Nick's Film Jottings

Wednesday, 25 September 2024

Cry of the City (1948 Robert Siodmak)

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Another interesting film from Siodmak, this one firmly rooted in the Italian community of New York. Arrogant criminal Richard Conte has kill...
Tuesday, 24 September 2024

The L-Shaped Room (1962 Bryan Forbes & scr)

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A melancholy film, shot on location in seedy Notting Hill, then quite a dangerous place. Leslie Caron is a young and pregnant French girl wh...

The Magic Box (1951 John Boulting)

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Eric Ambler's screenplay - based on Ray Allister (aka Muriel Forth)'s biography - begins at the end of inventor Willy Freise-Greene...
Sunday, 22 September 2024

St. Vincent (2014 Theodore Melfi & scr)

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A lovely film, Theo's best. Bill Murray was beginning to make me think of Beat Takeshi a bit in that they're both quite impassive......

The Color Purple (1985 Steven Spielberg)

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Menno Mayjes adapted Alice Walker's novel (she was the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize), a novel which has frequently b...
Saturday, 21 September 2024

One Two Three (1961 Billy Wilder & co-scr)

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Izzy and Billy's screenplay is based on Ferenc Molnar's play, so the solid structure is already there. It's what they do within ...

The Shawshank Redemption (1994 Frank Darabont & scr)

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What makes a great film? Well, first of all you need a great story, and a great screenplay (these two are not the same thing). Then you need...

ソナチネ / Sonatine (1993 Takeshi Kitano & scr, ed)

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A familiar deadpan tale of the Yakuza, and a turf war being fought in Okinawa. Then the gang hide out at the beach, and things start taking ...
Friday, 20 September 2024

Infamous (2006 Doug McGrath & scr)

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Toby Jones is fantastic as Truman Capote and the film runs deeper then we remembered - he seems to lose his heart to convicted murderer Dani...
Thursday, 19 September 2024

The Glass Key (1942 Stuart Heisler)

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Jonathan Latimer adapted Dashiel Hammett's 1931 novel. Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake are reteamed after the same year's  This Gun For ...

More Netflix Bollocks

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I don't know what's happened to Susanne Bier, she used to be great - see The Bald Hairdresser , or The Night Manager . But since tha...

10 Things I Hate About You (1999 Gil Junger) - all the reviews

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September 2013: Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger (not really looking happy, though I loved the improv bum smack when the cops are after him), Jose...
Wednesday, 18 September 2024

Dancing With Crime (1947 John Paddy Carstairs)

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What's with the no headlights? All the cars have funny little sidelights. I presume it's some sort of deal with rationing, but it...
Tuesday, 17 September 2024

Blood Simple (1984 Joel Coen)

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Also Frances McDormand's debut. Joel and Ethan wrote it and it's clearly a descendant of film noir  - the moment the car won't s...

Kiss the Blood off My Hands (1948 Norman Foster)

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Burt Lancaster punches a man in a pub who falls and dies.. he goes on the run and takes shelter in the flat of Joan Fontaine. But dodgy bast...
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