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The Great Acting Blog: “Questions, Questions, Questions….”

20.04.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

One of the most demanding aspects of an actor's life is the constant need to improve, year by year, month by month, day by day, moment by moment. There is no let up – when one set of questions has been answered, a new set...

The Great Acting Blog: “Set Your Own Standards”

13.04.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 67 Comments

The test of an actor's dedication is often this: “how much shit can you eat?” And the measurement of the quantity of shit eaten, is the measurement of that actor's dedication, ie – the more shit you can eat the more dedicated you are. When...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Good Actor”

06.04.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

The acting profession is hopelessly oversubscribed, and it seems the individual actor has little or no control over his ability to construct a body of work. The challenge for all actors is to make themselves heard amid the cacophony. However, the ...

Man Crossing Street – Short Film (Warning: Spoiler Alert!)

03.04.2011 , Uncategorized , 26 Comments

I'm shooting this short on Monday, and I haven't directed in ages, so I hope the old magic is still there. The idea is a simple one: to explore the rythmn of the city, and more specifically how the city's rythmn is determined by the...

Peter Mullan In My Name Is Joe – Acting Is Poetry | The Great Acting Blog

30.03.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 30 Comments

Once in a blue moon a performance comes along which is so excellent it forces me to completely re-examine what it is I'm doing in my own work, and Peter Mullan's in My Name Is Joe is one such performance. Mullan plays Joe Kavanagh, a...

Jesse Richards On Closure Of Catharsis

28.03.2011 , Uncategorized , 0 Comments

Filmmaker and artist, Jesse Richards, offers the first critical response to Closure Of Catharsis. "First of all I’d like to note that I am not a critic in ANY sense, but I have been so inspired by this film by Rouzbeh Rashidi that I feel...

The Great Acting Blog: “Don’t Jabber, Man”.

23.03.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

The clip is from the film version of Harold Pinter's The Caretaker, it's a play I've always longed to do. The work you do is a reflection of who you are, and they say we tend to employ people who are the same as us....

Closure Of Catharsis: Poster Art

21.03.2011 , Uncategorized , 248 Comments

Check-out the spectacular new poster for Closure Of Catharsis, designed by Pouya Ahmadi. Visit www.pouyaahmadi.com to view Pouya's portfolio. And please do let us know what you think. Many thanks. James...

The Great Acting Blog: “Boring! Boring!”

16.03.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 15 Comments

I love reading interviews with actors, filmmakers, playwrights etcetera, infact. with anyone of note who I admire, it gives me pleasure, and sometimes I gain an insight or hear something articulated which makes sense of something I felt but couldn...

Chishu Ryu In Late Spring – The Great Acting Blog

09.03.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 37 Comments

This week, I watched Yasujiro Ozu's 1949 masterpiece, Late Spring, and was immediately captivated by the performance of Ozu regular, Chishu Ryu, who plays a widower called Professor Somiya, and spends most of the film trying to get his daughter No...