Nick's Film Jottings

Scr Frank S Nugent, novel Alan le May John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond ('Rev'), Natalie Wood, John Qualen, Henry ...

The Quantum Leap for Leone (seriousness, scale). It seems only right to watch Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo while reading Christopher F...

Written by Hamer and Frank Hardy from a novel by Howard Clewes. Tons of location atmosphere in moody Kent seafront and night silent towns,...

Cavalcade  is like an early version of This Happy Breed  (Noel Coward was 33). Diana Wynyard (one of those stare into the distance breed), C...

We were somewhat baffled and disappointed by Pawel Pawlikowski's treatment of Douglas Kennedy's The Woman in the Fifth . It was stun...

I was wondering what happened to Pawel Pawlikowski after winning Newcomer BAFTA for The Last Resort (2001) and film BAFTA for My Summer of ...

An accidental double-bill of Jim Broadbent films. In Young Victoria he has a short but powerful part as King William. Emily Blunt and Rupert...

We watch an interesting double bill about men dealing with the loss of their wives! Clive Owen does so by building relationships with his ...

Taking a rather different approach to dealing with the loss of his wife (in our double bill), an almost silent Vincent Price takes grisly re...

Juliet Mills on the terrace of the Grand Hotel Excelsior Vittoria , Sorrento, doubling for Ischia   Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills, Clive ...

Just the one Oscar, for writer Robert Towne (though Polanski worked so extensively on the script that he reportedly could have claimed co-au...

 Co-written with Bernardino Zapponi. Peter Gonzales Falcon, Anna Magnani. Music Nino Rota, ph. Giuseppe Rotunno. Astonishing film with a lot...

A double bill of Hitchcocks. There's quite a bit to be said about REBECCA. For example, it contradicts the theory that Citizen Kane inv...

Seems to have begun as a cinematic exercise. Robert Burks' photography is easy to underestimate but notice just one shot where camera...

Anton Walbrook, Edith Evans, Yvonne Mitchell, Ronald Howard Ph. Otto Heller Music Georges Auric Clock stops as she dies.

Warning: Old pros at work!

Written by Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière, Oscar-nominated (won BAFTA), winner of the Best Foreign Film Oscar and BAFTA. Interestingly didn...

Scorsese was so lucky to get Herrmann's last great score. According to Time Out   his "remarkable score was completed hours before ...

Demange had made Criminal Justice  (2009), Dead Set , Secret Diary of a Call Girl. Bennett had written Hidden, Public Enemies (Johnny Depp, ...

Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain, Hunter McCracken, Laramie Eppler. Photographed by Emmanuel Lubezki. Music by Alexandre Desplat. Hypnotic event,...