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Iconic Bandages | Top 10 Film List

15.05.2016 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 0 Comments

With titles suggested by Distracted friends, our latest high class list is here, Iconic Bandages. Notable omissions this time include The Skin I Live In and Ash Wednesday. Bandages in cinema it seems, signify some change to the individual's identity. They are mysterious: the viewer wants...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Career That Almost Never Was”

09.05.2016 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

[caption id="attachment_175660147" align="aligncenter" width="612"] Cybill Shepherd & Peter Bogdanovich on the set of The Last Picture Show.[/caption] By casting her in his 1971 masterpiece, The Last Picture Show, director Peter Bogdanovich opened up a 40 year career for Cybill Shepherd, a career which has included playing...

Drifting Clouds Cinema: ‘The Eyes Of TAXI DRIVER’

04.05.2016 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 16 Comments

https://vimeo.com/165183411 'Celebrating one of cinema's most unique anti-heroes on TAXI DRIVER's 40th anniversary year. A video essay by Jacob T. Swinney. More at fandom.com/keyframe' ...

Is This The Nose That Launched A Thousand Ships? – Top 10 Cinema Noses

25.04.2016 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 0 Comments

Once again, I turned to Twitter friends to create a film list. As always, the final selection is entirely subjective, and I hope you will forgive me for excluding some notable titles, such as Raging Bull, Pinocchio and Apocalypse Now. The list is in no particular...

The Animals At Achtung Berlin

02.04.2016 , Uncategorized , 0 Comments

https://vimeo.com/160063982 The Animals, directed by Mario Mentrup and Kerstin Cmelka, will play as part of Achtung Berlin, on the 17th and 20th April. More info here. ...

The Top 10 Bearded Performances

29.03.2016 , Distracted, Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog, The Great Acting Blog , 38 Comments

Once again I turned to friends on Twitter to create a film list. There was a wonderful response, and many notable performances didn't make it onto the list, including; Rex Harrison in The Ghost And Mrs Muir, Robert De Niro in The Deer Hunter and...

Drifting Clouds Cinema: “Visconti: Art And Ambiguity”

19.03.2016 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 0 Comments

https://vimeo.com/159368968 "An audiovisual essay for Fandor exploring the idea of ambiguity in the films of Luchino Visconti. The accompanying notes can be found here." By Pasquale Iannone....

Drifting Clouds Cinema: “Claude Chabrol, Jean-Pierre Melville & Jean-Luc Godard”

01.03.2016 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 0 Comments

Paris, 1962....

The Actor As Spiritual Warrior – Lee Marvin | The Great Acting Blog

22.02.2016 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

"Lee Marvin - A Personal Portrait" is a documentary by director John Boorman, Marvin's friend and collaborator. It is about 40 minutes long and completely fascinating. If you haven't got time to watch it, I've made some notes below. It could be said that the...

Drifting Clouds Cinema: “Films Where The Director Played The Lead Character”

16.02.2016 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 0 Comments

Once again, I reached out to the Distracted community to make a new list. Once again, the suggestions were many, varied and often surprising (Depardieu as director?). I’ve tried to limit it to one film per filmmaker, except in those cases where demand has proved irresistable. The...

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