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Top 10 Filmmakers-In-Overcoats

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." -...

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Top 10 Curious-Cinematic-Debuts

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...

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Top 10 Strange-Cinematic-Siblings

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...

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Top 10 Movie Theatres

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...

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Distracted Is Now Complete

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...

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Magnified Cinema | Top 10 Film List

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...

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