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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...
Between 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...
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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 -...
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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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There was a minor dispute about whether or not the table tennis bat was infact a racquet, and a polite enquiry about including a television show, but, apart from that, this list was compiled in an orderly fashion. Thank-you as always to all those...
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We had an extraordinary response to this list, with all sorts of titles having to be excluded from the final 10. These included; Bunuel's That Obscure Object Of Desire, Powell And Pressburger's A Canterbury Tale and Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein.
Alain Delon in Mr Klein...
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Many thanks to all who took the time to suggest titles.
Notable exclusions included The Wizard of Oz, French Connection II, It's A Wonderful Life and Baby Doll.
In no particular order then...
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Another intense shoot saw the great Nadine Hanwell join the cast as 'Mrs Hopkins', and our detectives mull over evidence via a beautiful, old, Fidelity reel-to-reel recorder in their attempts to find the murderer. Distracted's paradoxical, strange and familiar atmosphere takes shape.
We're into the...