Tuesday 31 July 2018

Working Girl (1988 Mike Nichols)

Another film you can pretty accurately date from the music - Q also can do it by the hair, so big it's like Marie Antoinette. This review is fine, apart from getting the date wrong by ten years... Mike Nichols is an actor's director - he, Griffith, Weaver and Joan Cusack were all Oscar nominated. Kevin Wade's screenplay is nice and simple, straightforward, just has that one unexpected plot twist, lovely ending...

Michael Ballhaus shot it (Florian first assistant, Shaun of the Dead's David Dunlap the operator), Sam O'Steen edits, production design by Patrizia von Brandenstein.

This would make another in the obscure screen shots season:



I love the scene between Griffiths and Ford in the street for two reasons - she doesn't tell him he has mayonnaise on the side of his mouth, and he's clearly her subordinate.

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