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Top 10 Actors-Having-A-Shave | Film List

Distracted | @Distractedfilm Buster Keaton in Steamboat Bill Jr (Buster Keaton, Charles Reisner, 1928). Suggested by @Devonkiwi. Peter Bernuth in Martin Scorsese's short, The Big Shave (1967). Nominated by @Paulslr70. Edward G. Robinson in Key Largo (John Huston, 1948). This was my pick. George O'Brien in Sunrise: A Song Of Two Humans...

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Actors-Reading-Books-Smoking Top 10 List

Distracted | @Distractedfilm Antoine Boursellier and Brigitte Bardot in Jean-Luc Godard's Masculin Feminin (1966). Nominated by @MRYM_15. "Popcorn girl Lisa Rosen smoking and reading "Crash" by J. G. Ballard in Jim Jarmusch's 'Permanent Vacation'. (1980)". Thank-you @lunarscp. Terence Stamp in Teorema (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1968). Thank-you @raingurrrl. Haydee Politoff in La Collectionneuse...

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Top 10 Cups-Of-Coffee-In-Cinema

Distracted | @Distractedfilm Matti Pellonpaa and Malto Valtonen in Aki Kaurismaki's Take Care Of Your Scarf, Tatiana (1994). Nominated by @doinel74. Twins - Coffee And Cigarettes (Jim Jarmusch, 2003). This was my pick.   "Put. That coffee. Down. Coffee's for closers only.", Alec Baldwin tells Jack Lemmon in the film version...

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Top 10 Cinema Spoons

Distracted | @Distractedfilm The Immigrant (Charlie Chaplin, 1917). Thank-you @GloriaBB2. Catherine Deneuve in Luis Bunuel's Tristana (1970). Jitka Cerhova in Daises (Vera Chytilova, 1966). And thanks to @CravingFlight for this.   Audrey Tautou in Amelie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001). And thanks @doinel74 for this. Birgitta Valberg and Max Von Sydow in The Virgin Spring,(Ingmar Bergman...

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Top 10 Soapy Cinema

Distracted | @Distractedfilm Marlene Dietrich in Knight Without Armour (Jacques Feyder, 1937). Peter Sellers in The Party (Blake Edwards, 1968). Nominated by @tueettrin. Charlotte Rampling in Georgy Girl (Silvio Narizzano, 1966). Thanks @FilmMad. Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson in Missouri Breaks (Arthur Penn, 1976). Thanks again @mskathleenquinn. Sybil Seely in One Week (Buster...

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Top 10 Sandy Cinema | Film List

Distracted | @Distractedfilm Leningrad Cowboys Go America (Aki Kaurismaki, 1989). Thanks to @Doinel74. Slack Bay (Bruno Dumont, 2016). @filmad suggested this. El Topo (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1970). Nominated by @12pt9. Divorce Italian Style (Pietro Germi, 1963). Ice Cold In Alex (J Lee Thompson, 1958). And @realarsenalism nominated this one. Woman Of The Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964). Nominated...

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Top 10 Filmmakers-In-Overcoats

Distracted | @Distractedfilm "Make visible what, without you, might never have been seen" - Robert Bresson. Thank-you @Hanna1960.   "When humour can be made to alternate with humour, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful." -...

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Top 10 Curious-Cinematic-Debuts

Distracted | @Distractedfilm "Robert De Niro’s film debut was as an extra in Three Rooms in Manhattan (1965)". - @SkotArmstrong De Niro debuts with Marcel Carné. Who’d have thought that. Steve McQueen in The Blob. Apparently he hated the film and hoped it would never be released. Shame...

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Top 10 Strange-Cinematic-Siblings

Distracted | @Distractedfilm Nicole Stephane and Edouard Dermithe in Les Enfants Terribles (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1950). Jean Cocteau and Jean-Pierre Melville joined forces for this adaptation of Cocteau’s wicked novel about the wholly unholy relationship between a brother and sister, Elisabeth and Paul, who close themselves off from...

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