Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog: “Trailer For Godard, Phrases”
https://vimeo.com/140556093 The trailer for the Indiegogo campaign to raise funds for a series of Jean-Luc Godard books to be translated by Stuart Kendall. Full info here...
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Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog: “John Cassavetes: Spaces of Seduction”
https://vimeo.com/139866140 "John Cassavetes is considered the father of American independent cinema for his self-funded productions and fresh, improvisational approach to storytelling and acting. But he doesn't get enough credit for his mastery of cinematic craft. This video essay shows his command of camerawork, lighting and editing...
Read MoreNoirish Project: Berlin Screening Details
Full details of Noirish Project's Berlin screening are now up on the Ausland website here. Brief details, plus an outline & a statement here: As always, if you’re unable to attend any of the screenings, Noirish Project can now be viewed online, here. https://vimeo.com/74585515 Noirish Project (73 mins,...
Read MoreMutual Admiration Society – Berlin Screening
Mutual Admiration Society, the minimalist hitman feature film I co-created with Rouzbeh Rashidi last year, will make it's German debut this month, with a screening at Lichtblick Kino in Berlin - I will be attending. “Surreal and mysterious, in equal parts absurd and intense, Mutual Admiration...
Read More“HE” Screening At Scalarama 2015
[caption id="attachment_175659588" align="aligncenter" width="800"] HE (feature film, 2012).[/caption] HE will screen at Cafe Kino in Bristol, as part of Scalarama 2015. Full details can be found here "He (2012) is an Irish Experimental film directed by Rouzbeh Rashidi, starring James Devereaux as the main character. The film...
Read MoreA Lesson From Catherine Deneuve In Belle De Jour – Accentuate Your Individuality
Subscribe | @GreatActingBlog [caption id="attachment_175659579" align="aligncenter" width="504"] Catherine Deneuve in Luis Bunuel's Belle De Jour.[/caption] All art is truth. Something cannot be art if it doesn't ring with truth. And the truth is usually provocative, usually uncomfortable - that's why we rarely like facing up to it. The...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “Pressures And Distractions?”
[caption id="attachment_175659470" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] On the set of Marcel Carne's Les Enfants De Paradis, 1945.[/caption] Marcel Carne's 1945 film, Les Enfants Du Paradis, is set in the Parisien theatre of the 1840s, a world teeming with "hucksters and aristocrats, thieves and courtesans, pimps and seers". It's an...
Read MoreNoirish Project – Berlin Screening Details ….
DELIGHTED full details of Noirish Project’s Berlin screening are now up on the Ausland website here. Brief details, plus an outline & a statement here: As always, if you’re unable to attend any of the screenings, Noirish Project can now be viewed online, here. https://vimeo.com/74585515 Noirish Project (73 mins, UK, James...
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Creating Cinema Culture – A Context For My Films
I wrote this piece in 2015, to explain the culture I wanted to create around my then upcoming feature film, Distracted. However, it's now 2021, as I put together my next production, Composure, the same cinema culture holds true. This idea of 'creating cinema culture'...
Read MoreDrifting Clouds Cinema Blog: “The Definition of ‘British Cinema’?”
Michael Powell in a bowler hat. RELATED Top 10 Films-Set-In-London-During-The-1960s...
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