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Tickets Are Now On Sale For Distracted’s Premiere

15.03.2019 , Distracted , 1 Comment

Distracted + live Q&A, The Attic at Hackney Picturehouse Sunday 07 April 2019 5.30pm, tickets £8. Distracted (UK, 2018, 57 mins) A bored detective has no interest in solving the murder he has been assigned to, preferring to drink scotch and read novels. His new partner, however, is...

Find What You Love – The Wisdom Of Michael Caine | The Great Acting Blog

11.03.2019 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

"Find what you love and do it as well as you can" On Michael Caine's wonderful new book, Blowing The Bloody Doors Off And Other Lessons In Life. I listened to the audiobook which has the added bonus of being narrated by Michael Caine himself. His warm,...

Top 9 False Beards In Cinema

09.03.2019 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 0 Comments

Distracted | @Distractedfilm To Be Or Not To Be (Ernst Lubitsch, 1942). Nominated by @DancerOnFilm and @lintlvieno. Buster Keaton, Spite Marriage (Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton, 1929). Life Of Brian (Terry Jones, 1979). Jack Lemmon - Irma La Douce (Billy Wilder, 1963). Thanks to @kteltowers for this. MARX BROTHERS DOUBLE BILL A...

Noir-ish Project – 2019 Vintage

14.02.2019 , Noirish Project , 0 Comments

Delighted that a brand new cut of my 2013 feature film, Noirish Project, is almost ready. Join the newsletter and stay updated Bleak, melancholy, neorealist feature film masquerading as film noir. A couple of low-lifes try to make some quick cash but end up just waiting around. Noirish...

The Great Acting Blog: “When Should You Quit?”

11.02.2019 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

We understand what happens to us in relation to what we want. The actor who commits the rest of his life to his work, the one who says "I'm never going to stop", reacts differently to the inevitable stresses and strains to the one who...

Distracted Screening Series Successfully Funded

02.02.2019 , Distracted , 0 Comments

I'm thrilled to inform you that Distracted's Screening Series is now 100% funded. Thank-you again to all backers and supporters for your vote of confidence in the project - it means so much. There's still a few days left in the campaign, please do check it out if...

The Top 10 Cups-Of-Tea-In-Cinema

31.01.2019 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 0 Comments

Distracted | @Distractedfilm The Double Life Of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1991). Related; 'The Shy Poetry Of Irene Jacob'. Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean in Giant (George Stevens, 1956). Nominated by @HansHerklots & @GloriaBB2. Maggie Cheung in In The Mood For Love (Kar-Wai Wong, 2000). @doinel74 nominated this one. "in...

The Great Acting Blog: “Think About The People Who Make You Strong”

22.01.2019 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

How can we refine our thinking about our work in such a way that it inspires us to take action? Afterall, our thinking needs to be in good order because what we think eventually becomes what we do. Make a list of people who you would...

The Cinephile Actor – Tilda Swinton | The Great Acting Blog

15.01.2019 , The Great Acting Blog , 29 Comments

"When asked to describe his enduring collaboration with Swinton over the years, Guadagnino pauses. “Tilda is a filmmaker, not just an actress. She has a great knowledge of the machine of the making of a movie and this is very profound, because it’s like working...

The Great Acting Blog: “Peter Brook On Acting”

12.01.2019 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

"Acting is in many ways unique in it's difficulties because the artist has to use the treacherous, changeable and mysterious material of himself as his medium" - Peter Brook, The Act Of Possession...

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