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The Top 10 Spotted Cravats

28.12.2019 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 33 Comments

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...

Hal Hartley Kickstarts Where To Land

26.12.2019 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 38 Comments

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...

Top 10 Shadowy Cinema

30.11.2019 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 33 Comments

Distracted | @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...

How To Be An Optimist – A Review Of Seligman’s Learned Optimism

11.11.2019 , The Great Acting Blog , 35 Comments

I 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...

Top 10 Bravura Bow-Ties

02.11.2019 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 39 Comments

Distracted | @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...

The Paradox Of Creative Work | The Great Acting Blog

29.10.2019 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

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...

Cinema Ha Ha Ha!

05.10.2019 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 32 Comments

Distracted | @Distractedfilm [caption id="attachment_175664604" align="aligncenter" width="564"] Laurel And Hardy in Blotto [James Parrott, 1930]...

Acting Intentions – Gyöngyvér Vigh In Adoption | The Great Acting Blog

30.09.2019 , The Great Acting Blog , 31 Comments

Gyöngyvér 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...

A Lesson From John Malkovich In Bitter Wheat | The Great Acting Blog

01.09.2019 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

[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...

Top 10 Hands-In-Cinema

24.08.2019 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 39 Comments

Distracted | @Distractedfilm [gallery type="square" ids="175664505,175664502,175664503,175664504,175664506,175664507,175664508,175664510,175664509,175664511"] LATEST LISTS Shady Filmmakers Cinema Scooters Frames-Within-Frames Snowy Cinema Cinema Balloons MOST POPULAR TOP 10s Iconic Bandages Pipe-Smoking Filmmakers...

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