Pick Six

“My first name? You can’t even spell your own first name!”

"I was just minding my own business and he turned to me and asked if I knew the lyrics to Fetty Wap."

Since it’s our Screen issue, we had to get the picks of one of our finest ever filmmakers - Jeanie Finlay

“Yes, I’m a nincompoop, you can’t take me anywhere!”

“Mum, that’s exactly the kind of phrase that’ll get you shanked.”

“ARMS! They're the traditional cuddling limbs.”

“I don't need Bluetooth, I've got dentures.”

Girl 1: “That is soooo gay.”

Girl 2: “Ermmm…. You can’t use the word gay like that any more.”

Girl 1: “What? Shut up. I’ve got a list of favourite lesbians.”

Drunk guy waiting for the bus at 2am: "I've gotta do someone's tattoo when I get home. It's only a small one though."

Book

I am obsessed with the sharp wit and tongue of Patricia Highsmith. Her books are all good but The Talented Mr Ripley is just brilliant. I bought an anthology of the photographer Diane Arbus - Revelations - last year after seeing a retrospective of her work in Copenhagen. It has scans of her sketchbooks, notes scribbled in the margins as well as all her major work. It’s absolutely astonishing.

Song

I’m a lifelong Dolly Parton fan and especially fond of her closer to heaven high-hair, melancholic story-song era from the late sixties and seventies.

Songs like Down from Dover, The Bridge and my favourite, Bargain Store Film

It has to be After Life by Hirokazu Kore-eda. A fictional film by the Japanese master, shaped by his years making documentaries. It poses big questions about memory, love and storytelling. If you could choose just one memory to hold on to for eternity, what would it be?

Holiday Destination

Japan is the most fun, inspiring and interesting place I’ve ever been. I made my first ever documentary project, HomeMaker, out there in 2003, interviewing older, housebound people in central Tokyo, and I went back just before the pandemic. I’m hoping to get out there again soon, to unleash my rusty Japanese onto the unsuspecting public.

Meal

I recently visited the new Notts restaurant Mollis (next door to Alchimella) and I can’t wait to have their fried chicken, soft serve artichoke icecream and incredible banana miso rum cocktail again. Chef Alex Bond is the master of surprising and utterly delicious flavour combinations. So good.

Notts Spot

I really love visiting Primary, it fills me with such hope that this vibrant, independent creative endeavour (like my base at the brilliant Broadway Cinema) is thriving. Buying baked goods from Small Food Bakery, getting a drink or visiting the exhibition at Beam Art, Books & Coffee (most recently great work by John Newling) is a joy.

Pixar really hit the mark when they made Toy Story , an animated movie about toys, and then sold toys of those toys.

Nottingham’s most opinionated grocers on...

Favourite films

Our favourite film ever is Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949). It’s an absolute classic. Others in the top five would be: Withnail and I (1987), we particularly love the way the music is used in that film; A Shot In The Dark (1964) with Peter Sellers being fantastic; Hide and Seek (1964) with Ian Carmichael, which we only saw recently but very much enjoyed; and finally, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), which is probably the funniest film we’ve ever seen.

James Bond

We love James Bond, but mostly for the cars. As films, they’re actually quite boring and predictable. We very much liked Daniel Craig in the role though. Roger Moore is our favourite Bond but both Daniel Craig and Pierce Brosnan run him close. However, the best Bond line of all-time was spoken by Sean Connery in Dr No (1962), when Ursula Andress comes out of the sea and says, “What are you doing here, looking for shells?” and he says, “No, I’m just looking.”

Best Nottingham On-Screen Moment

It’s got to be Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960). We know there’s been other moments since, but that was the pinnacle for us. Every time we saw it on television our father would say the exact same thing: “That was the days when you could go up and down Derby Road on a bus.” He couldn’t care less about the plot or the characters, just the bus and traffic lanes on screen.

Spotted Ilkeston town Anyone any idea who owns this cat? Currently in new look chilling in the fitting room

Spotted: Long Eaton go to the post office to send a parcel and when they ask to weigh it just hand them your baby. hope this helps

STAPLEFORD COMMUNITY GROUP

A family of five moved into the pot hole on Derby Road, so easing the housing crisis I guess

Spotted: Long Eaton Can't beat 4 litres of cider down by the canal for a good night out

Arnold Community Group UK Sounds to me like you just stole someone’s cat!

Spotted Eastwood Dodgy bloke last night knocking on doors trying to sell fairy tablets

Beeston Updated I would love to squeeze it for you

Spotted: Long Eaton

The fact you drink carling sums up this whole post

Burton Joyce Village, Nottinghamshire Just heard on BBC R2 - a song dedicated to "Burt and Joyce in Nottinghamshire" apparently it was 'their' engagement song! Surely not??

Beeston Updated few extra inch never hurt no one June

Spotted Ilkeston town Classy as the clap

Beeston Updated This was the biggest one on offer today. Nearly half a metre of girthy green goodness!

Burton Joyce Village, Nottinghamshire would an over weight man of pension age be welcome……… i have no leotard!!!

WHATS HAPPENING IN HUCKNALL AND SURROUNDING AREAS

Does the thought of covering a cake in fondant bring you out in a cold sweat?

Spotted Ilkeston town tried this mate. Couldn't get owt for my feet pics.. in fact I lost money.. some how

Spotted Long Eaton Hey, I’m looking forward to someone who can remove blood stains

Arnold Community Group UK Wow! Yellow downpipe!!

Spotted Kimberley & Eastwood

Does anyone know what happened to the two women having a punch up outside heron foods? Love a bit of gossip me

Spotted Long Eaton

Does anyone know this person? Or recognise her arse? Or car? She decided it was ok to use by the side of my front door as a toilet!

Carlton/Gedling Nottingham Community Group oh shut up val

Retford Information Page who in their right mind would go near his down below