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The Great Acting Blog: “Mr Hurt”

06.10.2010 , The Great Acting Blog , 17 Comments

Recently, and by coincidence, I have seen three of John Hurt's major performances: As Krapp in the film version of Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, as icy hitman Braddock in Stephen Frear's 80s film noir The Hit, and as the bigotted Old Man Pea...

Singlemindedf**koffedness

29.09.2010 , Uncategorized , 3 Comments

via youtube.com The video is Jack Nicholson as Jimmy Hoffa laying down the law to Robert Kennedy. Most people wake-up in the morning and go to work and repeat this cycle over the course of the month and are guaranteed payment for that work at...

“The Growth of a Film Artist: Part 2” – Ray Carney

25.09.2010 , Uncategorized , 27 Comments

‎"Actors, by the nature of their calling, have a simpler, purer conception of art", so says Ray Carney in a 2002 interview, where he allows us to infer that the future of cinema lies with actors. The Growth of a Film Artist: Part II Ray...

The Great Acting Blog: “Waiting For Godot”

22.09.2010 , The Great Acting Blog , 3 Comments

Watching Michael Lindsay-Hogg's production of Waiting For Godot, made as part of Beckett On Film, I finally came to realize the play's true power and why it's held up as a masterwork of 20th century drama. I once read it and found it tedious, and...

The Great Acting Blog: “This Then That”

15.09.2010 , The Great Acting Blog , 4 Comments

Per Oscarsson's performance in Henning Carlsen's Sult is one of the greatest performances in all cinema and a brilliant example of an actor expressing the unfathomable complexity of one man's state of being by performing simple actions scene by sc...

The Great Acting Blog: “Hunchback”

08.09.2010 , The Great Acting Blog , 1,803 Comments

When an actor's performance is dull and plodding, it is usually because the actor is trying to supply a predetermined effect ( this may manifest itself as line readings [we've all heard the gag of the actor struggling to workout which word to stre...

Become That Person You’ve Been Looking For

01.09.2010 , The Great Acting Blog , 57 Comments

“"It's the cinema I want to see. These are the films I am growing from seed. If we're talking about things like I Am Love, and the work I make with Luca or the work I make with Lynn Hershman, or even the work with...

Love Your Work

25.08.2010 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

I want to be a great actor, I've always wanted to be a great actor, and I've dedicated my entire life to that object. I've always loved the movies, I've always loved the magic of the movies. As a kid I would visit the Odeon...

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