An Extraordinary Cinema Culture Collection

Issue #34

Distracted Film

Feb 19, 2023

Nastassja Kinski and Harry Dean Stanton in Paris, Texas [Wim Wenders, 1984]. Thanks @TedToToe for nominating this.

Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr in An Affair To Remember [Leo McCarey, 1957]. Thanks @MsKathleenQuinn.

Antonioni’s L’Avventura [1960]. And thanks @Tourneur.

Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable in It Happened One Night [Frank Capra, 1934]. Thanks to @DemolitionsLDN and @Dean_Frey.

Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo in The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg [Jacques Demy, 1964]. Thank-you @RomanPBone1.

Barbara Stanwyck in Stella Dallas [King Vidor, 1937]. And thanks to @Gwen_Axe for this one.

Fernando Rey and Angelina Molina in That Obscure Object Of Desire [Luis Buñuel, 1977]. @Pinball_Lez nominated this one.

Gary Cooper and Ann Harding in Peter Ibbetson [Henry Hathaway, 1935].

Valerie Allen, Doris Day and Rock Hudson in Pillow Talk [Michael Gordon, 1959]. Thanks @WtchAllNite.

Buster Keaton and Valerie Fox in Cops [Edward F. Cline, 1922]. Suggested by @HarryPoulter7.

Bonus Material!

Forever Louise Brooks @ForeverLouiseB1

@distractedfilm Clara and Thelma get separated in Call Her Savage (1932)…😉

WATCHING

Sqürl - Carter Logan and Jim Jarmusch - Man Ray. Mindblowing.

THINKING

“To conceive a film, I always need to place myself in front of a blank sheet. It is the shortest road to the blank and empty screen, with the best conditions. In a way, it is like working directly on the screen itself.” - Pere Portabella

THINKING

"Cinema is being trapped in the dark with an image. Nothing more. No matter what the image. A car going at 100 miles an hour or a face saying "no". A concert that has been filmed is also cinema; there is music and then there’s an image. The rest is nonsense. There is no theory that can support it." - Marguerite Duras

FILMMAKING

IFTA screen discussion about the making of Hole In The Head. Director, cast and sound designer discuss the acting and filmmaking process . Check it out here.