Nick's Film Jottings

Another one of these fashionable dramatized true stories, this about how Prince Andrew was suckered into a live TV interview. The importance...

What a mass of European talent enriched Hollywood in the 1930s and 40s. Though foreign talent had been welcomed in the twenties, with the li...

I rather enjoyed this despite its 5.8 IMDB Rating. A woman - let's call her Viveca Lindfors - emerges crying from a somewhat creepy Flor...

Don's debut having risen from the head of the montage department at Warners, where he created 'thousands' of them. It's a hi...

Why do we now need an eight hour version of Ritchie's OK film? Theo James inherits the Estate (and all within), that's Kaya Scodelar...

Ben Barzman screenplay very loosely based on Emlyn Williams play (which takes place after  the execution). Alcoholic Michael Redgrave knows ...

Cannes Palme D'Or winner. Did German Sandra Hüller kill her French husband Samuel Theis? Their son Milo Machado-Graner is able to shed a...

Almost a Bresson (no music). Written by Jean Genet. A frustrated school teacher is setting fires in a small French village. She identifies a...

Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Short Stories. Episode 1: Magic (or Something Less Certain) In his usual long take back of car style, two girls goss...

Pain in the arse (but highly decorated) Gunnery Sergeant Highway (I know) returns to his final post as a marine corps trainer. Luckily he...

Russell brings a wonderful fluidity to this, assisted by Masanobu Takayanagi's highly mobile camera and vibrant editing from the great J...

This wasn't quite as fresh and original as I was hoping. The point of difference I suppose is that the Catholic girls are sex-starved an...

It's a sneaky bastard, and an atypical Wilder film. Unusually, Marlene is guilty of some overacting. You would have thought that she and...

Billy and Izzy's film was reviled on release - you can see why - it sails on uncomfortable waters (if that doesn't mix up too many m...

Shifting points of view: the film seems to be about the two boys who are left at hard-as-nails Grandmothers'; though Richard Dreyfuss is...

A film for grown ups. Young American artist Jean Seberg's experiences of love in France. She dates a terribly annoying man Phillippe Fou...

Jon Cleary's novel 'The High Commissioner' adapted to screen by William Greatorex, none too successfully. For some obscure reaso...

An unusual and tough British drama from HUAC refugee Cy Endfield, billed here as 'C. Ryker Endfield', who adapted John Kruse's s...