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The Great Acting Blog: “First Response”

09.02.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 41 Comments

Check out this promo clip from Closure Of Catharsis, a new feature film by Rouzbeh Rashidi. Generally, seeing myself on screen has little or no affect on me. Many actors say they hate seeing themselves act, and some pretend to be indifferent. Othe...

The Great Acting Blog: “Actor-Filmmakers”

02.02.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

After hearing that Paddy Considine's directorial debut, Tyrannosaur, won a couple of prizes at the recent Sundance Film Festival (a Special Jury Prize for acting, and the World Cinema Directing Award, Dramatic), I was reminded of the sheer number ...

The Great Acting Blog: “Drifting Clouds”

26.01.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Check out the video, it's the trailer for (An)Other Irish Cinema. I've long been skeptical of the notion that the actor should not have control over his work and his life. I hold the opinion that the actor is an artist in the same way...

The Great Acting Blog: “Gobbledegook?”

19.01.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

“But I think actors are always having to achieve the problem before they can express overcoming the problem” - Colin Firth. I like Colin Firth, he's alright. I've been a fan of his since I first noticed his work in The English Patient back in...

The Great Acting Blog: “Their Law Trailer Shoot”

12.01.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

This week, I shot my scene for the trailer of Their Law, a tightly scripted crime-thriller feature film being produced by Sean J Vincent and Andre Renner, about deception and corruption within the underworld and the government. It's a zero sum gam...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Context And It’s Work”

05.01.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

An actor should always allow the context within which the scene takes place to do it's work, that is, he need only play the actions asked of him by that particular scene, and need not worry about what has taken place in preceding scenes. One...

Michel Piccoli In Cahiers Du Cinema

01.01.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 3 Comments

Last week I published a post which attempted to understand the nature of Michel Piccoli's talent, and, to a certain extent, that post was successful. However, I still felt that I hadn't really done justice to Piccoli and have decided, in an effort to make...

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The Great Acting Blog: “First Response”

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The Great Acting Blog: “The Context And It’s Work”

Michel Piccoli In Cahiers Du Cinema

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