Subscribe | @Distractedfilm [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="680"] Michel Piccoli in Marco Ferreri's Dillinger Is Dead [1969]. Related reading; Vision Of An Actor.[/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Alain Delon in The Sicilian Clan [Henri Verneuil, 1969]. Thanks again @RomanPBone1. Related reading; 'Alain Delon'.[/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="680"] Humphrey Bogart....
Read MoreSubscribe | @GreatActingBlog [caption id="attachment_175665318" align="aligncenter" width="680"] “I lived in my dreams” - Michel Piccoli [27th December 1925 – 12th May 2020].[/caption] Michel Piccoli, one of the greatest of all screen actors, has passed . The sheer magnitude of Piccoli's accomplishment is unfathomable; over 200 films stretching back...
Read MoreSubscribe | @Distractedfilm [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="680"] Jean-Paul Belmondo with Serge Reggiani in Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Doulos [1962].[/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="790"] Joan Crawford. Letty Lynton [Clarence Brown, 1932]. Thank-you @Dean_Frey.[/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="679"] Catherine Deneuve in Jacques Demy's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg [1964], with Anne Vernon...
Read MoreSubscribe | @Distractedfilm [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1296"] Jacques Dutronc and Romy Schneider in their cinephile home in Zulawski's That Most Important Thing: Love [1975].[/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="680"] Poster for Hitchcock’s L’Enigme De La Maison Du Docteur Edwardes, aka Spellbound, in Godard’s Une Femme Mariée [1964].[/caption] [caption id=""...
Read MoreSubscribe | @GreatActingBlog Being an actor is, at times, complex. Often it is difficult to make sense of our experiences, to give them articulation, because they are too acute. We are working with our emotions, our bodies, our personalities, with our inner creative impulses - it...
Read MoreSubscribe | @Distractedfilm [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="679"] Jean Cocteau in his own Testament of Orpheus [1960].[/caption] [gallery type="square" ids="175665232,175665233"] Lauren Bacall. Thanks again @RomanPBone1. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1333"] The Day The Earth Stood Still [Robert Wise, 1951]. Nominated by @MichaelVNixon.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_175665235" align="aligncenter" width="499"] Darkness Light Darkness (Jan Svankmajer, 1989)....
Read MoreSubscribe | @GreatActingBlog Great actors seek out exceptional scenarios in order to bring out the best of themselves. They continually test themselves by entering into situations where they have to rise and strengthen in order to cope. This constant striving, constant working, gives their life a...
Read MoreSubscribe | @Distractedfilm [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="680"] Dirk Bogarde in Victim [Basil Dearden, 1961]. Related post; Symptom Of A Lie.[/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="680"] Claire Bloom and Richard Burton in The Spy Who Came In From The Cold [Martin Ritt, 1965]. Suggested by @PaulVonMitchell and @stonemonkts.[/caption] [caption id=""...
Read MoreSubscribe | @Distractedfilm [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="540"] Pasolini. At home in Rome in 1971. Thanks @sergioandreola.[/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="680"] Chantal Akerman. Je, Tu, Il, Elle [1975]. Thank-you @lunarscp. Related; Dreamer In A Dream - Delphine Seyrig In Jeanne Dielman.[/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="536"] Alfred Hitchcock with Alma....
Read More“there is nothing so interesting on stage as a man trying to get a knot out of his shoelaces.” - Bertolt Brecht Chantal Akerman's “Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles” is a three and a half hour masterpiece about the meticulous dom...
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