Despite our good intentions, despite our best endevours, despite our best laid plans, sometimes our attempts to achieve our most important goals become so convoluted, so mangled by the stresses and strains of day-to-day living, that we lose sight of the vision that inspired us...
Read MoreFollow @distractedfilm Whacky laboratories are a celebration not only of cinema itself, but also of the wonderful madness of creativity, a celebration expressed visually in an assortment of gadgets, potions and inventions. Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart, 1971). Nominated by @baznut. Jerry Lewis and Stella Stevens...
Read MoreFollow @distractedfilm Alain Delon in Le Cercle Rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1970). Suggested by @dean_frey. Buster Keaton in his own Sherlock Jr (1924) Anna Karina in Vivre Sa Vie (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962). Nominated by @AshesOfTheSoul. Alun Armstrong in Billy The Kid And The Green Baize Vampire (Alan Clarke, 1987). And @PaulvonMitchell nominated this...
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Read Morehttps://vimeo.com/206614332 Video by Philip Brubaker Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samourai turns 50....
Read MoreFollow @distractedfilm Catherine Deneuve with David Bowie in The Hunger (Tony Scott, 1983). Marcello Mastroianni with Jean-Louis Trintignant in The Sunday Woman (Luigi Comencini, 1975). Nominated by @RomantikKurbaa. Greta Garbo in Queen Christina (Rouben Mamoulian, 1933). Many thanks @believebird. Dirk Bogarde in Providence (Alain Resnais, 1977). Suggested by mskathleenquinn. Jean Gabin with Lino...
Read MoreBetween 2011 and 2014, I had the good fortune to work with celebrated, Dublin filmmaker, Rouzbeh Rashidi, on six extraordinary feature films. Nicola Gocic has written an insightful analysis of the films, serving as an excellent overview. Check it out here: The films themselves are readily available...
Read MoreFollow @Distractedfilm For our latest work on Distracted, production de-camped to Oxfordshire, here's John Giles as Detective Mountjoy. We have only a few more scenes to shoot before we complete what has been a substantial and complex project. Thoughts turn now to what happens after production is completed -...
Read MoreFollow @distractedfilm My admiration for the history of British cinema only grows, discovering beautiful new titles during the making of this list. Thank-you, as always, to all contributors. Notable exclusions this time included; Preminger's Bunny Lake Is Missing and Victim with Dirk Bogarde. Some others fell foul of the duplication rule,...
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