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The Great Acting Blog: “Anyone Can Act In The Same Way Anyone Can Write A Poem”

15.02.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

“Study voice and movement – learn the difference between the beautiful and the attractive. Learn to analyze a script the way a director should and almost none can…Make yourself the expert…Your friends will tell you you are making yourself foolish ...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Creative Process by Alfie Black”

06.02.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Noirish Project was always going to be a different experience for me. This is my third film Collaboration with writer/director James Devereaux. For me, having the back story prepared for my role is always a necessity. It is this part of the creati...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Short Film Before The Feature Film”

Prelude is now complete, and I am delighted to be sharing the film with you here. Some of you will already know that this is the short film we made when work on our feature film,Noirish Project, was snowed off. Noirish Project is a noir...

The Great Acting Blog: “Improvising”

23.01.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Check out this quick teaser I put together. We've still some work to do on the sound, but the film will be completed in the next week or so. I had planned to shoot Noirish Project in two chunks: the first last week, and the...

The Great Acting Blog: “Noirish Project Rehearsals”

16.01.2013 , Noirish Project, The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Billy: What if he, y'know, tries to glass us or something? Jimmy: Glass us? Dickie? Dickie wouldn't glass us. You don't know him. He's actually a really nice guy. Billy: I thought you said he was dangerous. Jimmy: I said he was POTENTIALLY dangero...

The Great Acting Blog: “Noirish Project Swings Into Motion”

09.01.2013 , Noirish Project, The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Rehearsals for Noirish Project have begun. The film itself is a slice neo-realism masquerading as a film noir: Billy robs some precious pearls from his own family, and gives them to local scheister, Jimmy, to off-load to the local fence. The troub...

The Great Acting Blog: “Robert De Niro Notes”

02.01.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

De Niro offers practical advice here, which means alot coming from an actor of his stature, and especially him I suppose, because so much theoretical voodoo has grown up around his work, in order to explain away his performances - the truth is, ac...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Acting In Fassbinder’s Fear Of Fear”

27.12.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Fassbinder's Fear Of Fear is a quite brilliant tale about Margot, whose harmonious family life with husband Kurt and daughter Bibi, unravels as she begins to suffer from anxiety attacks leading to alcoholism, an illicit affair, and a spell in a me...

The Great Acting Blog: “My 5 Favourite Performances Of 2012”

19.12.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Irene Jacob in The Dust Of Time (Theo Angelopoulos) An epic performance by Jacob, in a film which spans decades. She not only manages the shift in age without fuss, but she also delivers a performance of astonishing sensitivity but which is neithe...

Kati Outinen On Aki Kaurismaki – Actors’ Creativity | The Great Acting Blog

12.12.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Kati Outinen is probably best known for her work with Finnish filmmaker, Aki Kaurismaki, having appeared in many, many of his films, including Match Factory Girl, Take Care Of Your Scarf Tatiana, and most recently, Le Havre. For those unfamiliar w...

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