Being independent has nothing whatever to do with money, or lack thereof. It has got nothing to do with the means of production. Independence is about how you think. We're currently seeing the proliferation of filmmakers who describe themselves as...
Read MoreWhenever I read a new script for the first time, I try to do so objectively, without paying special attention to the scenes in which my character appears, but treating all parts equally. I do this because it is important to get a sense of...
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‎"I want the public to realize that above all I am an actor, a very professional one who loves every minute of being in front of the camera. But one who becomes very miserable the instant the director shouts, 'Cut!'" Alain Delon delivered great pe...
Read MoreWhen I started out as an actor, I accepted any part in any production that came my way. I didn't think too deeply about the production or who was producing it or the quality of the work or what it might accomplish, I was simply...
Read MoreThis week I watched Down Terrace, a brilliant film a about a crime family who live in a nondescript terraced house in order to masque their ill-gotten gains, and who spend most of the film receiving visitors there in an effort to find out who...
Read MoreRecently, and by coincidence, I have seen three of John Hurt's major performances: As Krapp in the film version of Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, as icy hitman Braddock in Stephen Frear's 80s film noir The Hit, and as the bigotted Old Man Pea...
Read MoreWatching Michael Lindsay-Hogg's production of Waiting For Godot, made as part of Beckett On Film, I finally came to realize the play's true power and why it's held up as a masterwork of 20th century drama. I once read it and found it tedious, and...
Read MorePer Oscarsson's performance in Henning Carlsen's Sult is one of the greatest performances in all cinema and a brilliant example of an actor expressing the unfathomable complexity of one man's state of being by performing simple actions scene by sc...
Read MoreWhen an actor's performance is dull and plodding, it is usually because the actor is trying to supply a predetermined effect ( this may manifest itself as line readings [we've all heard the gag of the actor struggling to workout which word to stre...
Read More“"It's the cinema I want to see. These are the films I am growing from seed. If we're talking about things like I Am Love, and the work I make with Luca or the work I make with Lynn Hershman, or even the work with...
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