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Top 10 Cinema Simians

07.05.2018 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 0 Comments

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...

Reflections On Distracted: “The Meeting Point – An Artistic Experience”

29.04.2018 , Distracted , 0 Comments

Distracted | @Distractedfilm "it's only the execution that counts" - Jean Renoir on filmmaking. Cinema happens when the intention of the filmmaker meets reality, and it happens only then. That vision that the director sees in their mind’s eye? It’s not a vision. That thing in their mind...

Top 10 Cinema Pyjamas

15.04.2018 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 36 Comments

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...

Ray Milland In The Lost Weekend – A Defence Of A Great Performance | The Great Acting Blog

08.04.2018 , The Great Acting Blog , 38 Comments

In Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend, Ray Milland delivers one of the great Hollywood performances. He plays Don Birham, a writer so plagued by self-doubt that he addicts himself to alcohol in order to cope. The action takes place over four days: Milland is supposed...

Top 10 Old Technology

01.04.2018 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 6 Comments

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...

Cut The Most Important Idea

18.03.2018 , Distracted , 2 Comments

Distracted | @Distractedfilm https://vimeo.com/205950129 Our series of posts reflecting on Distracted continues...

Top 10 Films-Set-In-New-York-During-The-60s-And-70s

08.03.2018 , Uncategorized , 0 Comments

Distracted | @Distractedfilm Thanks to @SkotArmstrong for this Andy Warhol double bill...

Top 10 Theatre-In-Cinema

11.02.2018 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 37 Comments

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...

Top 10 Cinema Reflections

15.01.2018 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 1 Comment

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...

A Script Is Like A Dream

01.01.2018 , Distracted, The Great Acting Blog , 11 Comments

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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