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...
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...
Read MoreFollow @DistractedFilm This list was inspired by Jim Jarmusch's Paterson. It's a film which offers a precise, personal vision of life, and of cinema itself. It's also a film grounded in personal truth, personified by Adam Driver's extraordinary central performance. His work seems to chime so...
Read MoreFollow @DistractedFilm One of the main joys of creating these lists is discovering new titles, and that has certainly been true this time, and especially true of The Honeymoon Killers - a film whose irony is so brutal it's actually quite beautiful. Criminal Cinema Couples naturally alludes...
Read MoreWe Are Now A Third Of The Way Through Production Ideas which had formerly existed only in your mind's eye are electrified when they come into contact with the reality of production, and transformed into something true, something resonant, and something beautiful. Another exhilarating shoot for Distracted...
Read MoreFollow @DistractedFilm Thanks again to all who took the time to suggest titles. Notable exclusions included Un Chien Andalou, Band Of Outsiders & Mon Oncle. Bicycles in cinema, it would seem, are joyous. They represent freedom and innocence, something good. Their destruction is something to be feared. In...
Read MoreFollow @DistractedFilm Baldness signifies a character eviscerated, or one who has given over to a spartan existance. It can be the mark of experience, and it can be the mark, of course, of evil. In no particular order. The Virgin Queen (Henry Koster, 1955) Suggested by @jhpcine Bravura from Bette...
Read MoreCinema bubblegum has probably our toughest list so far, and it's certainly lead to our most peculiar combination of films. One thing is sure though, bubblegum, in cinema, symbolises care-free youth, and rebelliousness. In no particular order Grease (Randal Kleiser, 1978) Nominated by @rnfrw, @thrillmurray_ @MrSnowgarden and @Movienut14. Olivia...
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