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....
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...
Read MoreFollow @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...
Read MoreFollow @DistractedFilm Back, by popular demand, it's People-On-The-Phone-In-Cinema Part II. The original 10 can be found here. Jeanne Moreau in Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud (Louis Malle, 1958) Nominated by @AshesOfTheSoul and @maisrienisboss. Cary Grant and Rosalin Russell in His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940) Suggested by @aalanester. Stephen Lack in Scanners (David...
Read MoreFollow @DistractedFilm Once again we had a tremendous response to this list, and the narrowing-down-to-ten process was tricky to say the least. I try to mix it up; including titles from different eras and different aesthetics. If you want to see the complete list of titles...
Read MoreFollow @JamesDevereaux Watching Woody Allen's latest feature, Cafe Society, I was struck by it's energy and precision, by the strength of it's ideas, by the truth of it's observations (which proves Allen still wonders at the world), but most of all, I was struck by the...
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