When an actor is an artist - Béatrice Dalle is our example here.
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1050"] Béatrice Dalle, Jean-Jacques Beineix's Betty Blue...
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="463"] Jean-Paul Belmondo: 9th April 1933 - 6th September 2021[/caption]
For those of us driven and intoxicated by the history of cinema, Belmondo is one of those figures who transcends his own work. He forms part of a tapestry of cinematic atmospheres; haunting...
Working off the other actor - what is it?
In performance you focus on what the other actor is doing and respond accordingly moment-by-moment. Your performance is created in-the-moment.
This is very different to the 'acting-as-presentation' model, where the actor maps out every gesture, every inflection in...
Marcello Mastroianni possessed the rare ability to work his moment-to-moment impulses in concert with the dramatic structure of a scene. Many actors lose their shape in search of 'naturalism', while others are overly technical and lose creativity. With Mastroianni however, his performances are seemless. It is...
Performance is the artistic expression of the actor's individuality, as exemplified by Cary Grant.
Cary Grant was criticised for being a "conservative actor" - there was a feeling among critics that his work stayed within the light-comedic persona that had made him so fantastically popular, rarely...
Artistic drive is essential if we are to achieve all that we need to - this post looks at the experience of Cary Grant in order to find it's key.
Cary Grant was actually born as Archie Leach - a poor, crummy kid in Bristol, England....