Distracted | @Distractedfilm Thanks again to everyone who took the time to suggest titles. Notable exclusions this time included; Visconti's Death In Venice, Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin and Richard Harris in Mutiny On The Bounty. Anyway, as always, in no particular order. Jean Seberg in Jean-Luc Godard's A bout...
Read MoreTimothy Spall in Secrets And Lies (Mike Leigh, 1996). Suggested by @PaulVonMitchell. Eiji Okada in Woman In The Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964). Thanks to @DancerOnFilm. Katharine Ross in The Stepford Wives (Bryan Forbes, 1975). Nominated by @XanaduFitness. Eddie Constantine in Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965). Nominated by @Romantikurbaa. Paparazzi in...
Read MoreFollow @distractedfilm Cary Grant in The Talk Of The Town (George Stevens, 1942). Suggested by @JHPCine. Henryk Baranowski & Wojciech Klata in Dekalog: 1 (Krzysytof Kieslowski, 1988). Thanks to @KafkaBoots. Alec Guinness in Carol Reed's Our Man In Havana (1959). Nominated by @GloriaBB2. Juliet Berto & Jacques Donoil-Valcroze in...
Read MoreFollow @distractedfilm Whacky laboratories are a celebration not only of cinema itself, but also of the wonderful madness of creativity, a celebration expressed visually in an assortment of gadgets, potions and inventions. Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart, 1971). Nominated by @baznut. Jerry Lewis and Stella Stevens...
Read MoreFollow @distractedfilm Alain Delon in Le Cercle Rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1970). Suggested by @dean_frey. Buster Keaton in his own Sherlock Jr (1924) Anna Karina in Vivre Sa Vie (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962). Nominated by @AshesOfTheSoul. Alun Armstrong in Billy The Kid And The Green Baize Vampire (Alan Clarke, 1987). And @PaulvonMitchell nominated this...
Read Morehttps://vimeo.com/206614332 Video by Philip Brubaker Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samourai turns 50....
Read MoreFollow @distractedfilm Catherine Deneuve with David Bowie in The Hunger (Tony Scott, 1983). Marcello Mastroianni with Jean-Louis Trintignant in The Sunday Woman (Luigi Comencini, 1975). Nominated by @RomantikKurbaa. Greta Garbo in Queen Christina (Rouben Mamoulian, 1933). Many thanks @believebird. Dirk Bogarde in Providence (Alain Resnais, 1977). Suggested by mskathleenquinn. Jean Gabin with Lino...
Read MoreBetween 2011 and 2014, I had the good fortune to work with celebrated, Dublin filmmaker, Rouzbeh Rashidi, on six extraordinary feature films. Nicola Gocic has written an insightful analysis of the films, serving as an excellent overview. Check it out here: The films themselves are readily available...
Read MoreFollow @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,...
Read MoreFollow @DistractedFilm There was a minor dispute about whether or not the table tennis bat was infact a racquet, and a polite enquiry about including a television show, but, apart from that, this list was compiled in an orderly fashion. Thank-you as always to all those...
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