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The Great Acting Blog: “Improvising”

23.01.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Check out this quick teaser I put together. We've still some work to do on the sound, but the film will be completed in the next week or so. I had planned to shoot Noirish Project in two chunks: the first last week, and the second later in the yea... Read More

Artistic Drive – The Cary Grant Paradox | The Great Acting Blog

10.03.2021 , The Great Acting Blog , 37 Comments

Artistic drive is essential if we are to achieve all that we need to – this post looks at the experience of Cary Grant in order to find it’s key.   Cary Grant was actually born as Archie Leach – a poor, crummy kid in... Read More

The Great Acting Blog: “Rewarding & Enrichiching – Being An Individual Creative Artist”

25.04.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 13 Comments

Check out this clip, where Mickey, a businessman, verbally dismantles a competitor (contains rude words). In 2008, I wrote my first, and, as yet, my last one man play, called The Call. It was about a businessman, called Mickey, who, upon learning ... Read More

Top 10 Cinema Bicycles

28.11.2016 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 28 Comments

Follow @DistractedFilm Thanks again to all who took the time to suggest titles. Notable exclusions included Un Chien Andalou, Band Of Outsiders & Mon Oncle. Bicycles in cinema, it would seem, are joyous. They represent freedom and innocence, something good. Their destruction is something to... Read More

The Great Acting Blog: “Get It Up, Get It On, Get It Out To The Audience”

25.10.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

I spoke to Esme Hicks, assistant director at the Jermyn Street Theatre, about their forthcoming production of The Potsdam Quartet. TGAB: Tell us some general background on the play and what you’re doing…. ESME HICKS: It’s set in July 1945 at the Potsdam Conference, its just... Read More

Filmmakers-In-Libraries | Top 10 Film List

10.04.2020 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 22 Comments

Subscribe | @Distractedfilm                           RECENT LISTS Happy Happy Happy Cinema Actors-At-Windows Actors-At-The-Eiffel Tower Champagne Cinema Kino Kimono Read More

Singlemindedf**koffedness

29.09.2010 , Uncategorized , 3 Comments

via youtube.com The video is Jack Nicholson as Jimmy Hoffa laying down the law to Robert Kennedy. Most people wake-up in the morning and go to work and repeat this cycle over the course of the month and are guaranteed payment for that work at the ... Read More

Top 10 Bravura Bow-Ties

02.11.2019 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 26 Comments

Distracted | @Distractedfilm                     LATEST LISTS Cinema Ha Ha Ha Hands-In-Cinema Shady Filmmakers Cinema Scooters Frames-Within-Frames Read More

Top 10 Criminal Cinema Couples

14.12.2016 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 15 Comments

Follow @DistractedFilm One of the main joys of creating these lists is discovering new titles, and that has certainly been true this time, and especially true of The Honeymoon Killers – a film whose irony is so brutal it’s actually quite beautiful. Criminal Cinema Couples... Read More

The Great Acting Blog: “When Should You Quit?”

11.02.2019 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

We understand what happens to us in relation to what we want. The actor who commits the rest of his life to his work, the one who says “I’m never going to stop”,  reacts differently to the inevitable stresses and strains to the one who... Read More