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The Great Acting Blog: “Take Responsibility”

06.07.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 2 Comments

All this bullshit among actors who get scared that a colleague might outdo them professionally, or outshine them in the work, is really just that: bullshit. If your fellow actor is playing the scene brilliantly, don't fume and politic (and I've co...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Face Of Great Acting – Maria Falconetti In The Passion Of Joan Of Arc

29.06.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 1,814 Comments

“Nothing in the world can be compared to the human face. There is no greater experience in a studio than to witness the expression of a sensitive face under the mysterious power of inspiration. To see it animated from inside, and turning into poet...

Oliver Reed In Paranoic – Enjoy Your Work | The Great Acting Blog

22.06.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 111 Comments

“I've been drinking...

The Great Acting Blog: “Self Direction, First Principles”

15.06.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

“no matter how good a phrase or a simile he may have, if he [the writer] puts it in where it is not absolutely necessary and irreplaceable he is spoiling his work for egotism.” Ernest Hemingway, Death In The Afternoon. This week, I broke one...

The Great Acting Blog: “DIY Part 2”

08.06.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Delighted to share "Man Crossing Street" with you, a no wave short film about the individual amid the turbulence of the city. So often the actor must make compromises in his work because he is dealing with directors, other actors, writers etc, and...

Charlotte Rampling’s Example | The Great Acting

01.06.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 91 Comments

“ I could have been a superstar in America – I was certainly taken out there. But I said, “no way Jose, I'm not staying here in this madhouse”. So I left and said, “I'm gonna make arthouse films now”. - Charlotte Rampling. Whether you...

The Great Acting Blog: “DIY – Part 1”

25.05.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 2 Comments

This week, and by a curious chain of events, I ended up editing my new short film, Man Crossing Street, myself. Now, I hate computers and I know almost nothing about editing, so this was a decent little challenge for me, and so using the...

The Great Acting Blog: “You’ve Only Got Today”

18.05.2011 , Uncategorized , 1 Comment

Many actors think that the big prize of stardom will be theirs if only they just hang on in there, no matter how difficult things seem now, just give it another couple of years, afterall, didn't such-and-such-a-famous-actor spend 15 years getting ...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Ventura Conundrum”

11.05.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 29 Comments

"I learnt how to act by watching movies, sometimes up to six a day" - Lino VenturaI first became aware of Lino Ventura when I watched Jean-Pierre Melville's French Resistance masterpiece, L'Armee Des Ombres (Army Of Shadows), where he played a tou...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Objective”

04.05.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

“There are musicians who practice all the time but we actors are not able to do that. We don't have an instrument, except if you say we are our own instrument, and yet I always try to continue searching and working for the moment where...

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