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Matti Pellonpää – The Deliciously Subtle Ironist | The Great Acting Blog

13.07.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 18 Comments

[caption id="attachment_175658031" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Matti Pellonpää with Kati Outinen in Aki Kaurismaki's Take Care Of Your Scarf Tatiana.[/caption] Matti Pellonpää is most closely associated with the filmmaking brothers Kaurismaki, Aki and Mika, acting in eighteen of their pictures. Some even said he was Aki's on-screen alter-ego....

The Great Acting Blog: “Do What You Want To Do”

13.04.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

In Italian cinema during the 1950s, film actors' voices were dubbed with those of theatre actors. There was nothing wrong with the way they spoke, they were dubbed because film acting at that time was not considered to be respectable, and film actors were...

5 Must-See Screen Performances | The Great Acting Blog

07.12.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 2,892 Comments

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1278"] *Per Oscarsson in Sult [Hunger].[/caption] I chose this five because I believe that watching them invites us to question our self-imposed limitations of what acting can be, and inspire us to re-draw those limitations. Each performance shows that, through acting, we can...

An Essential Performance – Kati Outinen In The Match Factory Girl | The Great Acting Blog

13.11.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 3,138 Comments

Kati Outinen is a essential actor in the films of Finnish auteur, Aki Kaurismaki, appearing in no less than ten of them. She is one of the foremost exponents of the peculiar dead pan, minimalist acting found in Kaurismaki's films, where he often prohibits the...

The Great Acting Blog: “Simple Cinema Is The Actor’s Friend’

18.10.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

This week, I had the sheer joy of watching not one, but TWO Hong Song Soo pictures at the theatre. Nobody's Daughter Haewon was the first of his films to ever receive a UK theatrical release. The double wammy happened because he made two films this year, and...

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Matti Pellonpää – The Deliciously Subtle Ironist | The Great Acting Blog

The Great Acting Blog: “Do What You Want To Do”

5 Must-See Screen Performances | The Great Acting Blog

An Essential Performance – Kati Outinen In The Match Factory Girl | The Great Acting Blog

The Great Acting Blog: “Simple Cinema Is The Actor’s Friend’