"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,...
Read MoreDistracted | @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...
Read MoreDelighted 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...
Read MoreWe 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...
Read MoreI'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...
Read MoreDistracted | @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...
Read MoreHow 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...
Read More"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...
Read More"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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Distracted (57 mins, UK, 2018) Buy Now A tragi-comic detective story, Distracted undermines the conventions of the genre in order to explore the absurdity of one man’s state of being. An ironic policiers about Detective Henry Baker, assigned to a murder which he has no interest in solving....
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