The Great Acting Blog: “The Future Is Bright For Acting”
Martin Scorsese wrote an open letter to his daughter recently on why the future of cinema "will be bright". In one paragraph he writes...
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The Great Acting Blog: “Don’t Act! Stop Acting!”
Don't Act! Stop acting! and like phrases, are dumb and meaningless. Infact, I think they are damaging and are part of the contemporary predilection for degrading and disrespecting actors and acting. The inference is that acting is somehow shameful, a despicable habit that the actor...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “Do What Brings Out The Best In You”
We too often go with the flow. We too often do the thing that is pragmatic and practical and reasonable but which does not necessarily inspire us. Consequently, we sort of trudge through it, without joy, and our results are very often less than spectacular. We...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “Great Actors Love Personal Truth”
The inability, or unwillingness, to examine oneself and what one has done, is the sign of a deep sense of personal worthlessness. Truthful reflection is impossible because if what one finds is not to one's liking, then an existential catastrophe may ensue. In acting, this...
Read MoreDean Kavanagh Responds To Noirish Project
Dean Kavanagh is a filmmaker. His most recent work includes the internet mini-series "Late Hours of the Night". He also formed Easter Film Group, and is a member of Experimental Film Society. James, Finished "Noirish Project" and I loved it. You created a very distant and bizarre world. Something...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “10 Words To Describe Great Acting”
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({ google_ad_client: "ca-pub-3419632265420715", enable_page_level_ads: true }); The following words are common to all descriptions of great performances. Disciplined Precise Intense Kind Generous Forceful Strong Direct Simple and...
Read MoreGreat Actors On Acting | The Great Acting Blog
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Jean Gabin in Marcel Carne's Le Jour Se Leve[/caption] Insight, interest and inspiration...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “True Failure”
Chasing goals we don't care about is easy because it doesn't really matter whether we accomplish them or not. It's not scary because the potential for hurt should we fail, is absent. So we can continue to drift along, with the pressure off, making a...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “Overcoming Post-Holiday Strangeness – Motivate By Degrees”
The transition from the holiday period into the swing of work for the new year, can be very strange. We want to get back into our old routine, we want our workload to increase to normal levels and we want to return to our previous...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “An Acting Career Has Multiple Destinations”
An acting career is not about a moment, or a judgement. It's not about "making it" by a certain age. Our careers rarely unfold in the way that we thought they would. They rarely move along as quickly as we had hoped, our progress is rarely...
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