Subscribe | @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...
Read MoreSubscribe | @Distractedfilm [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="540"] Jeanne Moreau and Jean Gabin. On Gas-Oil [Gilles Grangier, 1955].[/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="660"] Jacques Tati's Mon Oncle [1958]. And thanks to @Fatimahwithh for this.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_175665050" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Jitka Cerhová and Ivana Karbanová in Daisies [Věra Chytilová, 1966]. Thank-you @joojosxoxo.[/caption] [caption...
Read MoreDistracted | @Distractedfilm [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="533"] Jean Gabin and Michèle Morgan. Marcel Carné's Port of Shadows [1939]. "...
Read MoreDistracted | @Distractedfilm [gallery type="square" ids="175665010,175665011,175665012"] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Stanley Holloway and Alec Guinness in The Lavender Hill Mob [Charles Crichton, 1951]. Nominated by the great @MrIvanJohnson.[/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500"] The magnificent Cary Grant. Thanks @RomanPBone1 for the recommendation.[/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="901"] Sophia Loren. Thanks to...
Read MoreDistracted | @Distractedfilm [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1200"] Brigitte Bardot in La Femme Et Le Pantin [Julien Duvivier, 1959]. Thank-you @RachelVDZ.[/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="618"] Gary Merrill, Bette Davis, Celeste Holn, Hugh Marlowe in All About Eve [Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950]. And thanks to @_Art_Love_Life_ for this one.[/caption] [caption...
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