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,...
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...
Read MoreDistracted | @Distractedfilm The top 10 swag, the top 10 cash, the top 10 green, the top 10 moolah, the moolah, the moosh, the moo moo, the spondooli, the readies, the notes, the top 10 filthy lucre. Here they are. And in no particular order. Danger: Diabolik (Mario Bava,...
Read MorePost-production continues on Distracted - sound design and refining the visual aesthetic. It's a big job and we are progressing nicely with it. As we head toward completion, I begin to reflect on the past year, producing Distracted, and have decided to formulate my thoughts...
Read MoreDistracted | @Distractedfilm Thanks again to everyone who took the time to suggest titles. Notable exclusions this time included; Visconti's Death In Venice, Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin and Richard Harris in Mutiny On The Bounty. Anyway, as always, in no particular order. Jean Seberg in Jean-Luc Godard's A bout...
Read MoreDistracted | @DistractedFilm I am delighted to inform you we are very close now to a rough cut of the film. The next phase will be to refine the aesthetic and work on the sound design; adding effects plus we have some ADR to do too. The...
Read MoreTimothy Spall in Secrets And Lies (Mike Leigh, 1996). Suggested by @PaulVonMitchell. Eiji Okada in Woman In The Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964). Thanks to @DancerOnFilm. Katharine Ross in The Stepford Wives (Bryan Forbes, 1975). Nominated by @XanaduFitness. Eddie Constantine in Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965). Nominated by @Romantikurbaa. Paparazzi in...
Read MoreFollow @distractedfilm Cary Grant in The Talk Of The Town (George Stevens, 1942). Suggested by @JHPCine. Henryk Baranowski & Wojciech Klata in Dekalog: 1 (Krzysytof Kieslowski, 1988). Thanks to @KafkaBoots. Alec Guinness in Carol Reed's Our Man In Havana (1959). Nominated by @GloriaBB2. Juliet Berto & Jacques Donoil-Valcroze in...
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