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The Great Acting Blog: “Self Direction, First Principles”

15.06.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

“no matter how good a phrase or a simile he may have, if he [the writer] puts it in where it is not absolutely necessary and irreplaceable he is spoiling his work for egotism.” Ernest Hemingway, Death In The Afternoon. This week, I broke one...

The Great Acting Blog: “DIY Part 2”

08.06.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Delighted to share "Man Crossing Street" with you, a no wave short film about the individual amid the turbulence of the city. So often the actor must make compromises in his work because he is dealing with directors, other actors, writers etc, and...

Charlotte Rampling’s Example | The Great Acting

01.06.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 91 Comments

“ I could have been a superstar in America – I was certainly taken out there. But I said, “no way Jose, I'm not staying here in this madhouse”. So I left and said, “I'm gonna make arthouse films now”. - Charlotte Rampling. Whether you...

The Great Acting Blog: “DIY – Part 1”

25.05.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 2 Comments

This week, and by a curious chain of events, I ended up editing my new short film, Man Crossing Street, myself. Now, I hate computers and I know almost nothing about editing, so this was a decent little challenge for me, and so using the...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Ventura Conundrum”

11.05.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 26 Comments

"I learnt how to act by watching movies, sometimes up to six a day" - Lino VenturaI first became aware of Lino Ventura when I watched Jean-Pierre Melville's French Resistance masterpiece, L'Armee Des Ombres (Army Of Shadows), where he played a tou...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Objective”

04.05.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

“There are musicians who practice all the time but we actors are not able to do that. We don't have an instrument, except if you say we are our own instrument, and yet I always try to continue searching and working for the moment where...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Audition – A Short Script – Part 3”

27.04.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 20 Comments

INTERVIEWER That's ok, don't worry, we got it. So, y'know, in your own time, take it from the top please - great face. Silence as Tony prepares himself...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Audition – A Short Script – Part 2

27.04.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

THE AUDITION A room. INTERVIEWER Hi Tony. TONY Hi. INTERVIEWER Thanks for coming in. TONY No problem. INTERVIEWER Please, take a seat. TONY (enters frame by sitting) Thanks. INTERVIEWER So, you got my email. TONY (showing some pages) Yes, thanks. ...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Audition – A Short Script – Part 1”

27.04.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 3 Comments

This week, I decided to do something different and publish a short film script I wrote. Why? Well largely because the script deals with something I've been wanting to write about, namely, how an actor can participate in his own downfall by being t...

The Great Acting Blog: “Questions, Questions, Questions….”

20.04.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 23 Comments

One of the most demanding aspects of an actor's life is the constant need to improve, year by year, month by month, day by day, moment by moment. There is no let up – when one set of questions has been answered, a new set...

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