Nick's Film Jottings

Jim's gone so far out with this one I didn't really get it. Isaach de Bankolé plays another variation of Le Samourai  - accompanied ...

After three disappointments in a row I had to insist we watched something gold-plated. It's a joy.

There's a moment near the beginning at the wedding, where we see a man on coke skipping madly, then punching an onlooker and diving thro...

Rush has adapted Raymond Carver's short story "Why Don't You Dance". Though billed as a comedy, it isn't. Drunk Coli...

JM also adapted Anya Seton's novel to tell tale of God-fearing country girl Gene Tierney who's swept up in world of rich land-owner ...

You can tell Mr de Palma loves Hitchcock. There's fun to be had in identifying the references - film essentially mixes Rear Window  with...

...with Gavin Scott. Amiable comedy in which Simon Pegg gains ultimate powers from intergalactic beings called Sharon etc., voiced by Python...

We loved the cleverness of this production, written by Adrian Hodges ( My Week with Marilyn ), which partially sets the Peter Pan story in G...

We wish Sir Michael would stop doing American accents - it was that Oscar win for Cider House Rules  that did it. He could just have easily ...

Director of the well-known Pépé le Moko  and Tales of Manhattan ,  also a multi-story film with some of the same cast. In the most hauntin...

Danile Taplitz has adapted Louis de Bernière's brilliant short novel, which features Josh Lucas, Rachel Taylor, Noah Taylor, Rohan Nicho...

"There was no question of going to Hollywood to cast the part, because half of Hollywood was already in uniform over here. The Ministry...

Linklater did Boyhood . Tougher than you might think, last day of term in summer 1976 is craziness. And has a very realistic feel to it al...

What a fabulous idea - the story was by Pete and Ronnie, the screenplay by Pete, Meg LeFauve and Josh Cooley, and voices Amy Poehler ( Parks...

Hardly disguising its theatrical origins ("La Cage aux Folles" by Jean Poiret, itself filmed in France), Elaine May's adaptati...

Somewhat strange turn of events as couple start breaking into people's houses and having sex in them, that couple being Colin Firth and ...

ITV3 decided to run Carry On  films all day long. What a good idea.. Thus we had bits of Loving, Convenience, Jack  and Screaming popping u...

Peter Morgan somehow pulls off the trick of making both the Queen and Tony Blair likeable characters, superbly acted by Helen Mirren and Mic...

We feel for Saga (the excellent Sofia Helin), who's put through all sorts of mills in another fairly bonkers tale. New accomplice is Thu...

Director's cut looks slightly squeezed to me - or is it me? I'm certainly not squeezed - rather, broadened. My favourite line is s...