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Top 10 Curious-Cinematic-Debuts

25.07.2018 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 0 Comments

Distracted | @Distractedfilm "Robert De Niro’s film debut was as an extra in Three Rooms in Manhattan (1965)". - @SkotArmstrong De Niro debuts with Marcel Carné. Who’d have thought that. Steve McQueen in The Blob. Apparently he hated the film and hoped it would never be released. Shame...

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Top 10 Strange-Cinematic-Siblings

01.07.2018 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 26 Comments

Distracted | @Distractedfilm Nicole Stephane and Edouard Dermithe in Les Enfants Terribles (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1950). Jean Cocteau and Jean-Pierre Melville joined forces for this adaptation of Cocteau’s wicked novel about the wholly unholy relationship between a brother and sister, Elisabeth and Paul, who close themselves off from...

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Magnified Cinema | Top 10 Film List

20.05.2018 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 29 Comments

Distracted | @Distractedfilm Alfred Hitchcock Presents "Decoy" (1959, directed by Arnold Levan). Nominated by @Bakerdave76, @lintlevieno and @12pt9. Chungking Express (Kar-Wai Wong, 1994). Thanks to @12pt9. The Defector (Raoul Levy, 1966). And thanks @SkotArmstrong. Mr Arkadin (Orson Welles, 1955). And thanks to @AllanHolloway for this. Charulata (Satyajit Ray, 1964). Thanks @Chandanrawal316. "Why do you say jump?" "Because...

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Top 10 Cinema Simians

07.05.2018 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 0 Comments

Distracted | @Distractedfilm Laurel and Hardy with Ethel in The Chimp (James Parrott, 1932). @StefP nominated this one. Morgan: A Suitable Case For Treatment (Karel Reisz, 1966). Thanks to @KafkaBoots for this. Max Mon Amour (Nagisa Oshima, 1986). @Kafkaboots nominated this one too, as did @PaulvonMitchell. Marlene Dietrich, Blonde Venus (Josef Von...

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Top 10 Cinema Pyjamas

15.04.2018 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 36 Comments

Distracted | @Distractedfilm Brigitte Bardot with Marcello Mastroianni in A Very Private Affair (Louis Malle, 1962). Thanks to @HansHerklots for this. James Cagney and Mae Clarke in Public Enemy (William A. Wellman, 1931). Suggested by @MissVanos13. Sophia Loren in A Countess From Hong Kong (Charles Chaplin, 1967). Bourvil and Louis De...

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Top 10 Old Technology

01.04.2018 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 5 Comments

Distracted | @Distractedfilm Investigation Of A Citizen Above Suspicion (Elio Petri, 1970). His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940). Thank-you @GloriaBB2. [caption id="attachment_175662469" align="aligncenter" width="2000"] The Soft Skin (Francois Truffaut, 1964). Thanks to @MrIvanJohnson for sending this. Billion Dollar Brain (Ken Russell, 1967). Suggested by @norwest. Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1970). Thanks to @SimoneNomegia. The Big Heat...

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Top 10 Theatre-In-Cinema

11.02.2018 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 35 Comments

Distracted | @Distractedfilm Children Of Paradise (Marcel Carne, 1945). Nominated by @AlexaCitron, @Heero99, @RosemaryGolding and @VIFFSTER. The Dresser (Peter Yates, 1983). This was suggested by @egorm. Opening Night (John Cassavetes, 1977) And @ThoCl suggested this. The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie (Luis Bunuel, 1972). Thanks to @sondosmusa. The Last Metro (Francois Truffaut, 1980). @JHPCine nominated...

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Top 10 Cinema Reflections

15.01.2018 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 1 Comment

Distracted | @Distractedfilm Jean Marais in Jean Cocteau's Orpheus (1950). Nominated by @RosieLGolding and @PaulVonMitchell Dirk Bogarde and James Fox in The Servant (Joseph Losey, 1963). Thanks to @universderien. Giorgio Albertazzi and Delphine Seyrig in Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961). And thanks to @heeo99 for this. Orson Welles and Rita...

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Top 10 People-In-Cinema-Wearing-Hats

26.12.2017 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 0 Comments

Distracted | @Distractedfilm Giulietta Masina, Juliet Of The Spirits (Federico Fellini, 1965). Nominated by @SkotArmstrong. Peter Lorre in Mr Moto Takes A Vacation (Norman Foster, 1939). Thanks to @HansHerklots. Michel Piccoli. Here with Brigitte Bardot in Le Mepris (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963). Suggested by @Maxkir77. Sun Ra in Space Is The Place (John...

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