Follow @DistractedFilm 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...
Read MoreFollow @DistractedFilm 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...
Read MoreFollow @DistractedFilm 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...
Read MoreFollow @Distractedfilm 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...
Read MoreFollow @DistractedFilm Many thanks, as always, to everyone who took the trouble to suggest titles. Notable exclusions included a volley of Hitchcock films, Elia Kazan's A Streetcar Named Desire and Visconti's Rocco And His Brothers. An actor carrying luggage within a frame possesses it's own visual poetry....
Read MoreFollow @DistractedFilm Out 1 - (Jacques Rivette, 1971) Nominated by me and seconded by @SkotArmstrong. Out 1 is one of the crowning achievements of Rivette’s remarkable career. Conceived as a television mini-series, this near-thirteen-hour monolith consists of eight feature-length episodes revolving around two theatre troupes, blackmail and conspiracy....
Read MoreFollow @DistractedFilm https://vimeo.com/205950129 As we move into the second half of production, I've put together a montage of scenes we've already worked on, which I hope will give you a feel for the film. We still have enough work to do, but I hope you like what we've...
Read MoreFollow @DistractedFilm Serge Reggiani and Michel Piccoli with Yves Montand and Gerard Depardieu in Claude Sautet's Vincent, Francois, Paul And The Others (1974). Nominated by @mariae_gloria Edward G. Robinson in Key Largo (John Huston, 1948). Thanks to @GloriaBB2 Jean-Luc Godard in his own Prenom Carmen (1983). Robert Mitchum in Cape Fear...
Read More[caption id="attachment_175661512" align="aligncenter" width="540"] John Hurt (1940 - 2017)[/caption] Tolstoy explained it to us when he said that a true work of art was the transmission of a feeling experienced by the artist. The viewer, in turn, receives the work, and so experiences the same feeling. John Hurt is...
Read MoreFollow @DistractedFilm Apologies for my dreadful slowness in posting this list, but the Distracted production has been somewhat dominating proceedings recently. Anyway, here it is. Each piece of technology has been selected for it's intrinsic absurdity, and that of the film in which it features. Thanks again...
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