I recently watched a film which, by all accounts, I should have loved: the precise full frontal camerawork, the pared back narrative, “gaps” in the montage which encourages the viewer to create the film in his own imagination, and I am always inte...
Read MoreRichie Abraham is a cinephile who lives and works in Mumbai, and whose regular comments on this blog have been wonderfully intelligent and insightful, and at times mindblowing. And so it is I am delighted to be presenting The Great Acting Blog's v...
Read More"Drama games wear very thin and an intelligent actor will soon resent being treated like a child" - Peter Brook In Ladybird Ladybird, Crissy Rock plays Maggie Conlon, a woman who has had four children by four different fathers. One evening, Rock l...
Read More"Actors, by the nature of their calling, have a simpler, purer conception of art. They have dedicated their lives to individual, personal expression—to what you are calling “holding onto your mind’s eye view”—against all the bureaucratic and socia...
Read More"Actors, by the nature of their calling, have a simpler, purer conception of art. They have dedicated their lives to individual, personal expression—to what you are calling “holding onto your mind’s eye view”—against all the bureaucratic and socia...
Read MoreAs the The Great Acting Blog approaches it's first birthday, I decided to compile a filmography of all the films mentioned in blogs during that year. As soon as I glanced over the list, I was immediately struck by the number of big hitters not...
Read MoreWhen rehearsing a scene for the first time, it is important to make a start. I used to find this blindingly obvious notion extremely difficult, and couldn't bear to walk across the stage until I was solidly off-book and confidently understood the ...
Read MoreDevil And The Deep is an old Marion Gering film from 1932, and stars Charles Laughton as a submarine commander who is insanely jealous of any attention given to his wife, played by Tallulah Bankhead, so insanely jealous infact, that he drives her ...
Read MoreTwo things happened in the last couple of weeks which got me thinking about acting and writing. Firstly, I finished writing a feature length screenplay which I started work on 21 months ago, in October 2009. I abandoned work on it last August, tel...
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"Look for the truth and tell it" - Harold Pinter Dirk Bogarde is a great actor. A great actor. He shows us that a person walking through a hallway can be a work of art. Admittedly, I know less about his earlier work, when he...
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