Distracted | @Distractedfilm Leningrad Cowboys Go America (Aki Kaurismaki, 1989). Thanks to @Doinel74. Slack Bay (Bruno Dumont, 2016). @filmad suggested this. El Topo (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1970). Nominated by @12pt9. Divorce Italian Style (Pietro Germi, 1963). Ice Cold In Alex (J Lee Thompson, 1958). And @realarsenalism nominated this one. Woman Of The Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964). Nominated...
Read MoreOnly Do That Which Inspires Commitment And Purpose In You Because this means we're doing what we really want to do, we're doing what's meaningful to us, and we feel strong. Alternatively, we function much less effectively when we undertake work that does not inspire us. Think...
Read MoreDistracted | @Distractedfilm https://vimeo.com/205950129 We are currently piecing together a screening series for Distracted. Our plan is to take the film to major European cities and present it with a live Q & A afterwards. We did this with our last film and it proved to be...
Read MoreDistracted | @Distractedfilm "Make visible what, without you, might never have been seen" - Robert Bresson. Thank-you @Hanna1960. "When humour can be made to alternate with humour, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful." -...
Read MoreSubscribe | @GreatActingBlog Hepburn plays Arianne Chavasse, the daughter of a private detective who specialises in creating dossiers on illicit affairs for cheated spouses. Hepburn takes an unnatural interest in her father's work, delving into his filing cabinet and hungrily reading up on his juiciest cases....
Read MoreDistracted | @Distractedfilm "Robert De Niro’s film debut was as an extra in Three Rooms in Manhattan (1965)". - @SkotArmstrong De Niro debuts with Marcel Carné. Who’d have thought that. Steve McQueen in The Blob. Apparently he hated the film and hoped it would never be released. Shame...
Read MoreWe don’t like showing we are in a weak position, we don’t like showing that we need something. We don’t like revealing a vulnerability - it’s degrading, it’s embarrassing, it may even be humiliating, and we leave ourselves wide open to being damaged. This is...
Read MoreDistracted | @Distractedfilm Nicole Stephane and Edouard Dermithe in Les Enfants Terribles (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1950). Jean Cocteau and Jean-Pierre Melville joined forces for this adaptation of Cocteau’s wicked novel about the wholly unholy relationship between a brother and sister, Elisabeth and Paul, who close themselves off from...
Read MoreDistracted | @Distractedfilm The Castro Theatre, San Francsco. The Orpheum Theatre, Downtown Los Angeles. Thanks to @SkotArmstrong for the next three. Touring Broadway's Last Great Movie Palace: the Los Angeles . In a town with some of the most beautiful movie palaces, the most popular venue in Hollywood is a...
Read MoreDistracted | @Distractedfilm preparing on set Dear friends, I am delighted to inform you that Distracted is now complete. Distracted has been more complex than any other project we’ve undertaken. As such, it’s been a long and winding road, with wrong turns, dead ends and harsh lessons, but also...
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