Everyone is so great in this - they're bringing A game to B material - but Malkovich is so especially good, I can't help but feel that we're all worse off for him and the Coens never having collaborated again.

This has none of the breakneck energy you'd associate with the Safdies, little of the dark humour and grit; it's only really the street realism and casting of non-actors in principle roles that are carried over. Curious to see Marty Supreme to see if Josh got to keep that punk style in the divorce.

My top five Clift performances: The Heiress, I Confess, From Here to Eternity, The Misfits, Judgment at Nuremberg. From internal and enigmatic in The Heiress and I Confess, via a near Brando-like intensity in Eternity, to jittery, unpredictable, heartbreaking in Misfits and Nuremberg.

PTA just gets DDL as no other director does; he's a transformative actor, yes, but he's also rather silly. He will dance in a sozzled rage, he will react to the crunching of toast like it's the most insulting act in the world. It's like how Scorsese is the only one who knows that De Niro is funny.