You have to have a marketing budget. And people just had it in for the boy wonder, even after Dorothy's murder. See the vile New York Times review for evidence.

Lots of interesting things are revealed. Peter and Patti had a little fling. Benny had clinical depression throughout filming. And he and Peter were estranged after filming. The secretary Linda McEwan was Peter's secretary. She and Sean had a fling (see - the title should have been Everybody's Bopping). The Bruce Springsteen song removed from Mask was emotionally significant to Peter (this is the only point in the film where he breaks up) and this is why he sued the studio - another not good move. What a fan Quentin is - he even knows trailers for God's sake ('Watch all of Peter's trailers' he says, 'They're like little 'Making of' films'). The great (long take) scene with Ben and Peter's daughters - they're basically talking about Peter and his relationships.

Useful contributions from most of the cast. The most significant omission is that co-writer Blaine is not in the film and not even referred to much, particularly in that role (the shots of the original screenplay show only Peter's name as author). And nice to conclude with She's Funny That Way on location scenes, which Wes and Noah like to think of as the film made straight after They All Laughed.

Blaine in 2011

But, at the time of writing, the Region 1 only DVD of the film has just six reviews on Amazon. Six. Including 'They All Laughed: You Won't' and 'Pretty Poor film'. Some people are fucking idiots - the comments on IMDB support this theory...

Also loved the thought of one of the critics that this was the last of the films of that incredible decade of personal expression in American cinema - the seventies.