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The Great Acting Blog “Michel Piccoli On His Work, Directors And How He Chooses Projects”

15.12.2018 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="805"] Michel Piccoli with Manoel de Oliveira[/caption] Originally published in The Guardian in May 2002 By Peter Lennon It is probably unwise to suggest to one of France's leading film stars that actors are little more than marionettes. But Michel Piccoli, who has 170 films...

4 Ways To Maintain Your Artistic Energy | The Great Acting Blog

12.08.2018 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Only Do That Which Inspires Commitment And Purpose In You Because this means we're doing what we really want to do, we're doing what's meaningful to us, and we feel strong. Alternatively, we function much less effectively when we undertake work that does not inspire us. Think...

Ray Milland In The Lost Weekend – A Defence Of A Great Performance | The Great Acting Blog

08.04.2018 , The Great Acting Blog , 27 Comments

In Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend, Ray Milland delivers one of the great Hollywood performances. He plays Don Birham, a writer so plagued by self-doubt that he addicts himself to alcohol in order to cope. The action takes place over four days: Milland is supposed...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Dignity Of The Actor”

16.10.2017 , Distracted, The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Post-production continues on Distracted - sound design and refining the visual aesthetic. It's a big job and we are progressing nicely with it. As we head toward completion, I begin to reflect on the past year, producing Distracted, and have decided to formulate my thoughts...

John Hurt – An Extraordinary Sensibility | The Great Acting Blog

18.02.2017 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

[caption id="attachment_175661512" align="aligncenter" width="540"] John Hurt (1940 - 2017)[/caption] Tolstoy explained it to us when he said that a true work of art was the transmission of a feeling experienced by the artist. The viewer, in turn, receives the work, and so experiences the same feeling. John Hurt is...

The Great Acting Blog: “A Principled Actor”

26.07.2016 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Peter Sellers' performance in Hal Ashby's 1979 film, Being There, is quite brilliant. It's one of eye-watering precision and discipline, and, like all great performances, it feels inevitable; the role could not be played any other way nor by any other actor. It came as...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Career That Almost Never Was”

09.05.2016 , The Great Acting Blog , 11 Comments

[caption id="attachment_175660147" align="aligncenter" width="612"] Cybill Shepherd & Peter Bogdanovich on the set of The Last Picture Show.[/caption] By casting her in his 1971 masterpiece, The Last Picture Show, director Peter Bogdanovich opened up a 40 year career for Cybill Shepherd, a career which has included playing...

The Actor As Spiritual Warrior – Lee Marvin | The Great Acting Blog

22.02.2016 , The Great Acting Blog , 8 Comments

"Lee Marvin - A Personal Portrait" is a documentary by director John Boorman, Marvin's friend and collaborator. It is about 40 minutes long and completely fascinating. If you haven't got time to watch it, I've made some notes below. It could be said that the...

A Lesson From Catherine Deneuve In Belle De Jour – Accentuate Your Individuality

30.08.2015 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Subscribe | @GreatActingBlog [caption id="attachment_175659579" align="aligncenter" width="504"] Catherine Deneuve in Luis Bunuel's Belle De Jour.[/caption] All art is truth. Something cannot be art if it doesn't ring with truth. And the truth is usually provocative, usually uncomfortable - that's why we rarely like facing up to it. The...

The Great Acting Blog: “Pressures And Distractions?”

24.08.2015 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

[caption id="attachment_175659470" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] On the set of Marcel Carne's Les Enfants De Paradis, 1945.[/caption] Marcel Carne's 1945 film, Les Enfants Du Paradis, is set in the Parisien theatre of the 1840s, a world teeming with "hucksters and aristocrats, thieves and courtesans, pimps and seers". It's an...

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