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Top 10 Actors-On-Trains-In-Cinema

10.04.2017 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 28 Comments

Follow @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...

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Distracted – March Production Update!

29.03.2017 , Distracted , 5 Comments

Follow @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...

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The Top 10 Cinema Luggage

20.03.2017 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 34 Comments

Follow @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....

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Films-Set-In-Paris-During-The-1970s | Top 10 List

11.03.2017 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 35 Comments

Follow @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....

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Distracted Feature Film – Work Update

04.03.2017 , Distracted , 0 Comments

Follow @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...

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Top 10 Cinema Cigars

28.02.2017 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 0 Comments

Follow @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...

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Top 10 Fictional Technology

04.02.2017 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 0 Comments

Follow @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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Distracted: Production Update!

30.01.2017 , Distracted , 4 Comments

Follow @Distractedfilm An intense, humbling and transformative shoot takes the production to around 50% completed. Intense because you fight to meet the demands the film makes upon you, humbling because you realise how much you don't know, and transformative because you pass through the challenge and emerge...

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