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...
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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 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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The Performance In Your Mind Is Nothing | The Great Acting Blog
The performance in your head is nothing - what actually took place is the actual performance. It’s not real - the director, the editor, the other actors, the final audience, cannot see what is inside your mind. They respond to what they see on screen or...
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Performance Is Personality – Anna Magnani In Bellissima | The Great Acting Blog
Anna Magnani uses the full breadth and force of her personality in Luchino Visconti's Bellissima. An actor's personality is their performance. Range does not exist. Anna Magnani was known as “the volcanic mother of all Italian Cinema” and this is almost literally true in Luchino Visconti's...
Read MoreMifune: The Last Samurai – Brief Notes
- Mifune embodied steadfastness, integrity and samurai spirit. - You have to root for the one who is outnumbered by the enemy but stands up to them anyway. - The Ronin acts out his rage and frustration, knowing that in the end it’s hopeless. He knows that...
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The Ennobling Quality Of Jeanne Moreau In Lift To The Scaffold
|Subscribe To The Great Acting Blog| Orson Welles described Jeanne Moreau as the greatest actor in the world. Quite a recommendation. Here I examine Moreau's performance in Louis Malle's Lift To The Scaffold, and try to articulate what makes her such an essential actor. By the time...
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