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The Great Acting Blog: “Create A Culture Of Care”

16.01.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

Email and the proliferation of social media has meant that we now have easier access to each other than ever before. The downside to this however, is that we can feel bombarded with requests for help from people we don't know. It's easy to be...

The Great Acting Blog: “Don’t Waste Good Acting Years – Shoot A Picture”

15.01.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 2 Comments

There are too many actors out there letting good acting years drift by, there are too many actors with frustrated ambition, there are too many actors who quit due to lack of opportunity. There are too many actors chasing after work they don't really want....

The Great Acting Blog: “In Which Direction Are You Heading?”

14.01.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 24 Comments

Bad actors are basically socialites, not workers. They meticulously compose a persona for themselves, going to great lengths to be charming and establish themselves in a room. Yet their work is ordinary at best because they never put in the time or effort necessary to...

The Great Acting Blog: “A Dazzling Intensity”

13.01.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 18 Comments

Enthusiasm, energy and focus go an awful long way to convincing somebody of your case, or in getting them to do what you want them to do. You can make sense and appear to be reasonable, but this has less effect if you lack...

The Great Acting Blog: “Create A Well Of Inspiration”

12.01.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

"you have to protect the spark of connection that drove you to make the picture in the first place" - Martin Scorsese Of course Scorsese was referring to filmmaking, but this same point, of "protecting the spark of connection", could apply to almost any art form....

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...

Film Blogger, Nuts4R2, Reviews Noirish Project

10.01.2014 , Noirish Project , 61 Comments

“it’s kind of like watching a muffled urban road movie punctuated by the odd, sobering contrasts of absurdist humour stabbing out from the dialogue’s inescapable bursts of human non-connection” Nuts4R2 has written up a terrific review …. Read it in full here https://vimeo.com/74585515 Subscribe and get email updates about the...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Future Is Bright For Acting”

10.01.2014 , The Great Acting Blog, Uncategorized , 0 Comments

Martin Scorsese wrote an open letter to his daughter recently on why the future of cinema "will be bright". In one paragraph he writes...

The Great Acting Blog: “Don’t Act! Stop Acting!”

09.01.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

Don't Act! Stop acting! and like phrases, are dumb and meaningless. Infact, I think they are damaging and are part of the contemporary predilection for degrading and disrespecting actors and acting. The inference is that acting is somehow shameful, a despicable habit that the actor...

The Great Acting Blog: “Do What Brings Out The Best In You”

08.01.2014 , Uncategorized , 4 Comments

We too often go with the flow. We too often do the thing that is pragmatic and practical and reasonable but which does not necessarily inspire us. Consequently, we sort of trudge through it, without joy, and our results are very often less than spectacular. We...

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