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Top 10 Filmmakers-In-Overcoats

07.08.2018 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 24 Comments

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." -...

Audrey Hepburn In Love In The Afternoon – Performance Is Personality

29.07.2018 , The Great Acting Blog , 3 Comments

Subscribe | @GreatActingBlog Hepburn plays Arianne Chavasse, the daughter of a private detective who specialises in creating dossiers on illicit affairs for cheated spouses. Hepburn takes an unnatural interest in her father's work, delving into his filing cabinet and hungrily reading up on his juiciest cases....

Top 10 Curious-Cinematic-Debuts

25.07.2018 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 0 Comments

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...

The Great Acting Blog: “How To Play Weak”

12.07.2018 , The Great Acting Blog , 32 Comments

We don’t like showing we are in a weak position, we don’t like showing that we need something. We don’t like revealing a vulnerability - it’s degrading, it’s embarrassing, it may even be humiliating, and we leave ourselves wide open to being damaged. This is...

Top 10 Strange-Cinematic-Siblings

01.07.2018 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 28 Comments

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...

Top 10 Movie Theatres

18.06.2018 , Uncategorized , 7 Comments

Distracted | @Distractedfilm The Castro Theatre, San Francsco. The Orpheum Theatre, Downtown Los Angeles. Thanks to @SkotArmstrong for the next three. Touring Broadway's Last Great Movie Palace: the Los Angeles . In a town with some of the most beautiful movie palaces, the most popular venue in Hollywood is a...

Distracted Is Now Complete

11.06.2018 , Distracted , 0 Comments

Distracted | @Distractedfilm preparing on set Dear friends, I am delighted to inform you that Distracted is now complete. Distracted has been more complex than any other project we’ve undertaken. As such, it’s been a long and winding road, with wrong turns, dead ends and harsh lessons, but also...

Top 10 Actors-In-Cars-In-Hitchcock

07.06.2018 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 30 Comments

Distracted | @Distractedfilm About 10 years ago we created the list; Top 10 Actors-In-Cars-In-Cinema, and ended up with many nominations for actors in cars in Hitchcock's films. So many in fact, that we thought it would make a list of it's own. So, all these years...

Magnified Cinema | Top 10 Film List

20.05.2018 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 29 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...

The Great Acting Blog: “David Mamet Discusses His New Play”

12.05.2018 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

https://soundcloud.com/theeconomist/the-economist-asks-what-is Davis Mamet on terrific form discussing his new play, Bitter Wheat, inspired by an interchange he had with an actress, #metoo and Harvey Weinstein. Here's an excerpt from the interview...

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