Nick Lowe

“This is… Great Expectations, directed by the great David Lean. Exquisitely done, absolutely cracking movie. I’m going to stick that in the bag of tricks here.”

“, there’s a good one, Repo Man. We used to have this on our tour bus. When I was touring with Elvis Costello, we used to have this on sort of permanently. Yeah, nice to see that one again.”

“Another one of my favorites, One-Eyed Jacks. It’s directed by Marlon Brando, who is the star along with his old mate, Karl Malden. Fabulous actor. This is from sometime in the early ’60s. ’61 or ’62, I think it came out. It was directed by Brando and, apparently, it went massively over budget. But it’s such a great story. And the acting, of course, is… is brilliant, with the two of them. It’s also got Slim Pickens in it, who’s one of my favorites, in his familiar role as a sort of redneck bully.”

“This is a good one for a Sunday afternoon with your feet up, recovering from something. The Flight of the Phoenix. Fantastic movie. This tells the story of a rickety old transport plane which crashes in the Libyan desert. And the transport plane is carrying a bunch of oil rig workers. Nobody knows they’ve crashed or where they are. There seems to be no chance of them being rescued, but they have this plan to build another plane out of the wreckage under the direction of Hardy Krüger.”