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14.04.2019 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 14 Comments

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Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog: “Samuel Beckett’s Film”

13.04.2015 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 2 Comments

http://youtu.be/sFNH4XS6760 "Film is a film written by Samuel Beckett, his only screenplay. It was commissioned by Barney Rosset of Grove Press. Writing began on 5 April 1963 with a first draft completed within four days. A second draft was produced by 22 May and a forty-leaf...

A Video Poem For Buster Keaton

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Buster Keaton: Symmetry Of Laughter

20.02.2015 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 0 Comments

https://vimeo.com/109637101 "After watching twenty-nine Buster Keaton films, I was struck by his use of symmetry and center framing. This is an attempt to capture that. Before Stanley Kubrick and Wes Anderson made it famous for modern audiences, there was Buster Keaton." - Vince Di Meglio “The greatest...

The Great Acting Blog: “Buster Keaton’s One Week”

11.01.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Rpt6cFRkxY By his own admission, Keaton did not think of himself as an actor, largely because back then an actor was somebody who worked in the theatre with dialogue. Keaton's art of course, was primarily physical, spending his formative years in vaudeville, then later employing the cinema...

The Great Acting Blog: “Where Does This Fear Of Independence Come From?”

01.01.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 2 Comments

Buster Keaton believed that the locus of artistic control in film should be with the performer. His style of long shots and long takes, was largely developed in order to give his performance as much freedom as possible, and to draw attention to his physical...

The Great Acting Blog: “Define An Aesthetic”

13.07.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 3 Comments

We are living in an era where there are more people offering themselves as actors than ever before. You can try to get ahead of the game by turning yourself into a great actor, by striving to be better than everyone else. But you can...

The Great Acting Blog: “Achieve Something Extraordinary”

13.06.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 7 Comments

If you have no conception of yourself as an artist, if you have no vision of the results you want, if you're not working to please yourself, then you must be unhappy. You're whole life is about trying to satisfy other people in order to...

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