The Great Acting Blog: “A Response To Otar Iosseliani’s Comments On Actors’ Aura”
“I cant stand intimate scenes in cinema...
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The Great Acting Blog: “The Independent Actor”
Donald Wolfitt made a name for himself at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in 1936 as Hamlet, and he tried to persuade the management to bankroll him on a tour of the provinces. They declined the invitation, so he withdrew his savings and started ...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “The Shy Poetry Of Irene Jacob”
I suppose Irene Jacob will always be inextricably linked with Krzysztof Kieslowski, and the two masterpieces she made with him: The Double Life Of Veronique (for which she won the best actress award at Cannes), and Three Colours: Red, which made h...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “A Beautiful Object”
“I get impatient when I hear dialogue that's just too natural. I write what people would really say and then I artificialize just enough so it becomes a beautiful object”. - Hal Hartley For anyone not familiar with Hartley's work, the dialogue is ...
Read MoreAlain Delon On Jean-Pierre Melville And Le Samourai – An Example | The Great Acting Blog
Please watch this 4 minute interview with Alain Delon, which this blog is a response to. Alain Delon is speaking the truth. How do we know? Because he does not try to sell what he is saying to us, he does not narrate his emotions,...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “A True Actor-Director Collaboration”
Boredom Of The Disgust & Monotony Of The Tediousness, is a film made up of a series of scenes but there is no through-action – they are linked because each of them is about cinema itself. The film has documentary scenes (as discussed in Part...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “The Paradox Of Acting – Boredom Of The Disgust And Monotony Of The Tediousness” – Part 2″
Check out the trailer for our new feature film, part video essay, part fiction. Having completed the documentary scenes for the film, we moved on to the fictional scenes. First up, I was to have an argument with somebody who wasn't in the room, bu...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “Boredom Of The Disgust & Monotony Of The Tediousness – Part 1”
As I arrived in Cork, the ever prolific and hardworking Rouzbeh Rashidi informed me that in addition to HE, we were to shoot some scenes for another feature film he was putting together (in collaboration with Maximilian Le Cain), and he did so in ...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “With And Without Object”
A large part of our work in Cork took place in a empty office block, which had an endless number of rooms, some of them empty, some of them littered with old paperwork and decaying furniture. The whole place had a weird, eerie psycho-geography, ju...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “Performance Without Rehearsal”
As I noted in the previous blog, there were no speeches or dialogues to motor my performance because all of that work had been completed in Dublin. In Cork, I only had my face and body and pure physical actions to express myself with. As...
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