Subscribe | @GreatActingBlog [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="563"] ”Please see who I am. Please fall in love with me, not a fantasy.” - Kim Novak[/caption] Like all great art, a hidden truth is revealed when the real and the imaginary combine, and the viewer experiences the clatter of...
Read MoreDistracted | @Distractedfilm [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="1212"] Marlon Brando, Miiko Taka and Miyoshi Umeki. Sayonara [Joshua Logan, 1957]. Nominated by @GloriaBB2.[/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="674"] Toshirô Mifune. Publicity for Shogun (1980).[/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] Kichiemon Nakamura and Kiwako Taichi in Kuroneko [Kaneto Shindô, 1968]. Thanks @12pt9.[/caption] [caption id=""...
Read MoreSubscribe | @GreatActingBlog "But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated." - Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man And The Sea It seems my last post, Be Comfortable Not Knowing, about anticipating adversity, has received some pushback for somehow offering...
Read Morehttps://www.instagram.com/p/B68vlVHhDZs/?igshid=ye8myars5it9 The 4K restoration of La Dolce Vita at NFT 1 at the BFI. Anita Ekberg & the film were impossibly beautiful. And you got some feeling of what is was like to be a cinema-goer in 1960. I found myself wanting to enter into the film and...
Read More"It is not a sign of ignorance not to know the answers. But there is great merit in facing the questions" - David Mamet, True and False Much of our lives as artists is not within our control. Often, we must wait for our imagination to...
Read More@Distractedfilm My annual ode to the cinema I love is here. The list is far longer than in previous years, mainly because MUBI offered retrospectives from the likes of Wim Wenders and Hong Sang Soo. Anyway, I hope you find the list provocative and, perhaps, you'll be...
Read MoreDistracted | @Distractedfilm [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="540"] Jean-Paul Belmondo. Alain Resnais' Stavisky. Thanks to @mskathleenquinn.[/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="564"] Marlene Dietrich. Studio portrait, 1932.[/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="799"] Terry-Thomas in Too Many Crooks [Mario Zampi, 1959]. Nominated by @Dean_Frey.[/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="639"] Roddy McDowall in Evil Under The...
Read More Hal Hartley has been a great inspiration to me for many, many years. He is a true cinema artist, and, I believe, one of the most important contemporary American filmmakers. It gave me enormous pleasure then, to become a backer of his latest feature film, Where...
Read MoreDistracted | @Distractedfilm [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Louise Brooks & Gustav Diessl in Pandora’s Box [GW Pabst, 1929]. Thanks @ForeverLouiseB1.[/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Scarface [Howard Hawks, 1932]. Nominated by @filmkuratorium.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_175664775" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Mickey's Christmas Carol [Burney Mattinson, 1983].[/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="1265"] Bela Lugosi in The...
Read MoreI confess I've never paid much attention to 'optimism'. It always seemed nebulous and watery to me, like 'being positive' - vague notions which lead to dangerous self-delusion. I've always preferred cold, hard, evidence-based analyses, concrete action and giving myself over to that which I...
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