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Top 10 Films Set-In-London-During-The-1960s

10.05.2017 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 34 Comments

Follow @distractedfilm My admiration for the history of British cinema only grows, discovering beautiful new titles  during the making of this list. Thank-you, as always, to all contributors. Notable exclusions this time included; Preminger's Bunny Lake Is Missing and Victim with Dirk Bogarde. Some others fell foul of the duplication rule,...

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Top 10 Actors-On-Trains-In-Cinema

10.04.2017 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 29 Comments

Follow @DistractedFilm We had an extraordinary response to this list, with all sorts of titles having to be excluded from the final 10. These included;  Bunuel's That Obscure Object Of Desire, Powell And Pressburger's A Canterbury Tale and Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein. Alain Delon in Mr Klein...

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The Top 10 Cinema Luggage

20.03.2017 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 37 Comments

Follow @DistractedFilm Many thanks, as always, to everyone who took the trouble to suggest titles. Notable exclusions included a volley of Hitchcock films, Elia Kazan's A Streetcar Named Desire and Visconti's Rocco And His Brothers. An actor carrying luggage within a frame possesses it's own visual poetry....

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Films-Set-In-Paris-During-The-1970s | Top 10 List

11.03.2017 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 36 Comments

Follow @DistractedFilm Out 1 - (Jacques Rivette, 1971) Nominated by me and seconded by @SkotArmstrong. Out 1 is one of the crowning achievements of Rivette’s remarkable career. Conceived as a television mini-series, this near-thirteen-hour monolith consists of eight feature-length episodes revolving around two theatre troupes, blackmail and conspiracy....

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Top 10 Cinema Cigars

28.02.2017 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 0 Comments

Follow @DistractedFilm Serge Reggiani and Michel Piccoli with Yves Montand and Gerard Depardieu in Claude Sautet's Vincent, Francois, Paul And The Others (1974). Nominated by @mariae_gloria Edward G. Robinson in Key Largo (John Huston, 1948). Thanks to @GloriaBB2 Jean-Luc Godard in his own Prenom Carmen (1983). Robert Mitchum in Cape Fear...

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Top 10 Fictional Technology

04.02.2017 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 0 Comments

Follow @DistractedFilm Apologies for my dreadful slowness in posting this list, but the Distracted production has been somewhat dominating proceedings recently. Anyway, here it is. Each piece of technology has been selected for it's intrinsic absurdity, and that of the film in which it features. Thanks again...

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Top 10 People-On-The-Phone-In-Cinema Part II

07.01.2017 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 30 Comments

Follow @DistractedFilm Back, by popular demand, it's People-On-The-Phone-In-Cinema Part II. The original 10 can be found here. Jeanne Moreau in Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud (Louis Malle, 1958) Nominated by @AshesOfTheSoul and @maisrienisboss. Cary Grant and Rosalin Russell in His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940) Suggested by @aalanester. Stephen Lack in Scanners (David...

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