Nick's Film Jottings

Paramount. $7.99 including p&p from iOffer - always check the quality! Claudette Colbert, Frederic March ph. Archie Stout (since 192...

Natalie Wood, Gene Kelly, Everett Sloane, Claire Trevor, Martin Milner, Carolyn Jones, Martin Balsam, Ed Wynn (uncle). Harry Stradling wou...

Christian Cooke, Tom Hughes & Jack Doolan, Felicity Jones, Ralph Fiennes, Emily Watson, Ricky Gervais, Julia Davis, Anne Reid (gran), Ma...

Ray Milland, Claude Rains being nasty, Maureen O'Hara, Yvonne Furneaux Music Nelson Riddle, ph. Jack Marta Film Four cropped the ...

Tatyana Samojlova, Aleksey Batalov, Vasili Merkuryev (father). Ph. by Sergei Urusevsky. Scene of air raid / seduction  is amazing. Also ...

Written by Guillermo Arriaga. Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Benecio del Toro, Melissa Leo (his wife), Charlotte Gainsbourg (Sean's ex), Eddi...

Paramount. Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Dan Duryea (pronounced 'Durr-ee-ay'), Carl Esmond (brother), Hillary Brooks (clairvoyant)...

Robert Morse (now in Mad Men ) guides Walter Matthau how to cheat 'sensitively' on Inger Stevens. Terry-Thomas and disappearin...

Director's cut. Billy Crudup (guitarist), Frances McDormand (AA nom), Patrick Fugit (William), Kate Hudson (AA nom), Jason Lee ( My Na...

Again! Because of our hotel. Jokes about America. 'Will and Kate Carlucci'. Pippo Franco is Qued's wonderful mortuary guy. So ...

Written by Leone and Sergio Donati; story by Bertolucci, Argento & Leone! Claudia Cardinale, Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Jason Robar...

(The son of Max.) French experience of World War Two told in fascinating detail by cross-section of society, including farmer/resistance who...

As Q was asleep. With Adolfo Celi, Claudine Auger, Luciana Paluzzi, even Philip Stone is in it! Ph. Ted Moore, Panavision. Music John Barry....

Ulrich Mühe has one of those remarkable faces that changes in minute registers and manages to express some quiet, complex emotions. He lived...

And so to the now rated BARRY LYNDON which was not at all boring, as I and the dogs found last time when Q. was in Tenegrief (actually the d...

As engaging as the last time I saw it, and definitely one of the director's most accessible films, shot with hard light (particularly in...

And a documentary about Soy Cuba ('a Siberian mammoth found in the Caribbean sand') reveals the dominance of Urusevsky, who sounds ...

Godard's Jules et Jim  is as light and funny as a souffle. For example, Odile's kiss "with tongue" (a diffident Anna Karin...

Leslie Phillips ('Ding dong!'), James Robertson Justice, Shirley Anne Field, Joan Sims, Arthur Haynes (funny as difficult patient), ...

* Not actuall y true. Claims made on blog may be false as well as true. Near the beginning of Mikhail Kalatozov's eye-popping SOY CUB...