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The Great Acting Blog: “My Own Good Opinion”

20.10.2010 , The Great Acting Blog , 8 Comments

When 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 thrilled to be give... Read More

Drifting Clouds Cinema: “Orson Welles At 100”

18.05.2015 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 5 Comments

“Hollywood failure or successful independent filmmaker?” Terrific videoessay on the great actor-auteur, Orson Welles, a true inspiration. Read More

Distracted: Production Update!

30.01.2017 , Distracted , 2 Comments

Follow @Distractedfilm An intense, humbling and transformative shoot takes the production to around 50% completed. Intense because you fight to meet the demands the film makes upon you, humbling because you realise how much you don’t know, and transformative because you pass through the challenge... Read More

The Great Acting Blog: “Actors Need A Good Name”

24.04.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

“Build a good name — because a name is not to get famous. He wasn’t talking about celebrity — he was talking about let your name radiate your self, magnify who you are, your good deeds, your code of honor. Build your name and as you go... Read More

The Great Acting Blog: “Terry-Thomas Embodies The Qualities Of Great Acting”

23.02.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Growing up watching  old British movies on daytime television whenever I was off school ill, I became a big fan of Terry-Thomas. I always loved the daft comedy in films like Monte Carlo Or Bust and School For Scoundrels. So I was delighted when I... Read More

5 Great Actors Describe Great Acting

30.03.2019 , The Great Acting Blog , 20 Comments

  Isabelle Huppert, Michael Redgrave, Charles Laughton, Charlie Chaplin and Michel Piccoli – insight here from five of the greatest actors, each with a mighty body of work, and who reached [and continue to reach] a level of craft one can only aspire to. These... Read More

John Cleese On Creativity – A Review | The Great Acting Blog

04.10.2022 , The Great Acting Blog , 22 Comments

| Subscribe |   John Cleese’s book, Creativity, gives a fascinating insight into the creative process of one of the minds behind Monty Python and Fawlty Towers.  One of the joys of this book is that it can be read in such a short gallop... Read More

The Great Acting Blog: “Buster Keaton’s One Week”

11.01.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

By his own admission, Keaton did not think of himself as an actor, largely because back then an actor was somebody who worked in the theatre with dialogue. Keaton’s art of course, was primarily physical, spending his formative years in vaudeville, then later employing the cinema... Read More

Top 10 Glasses-Of-Water-In-Cinema

20.09.2016 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 27 Comments

Follow @Distractedfilm In no particular order. Airplane! (Jim Abrahams & David Zucker, 1980) Nominated by @liznorton88. Seconds (John Frankenheimer, 1960) Suggested by @barker11818. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini, 1963) @JHPCine suggested this one. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1979) Thanks to @SimonDale1965. Down Terrace (Ben Wheatley, 2009)... Read More

Acting In Experimental Film

12.10.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 76 Comments

My extensive article written for Experimental Conversations, about the acting techniques used in my collaboration with filmmaker, Rouzbeh Rashidi. Read More