David Mamet’s writings on acting, film and theatre are always hugely insightful, and, more crucially, very practical. I extrapolated some key phrases containing technique and philosophy…. “Learn to ask: what does the character in the script want? What does he do to get it?...
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“On how Italian modernist Michelangelo Antonioni fashioned his first film, ‘Story of a Love Affair,’ after 1940s Hollywood noir” By Kevin B. Lee Or perhaps to put it another way, the marriage of neorealism with noir.
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“As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears.” — Rumi I love this quote from Rumi because it reminds me of the magic of the artistic life, which is that we get to continually re-invent what it is. Whenever we begin the next...
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A large part of our work in Cork took place in a empty office block, which had an endless number of rooms, some of them empty, some of them littered with old paperwork and decaying furniture. The whole place had a weird, eerie psycho-geography, ju...
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In last weeks post, I mentioned that I finally felt a sense of harmony between my acting and filmmaking activities, that I’d finally cast off the clumsiness which had hitherto accompanied my attempts to switch between the two roles. I had never suffered this clumsiness...
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“An audiovisual essay for Fandor exploring the idea of ambiguity in the films of Luchino Visconti. The accompanying notes can be found here.” By Pasquale Iannone.
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Follow @DistractedFilm As we move into the second half of production, I’ve put together a montage of scenes we’ve already worked on, which I hope will give you a feel for the film. We still have enough work to do, but I hope you like...
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How creativity and progression are linked. Creativity is about starting with a blank sheet of paper and discovering what might fill it. If we simply repeat what we have done before then it is simply not creativity. Creativity is a process of discovery, largely...
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“I cant stand intimate scenes in cinema....because every human being has an aura which is hard to penetrate. Professional actors imagine that it's part of their job to allow the director or other actors to penetrate their aura and enter into a tot...
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Follow Distracted For more Actors-Wearing-Hats-And-Stripes, you can check-out the full list of nominations here. This is my final selection of 10… RECENT TOP 10 LISTS Actors-In-Dressing-Rooms People-In-Cafes-Smoking...
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