Cinema, Dream And Tolstoy
"In a dream everything is uncertain, senseless and contradictory except the overall feeling that directs the dream" Tolstoy, War And Peace ; cinema Further Reading...
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Read MoreMichael Rozek’s Marianne – The Extraordinary Gaze Of Isabelle Huppert
Michael Rozek’s Marianne is a one actor film and the one actor here is the truly great Isabelle Huppert. It's a combination which unsurprisingly produces a film that is both unusual and extraordinary. Rozek eschews the usual garnish and trickery which come as standard in...
Read MoreCarol Reed’s The Running Man – A Confused Sense Of The Incomplete
Carol Reed's The Running Man is a strange film. Among Reed's filmography it does not have a strong legacy. When we hear his name our first thought is The Third Man, quickly followed by other classics like Odd Man Out, Our Man In Havana or...
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Visconti And Delon: Collaboration – Why Did It Work?
Originally posted as the thread The Cinematic Alchemy of Luchino Visconti and Alain Delon...
Read MoreAlain Delon, The Spring Samurai – 8th November 1935 – 18th August 2024
[caption id="attachment_175666914" align="alignnone" width="1200"] Delon in Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samourai[/caption] RIP Alain Delon, The Spring Samurai a true cinema artist, a master, and a rare actor who defined an entire aesthetic. Thank-you for lighting the way....
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Creativity Is Progression | The Great Acting Blog
How creativity and progression are linked. Creativity is about starting with a blank sheet of paper and discovering what might fill it. If we simply repeat what we have done before then it is simply not creativity. Creativity is a process of discovery, largely through trial...
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Some Practical Philosophy For The Year Ahead | The Great Acting Blog
Subscribe | @greatactingblog Optimism; setbacks are temporary and limited, not permanent and pervasive. They will pass if you keep working. Quitting; if you quit then you throw away all the lessons you learned from your struggles. The expansive mindset; the conservative part of our natures...
Read MoreDean Kavanagh’s Hole In The Head Premieres At Seville European Film Festival
[caption id="attachment_175666794" align="alignnone" width="2500"] Anja Mahler, Dean Kavanagh and James Devereaux. Seville European Film Festival, November 2022.[/caption] Dean Kavanagh's Hole in The Head had it's European/Spanish premiere at Seville European Film Festival, playing as part of the Endless Revolutions strand, alongside work by filmmakers such as...
Read MoreJohn Cleese On Creativity – A Review | The Great Acting Blog
| Subscribe | John Cleese's book, Creativity, gives a fascinating insight into the creative process of one of the minds behind Monty Python and Fawlty Towers. One of the joys of this book is that it can be read in such a short gallop - just under...
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