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The Great Acting Blog: “Great Actors Love Personal Truth”

07.01.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 2 Comments

The inability, or unwillingness, to examine oneself and what one has done, is the sign of a deep sense of personal worthlessness. Truthful reflection is impossible because if what one finds is not to one's liking, then an existential catastrophe may ensue. In acting, this...

Dean Kavanagh Responds To Noirish Project

06.01.2014 , Noirish Project , 41 Comments

Dean Kavanagh is a filmmaker. His most recent work includes the internet mini-series "Late Hours of the Night". He also formed Easter Film Group, and is a member of Experimental Film Society. James, Finished "Noirish Project" and I loved it. You created a very distant and bizarre world. Something...

The Great Acting Blog: “10 Words To Describe Great Acting”

06.01.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 12,924 Comments

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({ google_ad_client: "ca-pub-3419632265420715", enable_page_level_ads: true }); The following words are common to all descriptions of great performances. Disciplined Precise Intense Kind Generous Forceful Strong Direct Simple and...

Great Actors On Acting | The Great Acting Blog

05.01.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 1,666 Comments

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Jean Gabin in Marcel Carne's Le Jour Se Leve[/caption] Insight, interest and inspiration...

The Great Acting Blog: “True Failure”

04.01.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 68 Comments

Chasing goals we don't care about is easy because it doesn't really matter whether we accomplish them or not. It's not scary because the potential for hurt should we fail, is absent. So we can continue to drift along, with the pressure off, making a...

The Great Acting Blog: “Overcoming Post-Holiday Strangeness – Motivate By Degrees”

03.01.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 3 Comments

The transition from the holiday period into the swing of work for the new year, can be very strange. We want to get back into our old routine, we want our workload to increase to normal levels and we want to return to our previous...

The Great Acting Blog: “An Acting Career Has Multiple Destinations”

02.01.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

An acting career is not about a moment, or a judgement. It's not about "making it" by a certain age. Our careers rarely unfold in the way that we thought they would. They rarely move along as quickly as we had hoped, our progress is rarely...

Noirish Project Teaser Trailer!

01.01.2014 , Noirish Project , 0 Comments

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

01.01.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 37 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: “Robert De Niro – You’re Always Lucky”

31.12.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

His myth was created during that run of films with Martin Scorsese in the 1970s, and augmented by Godfather Part II and later, Once Upon A Time In America. By the time he did Goodfellas in 1990, he was a fully fledged movie star. For...

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