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The Joyful Collaborator – Cary Grant | The Great Acting Blog

18.01.2016 , The Great Acting Blog , 30 Comments

Subscribe | @GreatActingBlog [caption id="attachment_175659777" align="aligncenter" width="540"] Cary Grant with Katharine Hepburn[/caption] "Everybody would like to be Cary Grant. So would I." - Cary Grant My earliest memory of Cary Grant is in Hitchcock's wonderful and underrated To Catch A Thief, where he played reformed jewel thief, John...

A Lesson From Catherine Deneuve In Belle De Jour – Accentuate Your Individuality

30.08.2015 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Subscribe | @GreatActingBlog [caption id="attachment_175659579" align="aligncenter" width="504"] Catherine Deneuve in Luis Bunuel's Belle De Jour.[/caption] All art is truth. Something cannot be art if it doesn't ring with truth. And the truth is usually provocative, usually uncomfortable - that's why we rarely like facing up to it. The...

The Great Acting Blog: “Pressures And Distractions?”

24.08.2015 , The Great Acting Blog , 11 Comments

[caption id="attachment_175659470" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] On the set of Marcel Carne's Les Enfants De Paradis, 1945.[/caption] Marcel Carne's 1945 film, Les Enfants Du Paradis, is set in the Parisien theatre of the 1840s, a world teeming with "hucksters and aristocrats, thieves and courtesans, pimps and seers". It's an...

The Great Acting Blog: “Contentment Is A Prison”

21.06.2015 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

Once, however, the goal has been accomplished, the structure we created becomes a prison, locking us into a certain loop of thought, clamping us to the new status quo, so much so that we cannot move on to the next thing. Our progress stalls, we...

Marcello Mastroianni In Divorce Italian Style | The Great Acting Blog

14.06.2015 , The Great Acting Blog , 36 Comments

[caption id="attachment_175664582" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Marcello Mastroianni in Divorce Italian Style.[/caption] Marcello Mastroianni plays Baron Ferdinando Cefalu, a nobleman living an idle life "filled with longing and nostalgia". In public, he is respectable and reserved, a model of self-control. Privately however, he is desperate to escape his...

The Great Acting Blog: “A Miraculous Transformation”

13.06.2015 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

http://youtu.be/uN4Di8DEPf8 See Frederic March's miraculous transformation from Dr Jekyll to Mr Hyde, in Rouben Mamoulian's 1931 film...

Catherine Deneuve In The Hunger – Compassion And Acceptance

02.06.2015 , The Great Acting Blog , 28 Comments

Catherine Deneuve plays Miriam Blaylock, a centuries old vampire in the classical tradition. She lives elegantly in an elaborate townhouse with John (played by David Bowie), her partner of the last couple of hundred years or so. They spend their afternoons performing Shubert in the...

Passion In Art – Robert De Niro | The Great Acting Blog

26.05.2015 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Robert De Niro is a great artist. He's spent his career delivering performances of power and truth, creating one of the most extraordinary bodies of work of all time. And like all great artists, he helps us to make sense of our own experiences. His...

The Great Acting Blog: “Greta Garbo’s Eyes”

17.04.2015 , The Great Acting Blog , 18 Comments

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Gena Rowlands Montage

27.02.2015 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog, The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

https://vimeo.com/116102999 Check-out this neat montage of strong moments from some of Gena Rowlands' best screen performances. She provides a few thoughts on acting here too. Overall, we are reminded of how Rowlands created a string of performances of immense power. She was not frightened of confronting deep...

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