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Top 10 Timepieces In Cinema

22.08.2016 , Uncategorized , 39 Comments

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...

Top 10 Offices-In-Cinema

14.08.2016 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 17 Comments

Follow @Distractedfilm Offices. In cinema they tend to be private places where power is exercised on the unfortunate. Or, they're grim, formal prisons where the schmuck, the schnook, the schmo, is locked in spiritual chains, his individuality sublimated by the will of the mighty employer. In...

Top 10 Cinema Staircases

07.08.2016 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 35 Comments

Follow @distractedfilm Staircases. They're sort of netherworlds, transient spaces we move through in order to get from one world to another, connecting those worlds. They're spooky. People fall down them. People get thrown down them. They creak. Hitchcock loved them. Thanks again to everyone who made suggestions....

Top 10 Pipe-Smoking Filmmakers | Film List

31.07.2016 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 38 Comments

Follow @Distractedfilm Pipes. They imply erudition, contemplation, concentration and quiet authority. They are a touch eccentric. It's no surprise then, that many of cinema's greatest filmmakers smoked them. The list is in no particular order, and thanks to everyone who made suggestions. [caption id="attachment_175660524" align="aligncenter" width="583"] Robert Bresson....

The Great Acting Blog: “A Principled Actor”

26.07.2016 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Peter Sellers' performance in Hal Ashby's 1979 film, Being There, is quite brilliant. It's one of eye-watering precision and discipline, and, like all great performances, it feels inevitable; the role could not be played any other way nor by any other actor. It came as...

Drifting Clouds Cinema: ‘Top 10 Peculiar Pairings’

19.07.2016 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 38 Comments

Follow @distractedfilm This list came about because I was piqued by the pairing of Ingrid Thulin and Robert Mitchum in Sheldon Reynolds' Foreign Intrigue. We associate them with different cinematic cultures - Thulin with European arthouse, Mitchum with classical Hollywood. This differential creates a gap in...

Noirish Project – Humble And Innocent Cinema

03.07.2016 , Noirish Project , 0 Comments

https://vimeo.com/74585515 I want the audience to have a peaceful, poetic experience when watching Noirish Project. The film rejects the bombast of so much contemporary cinema, the bombast of content and style, the bombast that seeks to control what we think. I don't want the film to...

Movie Monocles | Top 10 List

03.07.2016 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 29 Comments

Monocles. They are other-worldly, eccentric, subversive. They imply a certain erudition as well as add mystery - people who wear monocles seem to know something we don't. Anyway, thanks again to everyone who made suggestions. [caption id="attachment_175660365" align="aligncenter" width="1278"] Fritz Lang. Nominated by @eliza2854, @Mara1937 and @lintlvieno.[/caption] [caption...

FILM LISTS: “10 Cafes-In-Cinema”

12.06.2016 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 31 Comments

The number of responses for this one was overwhelming, and I found it almost impossible to narrow it down to ten titles, and actually impossible to select only one image for each. Further, filmmakers like Jean-Luc Godard and Jim Jarmusch merit a list of their...

Noirish Project To Be Screened In Helsinki

08.06.2016 , Noirish Project , 0 Comments

[caption id="attachment_175660307" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] WHS Teatarri Union, Helsinki.[/caption] Delighted to announce details of our Helsinki screening. We will be working in collaboration with Helsinki based film collective, Euphoria Borealis. Noirish Project will provide the opening for their International Kino Kabaret. “International Kino Kabaret 2016 Presents: Noirish Project” – WHS...

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