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Top 10 Cinema Simians

Distracted | @Distractedfilm Laurel and Hardy with Ethel in The Chimp (James Parrott, 1932). @StefP nominated this one. Morgan: A Suitable Case For Treatment (Karel Reisz, 1966). Thanks to @KafkaBoots for this. Max Mon Amour (Nagisa Oshima, 1986). @Kafkaboots nominated this one too, as did @PaulvonMitchell. Marlene Dietrich, Blonde Venus (Josef Von...

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Top 10 Cinema Pyjamas

Distracted | @Distractedfilm Brigitte Bardot with Marcello Mastroianni in A Very Private Affair (Louis Malle, 1962). Thanks to @HansHerklots for this. James Cagney and Mae Clarke in Public Enemy (William A. Wellman, 1931). Suggested by @MissVanos13. Sophia Loren in A Countess From Hong Kong (Charles Chaplin, 1967). Bourvil and Louis De...

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Top 10 Old Technology

Distracted | @Distractedfilm Investigation Of A Citizen Above Suspicion (Elio Petri, 1970). His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940). Thank-you @GloriaBB2. [caption id="attachment_175662469" align="aligncenter" width="2000"] The Soft Skin (Francois Truffaut, 1964). Thanks to @MrIvanJohnson for sending this. Billion Dollar Brain (Ken Russell, 1967). Suggested by @norwest. Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1970). Thanks to @SimoneNomegia. The Big Heat...

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Top 10 Theatre-In-Cinema

Distracted | @Distractedfilm Children Of Paradise (Marcel Carne, 1945). Nominated by @AlexaCitron, @Heero99, @RosemaryGolding and @VIFFSTER. The Dresser (Peter Yates, 1983). This was suggested by @egorm. Opening Night (John Cassavetes, 1977) And @ThoCl suggested this. The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie (Luis Bunuel, 1972). Thanks to @sondosmusa. The Last Metro (Francois Truffaut, 1980). @JHPCine nominated...

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Top 10 Cinema Reflections

Distracted | @Distractedfilm Jean Marais in Jean Cocteau's Orpheus (1950). Nominated by @RosieLGolding and @PaulVonMitchell Dirk Bogarde and James Fox in The Servant (Joseph Losey, 1963). Thanks to @universderien. Giorgio Albertazzi and Delphine Seyrig in Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961). And thanks to @heeo99 for this. Orson Welles and Rita...

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A Script Is Like A Dream

  A work of art is the expression of a feeling experienced by the artist: it is feeling fashioned into a fantastic form by the imagination. This is certainly true of a film script. The literal action of a script, the surface incidents, may be fictional, they may be weird,...

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