Subscribe | @Distractedfilm [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="540"] Pasolini. At home in Rome in 1971. Thanks @sergioandreola.[/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="680"] Chantal Akerman. Je, Tu, Il, Elle [1975]. Thank-you @lunarscp. Related; Dreamer In A Dream - Delphine Seyrig In Jeanne Dielman.[/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="536"] Alfred Hitchcock with Alma....
Read More“there is nothing so interesting on stage as a man trying to get a knot out of his shoelaces.” - Bertolt Brecht Chantal Akerman's “Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles” is a three and a half hour masterpiece about the meticulous dom...
Read MoreSubscribe | @Distractedfilm [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="540"] Jeanne Moreau and Jean Gabin. On Gas-Oil [Gilles Grangier, 1955].[/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="660"] Jacques Tati's Mon Oncle [1958]. And thanks to @Fatimahwithh for this.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_175665050" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Jitka Cerhová and Ivana Karbanová in Daisies [Věra Chytilová, 1966]. Thank-you @joojosxoxo.[/caption] [caption...
Read MoreDistracted | @Distractedfilm [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="533"] Jean Gabin and Michèle Morgan. Marcel Carné's Port of Shadows [1939]. "...
Read MoreDistracted | @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 MoreDistracted | @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 MoreSubscribe | @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 MoreDistracted | @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 MoreSubscribe | @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 Morehttps://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...
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