Actors-At-Windows | Top 10 Film List
Distracted | @Distractedfilm [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="533"] Jean Gabin and Michèle Morgan. Marcel Carné's Port of Shadows [1939]. "...
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Distracted | @Distractedfilm [gallery type="square" ids="175665010,175665011,175665012"] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Stanley Holloway and Alec Guinness in The Lavender Hill Mob [Charles Crichton, 1951]. Nominated by the great @MrIvanJohnson.[/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500"] The magnificent Cary Grant. Thanks @RomanPBone1 for the recommendation.[/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="901"] Sophia Loren. Thanks to...
Read MoreChampagne Cinema | Top 10 Film List
Distracted | @Distractedfilm [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1200"] Brigitte Bardot in La Femme Et Le Pantin [Julien Duvivier, 1959]. Thank-you @RachelVDZ.[/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="618"] Gary Merrill, Bette Davis, Celeste Holn, Hugh Marlowe in All About Eve [Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950]. And thanks to @_Art_Love_Life_ for this one.[/caption] [caption...
Read MoreReal And Imaginary Circumstances – Kim Novak In Vertigo | The Great Acting Blog
Subscribe | @GreatActingBlog [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="563"] ”Please see who I am. Please fall in love with me, not a fantasy.” - Kim Novak[/caption] Like all great art, a hidden truth is revealed when the real and the imaginary combine, and the viewer experiences the clatter of...
Read MoreKino Kimono / Top 10 Film List
Distracted | @Distractedfilm [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="1212"] Marlon Brando, Miiko Taka and Miyoshi Umeki. Sayonara [Joshua Logan, 1957]. Nominated by @GloriaBB2.[/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="674"] Toshirô Mifune. Publicity for Shogun (1980).[/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] Kichiemon Nakamura and Kiwako Taichi in Kuroneko [Kaneto Shindô, 1968]. Thanks @12pt9.[/caption] [caption id=""...
Read MoreBe Extraordinary And Accept Adversity | The Great Acting Blog
Subscribe | @GreatActingBlog "But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated." - Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man And The Sea It seems my last post, Be Comfortable Not Knowing, about anticipating adversity, has received some pushback for somehow offering...
Read More4K La Dolce Vita at The BFI
https://www.instagram.com/p/B68vlVHhDZs/?igshid=ye8myars5it9 The 4K restoration of La Dolce Vita at NFT 1 at the BFI. Anita Ekberg & the film were impossibly beautiful. And you got some feeling of what is was like to be a cinema-goer in 1960. I found myself wanting to enter into the film and...
Read MoreBe Comfortable Not Knowing | The Great Acting Blog
"It is not a sign of ignorance not to know the answers. But there is great merit in facing the questions" - David Mamet, True and False Much of our lives as artists is not within our control. Often, we must wait for our imagination to...
Read MoreFilms I Watched On MUBI In 2019 And Gave 5 Stars To
@Distractedfilm My annual ode to the cinema I love is here. The list is far longer than in previous years, mainly because MUBI offered retrospectives from the likes of Wim Wenders and Hong Sang Soo. Anyway, I hope you find the list provocative and, perhaps, you'll be...
Read MoreThe Top 10 Spotted Cravats
Distracted | @Distractedfilm [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="540"] Jean-Paul Belmondo. Alain Resnais' Stavisky. Thanks to @mskathleenquinn.[/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="564"] Marlene Dietrich. Studio portrait, 1932.[/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="799"] Terry-Thomas in Too Many Crooks [Mario Zampi, 1959]. Nominated by @Dean_Frey.[/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="639"] Roddy McDowall in Evil Under The...
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