Are you afraid of what people will think? People will guess at what you're doing and they will guess wrongly, so you might as well do what you want anyway. Flip-side; you cannot know what other people are thinking, so don't worry about it. Do what you...
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https://vimeo.com/308798171 Dear friends, Happy New Year to you and best wishes for 2019. Thank-you for all your support of and interest in my work over the past 12 months - 2018 was of course the year production was completed on Distracted. The next stage is to distribute the...
Read MoreIn reverse chronological order Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960) Ludwig (Luchino Visconti, 1973) Treasure Of The Bitch Islands (FJ Ossang, 1990) The Case Of The Morituri Divisions (FJ Ossang, 1985) Hellzapoppin's (HC Potter, 1941) Dharma Guns (FJ Ossang, 2010) Wild Guitar (Ray Dennis Steckler, 1962) Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers (Larry E Jackson, 1967) Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock, 1964) Landscape...
Read MoreDistracted | @Distractedfilm Catherine Deneuve in Belle De Jour (Luis Bunuel, 1967). Elsa Martinelli and Marcello Mastroianni in The Tenth Victim (Elio Petri, 1965). Nominated by @ShipDrummer. Gene Tierney in Leave Her To Heaven (John M. Stahl, 1945). Nominated by @Doellnerphoto. Jean Martin in The Battle Of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo,...
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Distracted (57 mins, UK, 2018) 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. He’s...
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https://vimeo.com/305722020 If you cannot find the cinema culture you want to see and participate in, then you’ve got to create that culture yourself. This has been the driving idea behind all that I do in acting and filmmaking. I completed my feature film, Distracted, earlier in 2018,...
Read More"the only thing that is important is to work with directors of talent" - Michel Piccoli Michel Piccoli is one of the greatest actors of all time. His body of work is remarkable. It starts in 1949 and continues until today, and includes over 200 films. He has...
Read More[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="805"] Michel Piccoli with Manoel de Oliveira[/caption] Originally published in The Guardian in May 2002 By Peter Lennon It is probably unwise to suggest to one of France's leading film stars that actors are little more than marionettes. But Michel Piccoli, who has 170 films...
Read MoreDistracted | @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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