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Distracted Update: Principal Photography Is Now Complete…

17.06.2017 , Distracted , 1 Comment

Follow @Distractedfilm …and so, after nine months, we have reached the end of what has been an extremely demanding and creatively exhilarating process. Cinema exists at that point where the imaginary and the real meet, both are transformed at the point of contact, and something... Read More

Jesse Richards On Closure Of Catharsis

28.03.2011 , Uncategorized , 94 Comments

Filmmaker and artist, Jesse Richards, offers the first critical response to Closure Of Catharsis. "First of all I’d like to note that I am not a critic in ANY sense, but I have been so inspired by this film by Rouzbeh Rashidi that I feel compelled... Read More

Visconti And Delon: Collaboration – Why Did It Work?

01.09.2024 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 1 Comment

Originally posted as the thread The Cinematic Alchemy of Luchino Visconti and Alain Delon…..   Artistic Vision: Both Visconti and Delon shared a deep appreciation for cinema as an art form. Visconti’s sophisticated and often operatic approach to filmmaking resonated with Delon’s desire to be... Read More

Distracted – March Production Update!

29.03.2017 , Distracted , 1 Comment

Follow @Distractedfilm Another intense shoot saw the great Nadine Hanwell join the cast as ‘Mrs Hopkins’, and our detectives mull over evidence via a beautiful, old, Fidelity reel-to-reel recorder in their attempts to find the murderer. Distracted’s paradoxical, strange and familiar atmosphere takes shape. We’re... Read More

Alain Delon On Jean-Pierre Melville And Le Samourai – An Example | The Great Acting Blog

07.03.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 79 Comments

Please watch this 4 minute interview with Alain Delon, which this blog is a response to. Alain Delon is speaking the truth. How do we know? Because he does not try to sell what he is saying to us, he does not narrate his emotions, he does not indi... Read More

The Great Acting Blog: “The Many Deaths Of John Hurt”

01.03.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 5 Comments

I clicked on the link for “The Many Deaths of John Hurt”, expecting a fun couple of minutes watching Hurt expire in a number of his films, but ended up being struck by the resonance of a great actor’s life. The clips seem capture the... Read More

4 Ways To Maintain Your Artistic Energy | The Great Acting Blog

12.08.2018 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Only Do That Which Inspires Commitment And Purpose In You Because this means we’re doing what we really want to do, we’re doing what’s meaningful to us, and we feel strong. Alternatively, we function much less effectively when we undertake work that does not inspire us.... Read More

The Great Acting Blog: “Performance Without Rehearsal”

17.02.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 14 Comments

As I noted in the previous blog, there were no speeches or dialogues to motor my performance because all of that work had been completed in Dublin. In Cork, I only had my face and body and pure physical actions to express myself with. As always wh... Read More

The Great Acting Blog: “Follow Your Heart Not What You Think People Want”

17.04.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

“What the public criticise in you, cultivate. It is you.” – Jean Cocteau The problem with striving to please others, is that it creates a tendency to erase that which makes each actor interesting, namely his individuality, or, put another way, his art. When trying... Read More

The Great Acting Blog: “Actors Deliver The Extraordinary”

23.06.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

“I don’t invent anything. I imagine everything… most of the time, I have drawn my images from the daily life around me. I think that it is by capturing reality in the humblest, most sincere, most everyday way I can, that I can penetrate to... Read More