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Top 10 Donkeys-In-Cinema

Follow @Distractedfilm Apologies for the delay in posting this list, but I have been deep in pre-production for Distracted. I am delighted, however, that good progress has been made, and we will move into production at the end of the month. Anyway, as usual, in no particular...

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Top 10 Glasses-Of-Water-In-Cinema

Follow @Distractedfilm In no particular order. Airplane! (Jim Abrahams & David Zucker, 1980) Nominated by @liznorton88. Seconds (John Frankenheimer, 1960) Suggested by @barker11818. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini, 1963) @JHPCine suggested this one. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1979) Thanks to @SimonDale1965. Down Terrace (Ben Wheatley, 2009) Nominated by @chrdgriebe. North By Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959) Thanks to...

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Top 10 Timepieces In Cinema

Follow @DistractedFilm Timepieces in cinema, like offices, are prisons. Mental prisons rather than physical, the mental prison as a deadline. They bind and squeeze the protagonist's soul. They are reminders of his mortality, and they are a source of tension against which filmmakers measure the character's...

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