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...
Read MoreDistracted | @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...
Read MoreDistracted | @Distractedfilm https://vimeo.com/205950129 Our series of posts reflecting on Distracted continues...
Read MoreDistracted | @Distractedfilm Thanks to @SkotArmstrong for this Andy Warhol double bill...
Read MoreDistracted | @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...
Read MoreDistracted | @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...
Read MoreA 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,...
Read MoreDistracted | @Distractedfilm Giulietta Masina, Juliet Of The Spirits (Federico Fellini, 1965). Nominated by @SkotArmstrong. Peter Lorre in Mr Moto Takes A Vacation (Norman Foster, 1939). Thanks to @HansHerklots. Michel Piccoli. Here with Brigitte Bardot in Le Mepris (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963). Suggested by @Maxkir77. Sun Ra in Space Is The Place (John...
Read MoreDistracted | @Distractedfilm "In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things, but to give people the desire to see." - Agnes Varda. (Nominated by @RomantikKurbaa.) "Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of...
Read MoreThe next in our series of posts reflecting on the process of producing Distracted, focuses on the work of actor, John Giles. He plays Detective Mountjoy, a cop who needs to win a promotion otherwise his wife will leave him. After John's last shot on the film, I...
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