Did he remember running down that train platform filming A Hard Day's Night or the edit that made the cinema screen?
Another passenger on the platform filmed the rat climbing onto the snoozing stranger's lap and managing to take a close-up photo of itself before the phone's owner awoke.
With studios ever eager to lure potential customers away from their many streaming platforms, films with inflated budgets need to appeal to the broadest audience.
'Cannes can be a fantastic platform for films, but can also destroy them.' Yet he admits: 'I'm very, very confident about the film so I'm as eager as any first-time director who naively goes in expecting it to play well.' Stoned was a 10-year obsession for Woolley, who even hired a detective to track down people who were at Cotchford Farm when Jones was found dead in his pool.
"We felt there was a real opportunity to develop a platform where films and theaters could benefit from having a guaranteed audience in place for screenings, helping to reduce uncertainty about whether a film could find an audience," they said.
She currently holds a number of directorships and is on the boards of several companies including Mubito, a Scandinavian D2C music platform; Pulse Films, a music and factual entertainment production company and youmeo, a B2B2C social media aggregator among others.
VIRTUAL TOUR: Hollywood's Walk of Fame These days the Berlinale serves as a prestigious platform for films of all lengths and genres, including highly experimental works.
And there's no denying the impact of watching the best actors of a generation coming forward to play people their own age on screen -- and frequently to use the platform these films provide to talk about what it all means to be entering a new stage of life on the other side of the middle years.
When we started our careers you couldn't stream film online, now it's the primary delivery platform for film.
Though the events on the platform were filmed by several people present, the exact details remain controversial – and the film does not use the real names of the police officers involved.
Advocacy groups often provide an online platform for film-makers as well.
