https://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...
Read More@Distractedfilm My annual ode to the cinema I love is here. The list is far longer than in previous years, mainly because MUBI offered retrospectives from the likes of Wim Wenders and Hong Sang Soo. Anyway, I hope you find the list provocative and, perhaps, you'll be...
Read MoreDistracted | @Distractedfilm [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="540"] Jean-Paul Belmondo. Alain Resnais' Stavisky. Thanks to @mskathleenquinn.[/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="564"] Marlene Dietrich. Studio portrait, 1932.[/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="799"] Terry-Thomas in Too Many Crooks [Mario Zampi, 1959]. Nominated by @Dean_Frey.[/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="639"] Roddy McDowall in Evil Under The...
Read More Hal Hartley has been a great inspiration to me for many, many years. He is a true cinema artist, and, I believe, one of the most important contemporary American filmmakers. It gave me enormous pleasure then, to become a backer of his latest feature film, Where...
Read MoreDistracted | @Distractedfilm [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Louise Brooks & Gustav Diessl in Pandora’s Box [GW Pabst, 1929]. Thanks @ForeverLouiseB1.[/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Scarface [Howard Hawks, 1932]. Nominated by @filmkuratorium.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_175664775" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Mickey's Christmas Carol [Burney Mattinson, 1983].[/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="1265"] Bela Lugosi in The...
Read MoreDistracted | @Distractedfilm [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="837"] Marlene Dietrich in Josef Von Sternberg's [1930]. Nominated by @MsKathleenQuinn.[/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="753"] Marlon Brando, The Godfather [Francis Ford Coppola, 1972]. @Bakerdave76,[/caption] [caption id="attachment_175664704" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Bill Murray in Lost In Translation [Sofia Coppola, 2003].[/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1000"] Alain Delon...
Read MoreDistracted | @Distractedfilm [caption id="attachment_175664604" align="aligncenter" width="564"] Laurel And Hardy in Blotto [James Parrott, 1930]...
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