Nick's Film Jottings

About as close to a dream as you can get, whilst remarkably holding the attention, and quite unlike anything I've seen, inspiring though...

Carey Mulligan (BAFTA), Peter Sarsgaard (what a shit!), Alfred Molina, Olivia Williams (teacher), Rosamund Pike (her face of boredom in clas...

I really don't know where Powell was going with this one: where's the great talent he supposedly surrounds himself with? In this pal...

After Une Femme Douce  was over Q asked me if it was good, and I said "I don't know"... It has an astonishing opening and its ...

Existential 1950s night-time Paris, with Miles Davis score and even Lino Ventura: does Sunday morning get any better? Malle's debut foll...

Edmund Gwenn, Donald Crisp, a wooden Tom Drake, Janet Leigh. Ph. Charles Shoenbaum Lassie doesn't like water, gets chloroformed in very ...

Hitchcock apparently loved Tristana  and told Buñuel as much over dinner at Cukor's. I bet he coveted Catherine Deneuve's cool blond...

Also directed by Sam Wood and George Cukor. Amongst many Oscars were film and screenplay (Sidney Howard, from Margaret Mitchell's bestse...

Not quite what Dave Godin had led me to expect but for its year was a remarkably agile sound film rather contradicting Powell's lament ...

Splendidly acted (Arno Frisch manages to be chilling and funny), sly and more accessible than Haneke's other films (we recently caught T...

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 ...