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Top 10 Cinema Ice-Creams & Lollipops

02.04.2017 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 38 Comments

Follow @DistractedFilm Many thanks to all who took the time to suggest titles. Notable exclusions included The Wizard of Oz, French Connection II, It's A Wonderful Life and Baby Doll. In no particular order then...

The Top 10 Cinema Luggage

20.03.2017 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 22 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....

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

11.03.2017 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 21 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....

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...

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...

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

07.01.2017 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 12 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...

Top 10 Actors-In-Cinema-Reading-Books

30.12.2016 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 16 Comments

Follow @DistractedFilm Once again we had a tremendous response to this list, and the narrowing-down-to-ten process was tricky to say the least. I try to mix it up; including titles from different eras and different aesthetics. If you want to see the complete list of titles...

Top 10 Actors-In-Cinemas-In-Cinema

23.12.2016 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 7 Comments

Follow @DistractedFilm This list was inspired by Jim Jarmusch's Paterson. It's a film which offers a precise, personal vision of life, and of cinema itself. It's also a film grounded in personal truth, personified by Adam Driver's extraordinary central performance. His work seems to chime so...

Top 10 Criminal Cinema Couples

14.12.2016 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 6 Comments

Follow @DistractedFilm One of the main joys of creating these lists is discovering new titles, and that has certainly been true this time, and especially true of The Honeymoon Killers - a film whose irony is so brutal it's actually quite beautiful. Criminal Cinema Couples naturally alludes...

Top 10 Cinema Bicycles

28.11.2016 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 24 Comments

Follow @DistractedFilm Thanks again to all who took the time to suggest titles. Notable exclusions included Un Chien Andalou, Band Of Outsiders & Mon Oncle. Bicycles in cinema, it would seem, are joyous. They represent freedom and innocence, something good. Their destruction is something to be feared. In...

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