@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 MoreDistracted | @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...
Read More Hal Hartley has been a great inspiration to me for many, many years. He is a true cinema artist, and, I believe, one of the most important contemporary American filmmakers. It gave me enormous pleasure then, to become a backer of his latest feature film, Where...
Read MoreDistracted | @Distractedfilm [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Louise Brooks & Gustav Diessl in Pandora’s Box [GW Pabst, 1929]. Thanks @ForeverLouiseB1.[/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Scarface [Howard Hawks, 1932]. Nominated by @filmkuratorium.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_175664775" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Mickey's Christmas Carol [Burney Mattinson, 1983].[/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="1265"] Bela Lugosi in The...
Read MoreI confess I've never paid much attention to 'optimism'. It always seemed nebulous and watery to me, like 'being positive' - vague notions which lead to dangerous self-delusion. I've always preferred cold, hard, evidence-based analyses, concrete action and giving myself over to that which I...
Read MoreDistracted | @Distractedfilm [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="837"] Marlene Dietrich in Josef Von Sternberg's [1930]. Nominated by @MsKathleenQuinn.[/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="753"] Marlon Brando, The Godfather [Francis Ford Coppola, 1972]. @Bakerdave76,[/caption] [caption id="attachment_175664704" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Bill Murray in Lost In Translation [Sofia Coppola, 2003].[/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1000"] Alain Delon...
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Your work gives you Confidence Strength Joy Self-respect. Your work is your talent, your unique gift. Doing your work means [slowly] becoming the person you always wanted to be. Your work makes you tick. It’s the one thing in your life you absolutely will not compromise on. But your work also frightens you. It...
Read MoreDistracted | @Distractedfilm [caption id="attachment_175664604" align="aligncenter" width="564"] Laurel And Hardy in Blotto [James Parrott, 1930]...
Read MoreGyöngyvér Vigh's performance in Adoption, is a powerful example of acting intentions; of having a good, clear, strong intention towards the other actor in the scene. Vigh knows precisely what she wants the other actor to do as a result of her actions. As we...
Read More[caption id="attachment_175664532" align="aligncenter" width="700"] David Mamet and John Malkovich in rehearsals for Bitter Wheat.[/caption] I stopped going to the theatre a few years back because so much of what I saw was dead. Theatres had become museums; places where we go to see re-creations of classic...
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