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Top 10 Cinema Chess

23.07.2017 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 20 Comments

Follow @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... Read More

Filmmakers-On-The-Phone | A Top 10 List

21.12.2020 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 27 Comments

  Follow Distracted For more Filmmakers-On-The-Phone, you can check-out the full list of nominations here. This is my final selection of 10…                               RECENT TOP 10 LISTS Actors-Wearing-Hats-Stripes Actors-In-Dressing-Rooms People-In-Cafes-Smoking Cafe Directors Read More

Cinema Candlelight | An Exquisite Top 10 Film List

20.02.2021 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 28 Comments

Follow @distractedfilm   The full thread of nominations for this list can be found here. Here’s my final selection of 10 for Cinema Candlelight…                                   TOP 10 LISTS Cinema... Read More

The Great Acting Blog: “A True Actor-Director Collaboration”

29.02.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 3 Comments

Boredom Of The Disgust & Monotony Of The Tediousness, is a film made up of a series of scenes but there is no through-action – they are linked because each of them is about cinema itself. The film has documentary scenes (as discussed in Part 1), a... Read More

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… Francoise Dorleac and Jean-Paul Belmondo. That Man From Rio (Philippe... Read More

Actors-Wearing-Hats-And-Stripes | A Charming Top 10 List

03.12.2020 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 16 Comments

Follow Distracted For more Actors-Wearing-Hats-And-Stripes, you can check-out the full list of nominations here. This is my final selection of 10…                                     RECENT TOP 10 LISTS Actors-In-Dressing-Rooms People-In-Cafes-Smoking... Read More

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

11.03.2017 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 31 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,... Read More

Anyone For Tennis? – The Top 10 Cinema Racquets

17.04.2017 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 0 Comments

Follow @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... Read More

Top 10 Actors-On-Trains-In-Cinema

10.04.2017 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 18 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... Read More

James Devereaux’s Noir-ish Project Is Released Worldwide On VOD

14.07.2019 , Noirish Project , 30 Comments

A BRAND NEW CUT OF NOIR-ISH PROJECT NOW AVAILABLE ON VIMEO-ON-DEMAND Director’s Note. July, 2019.  We made Noir-ish Project throughout 2013. What started off as a filmmaking exercise quietly transformed into a carefully composed feature film. To borrow from Melville and Rivette, I intentionally undercooked... Read More