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Magnified Cinema | Top 10 Film List

20.05.2018 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 15 Comments

Distracted | @Distractedfilm Alfred Hitchcock Presents "Decoy" (1959, directed by Arnold Levan). Nominated by @Bakerdave76, @lintlevieno and @12pt9. Chungking Express (Kar-Wai Wong, 1994). Thanks to @12pt9. The Defector (Raoul Levy, 1966). And thanks @SkotArmstrong. Mr Arkadin (Orson Welles, 1955). And thanks to @AllanHolloway for this. Charulata (Satyajit Ray, 1964). Thanks @Chandanrawal316. "Why do you say jump?" "Because...

Top 10 Cinema Simians

07.05.2018 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 0 Comments

Distracted | @Distractedfilm Laurel and Hardy with Ethel in The Chimp (James Parrott, 1932). @StefP nominated this one. Morgan: A Suitable Case For Treatment (Karel Reisz, 1966). Thanks to @KafkaBoots for this. Max Mon Amour (Nagisa Oshima, 1986). @Kafkaboots nominated this one too, as did @PaulvonMitchell. Marlene Dietrich, Blonde Venus (Josef Von...

Top 10 Cinema Pyjamas

15.04.2018 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 24 Comments

Distracted | @Distractedfilm Brigitte Bardot with Marcello Mastroianni in A Very Private Affair (Louis Malle, 1962). Thanks to @HansHerklots for this. James Cagney and Mae Clarke in Public Enemy (William A. Wellman, 1931). Suggested by @MissVanos13. Sophia Loren in A Countess From Hong Kong (Charles Chaplin, 1967). Bourvil and Louis De...

Top 10 Old Technology

01.04.2018 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 0 Comments

Distracted | @Distractedfilm Investigation Of A Citizen Above Suspicion (Elio Petri, 1970). His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940). Thank-you @GloriaBB2. [caption id="attachment_175662469" align="aligncenter" width="2000"] The Soft Skin (Francois Truffaut, 1964). Thanks to @MrIvanJohnson for sending this. Billion Dollar Brain (Ken Russell, 1967). Suggested by @norwest. Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1970). Thanks to @SimoneNomegia. The Big Heat...

Top 10 Theatre-In-Cinema

11.02.2018 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 14 Comments

Distracted | @Distractedfilm Children Of Paradise (Marcel Carne, 1945). Nominated by @AlexaCitron, @Heero99, @RosemaryGolding and @VIFFSTER. The Dresser (Peter Yates, 1983). This was suggested by @egorm. Opening Night (John Cassavetes, 1977) And @ThoCl suggested this. The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie (Luis Bunuel, 1972). Thanks to @sondosmusa. The Last Metro (Francois Truffaut, 1980). @JHPCine nominated...

Top 10 Cinema Reflections

15.01.2018 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 1 Comment

Distracted | @Distractedfilm Jean Marais in Jean Cocteau's Orpheus (1950). Nominated by @RosieLGolding and @PaulVonMitchell Dirk Bogarde and James Fox in The Servant (Joseph Losey, 1963). Thanks to @universderien. Giorgio Albertazzi and Delphine Seyrig in Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961). And thanks to @heeo99 for this. Orson Welles and Rita...

Top 10 People-In-Cinema-Wearing-Hats

26.12.2017 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 0 Comments

Distracted | @Distractedfilm Giulietta Masina, Juliet Of The Spirits (Federico Fellini, 1965). Nominated by @SkotArmstrong. Peter Lorre in Mr Moto Takes A Vacation (Norman Foster, 1939). Thanks to @HansHerklots. Michel Piccoli. Here with Brigitte Bardot in Le Mepris (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963). Suggested by @Maxkir77. Sun Ra in Space Is The Place (John...

The Top 10 Armchair Filmmakers

12.12.2017 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 1 Comment

Distracted | @Distractedfilm "In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things, but to give people the desire to see." - Agnes Varda. (Nominated by @RomantikKurbaa.) "Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of...

Top 10 Cinema Swag

26.11.2017 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 18 Comments

Distracted | @Distractedfilm The top 10 swag, the top 10 cash, the top 10 green, the top 10 moolah, the moolah, the moosh, the moo moo, the spondooli, the readies, the notes, the top 10 filthy lucre. Here they are. And in no particular order. Danger: Diabolik (Mario Bava,...

The Top 10 Actors-In-Stripes

14.10.2017 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 1 Comment

Distracted | @Distractedfilm Thanks again to everyone who took the time to suggest titles. Notable exclusions this time included; Visconti's Death In Venice, Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin and Richard Harris in Mutiny On The Bounty. Anyway, as always, in no particular order. Jean Seberg in Jean-Luc Godard's A bout...

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