Follow @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,...
Read MoreFollow @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...
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