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The Great Acting Blog: “Reality & Illusion”

28.09.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 12 Comments

All stills by Rouzbeh Rashidi The Homo Sapiens Project is an ongoing series of personal video works by Rouzbeh Rashidi, who asked me to contribute to the project by talking about myself on camera for 40 minutes (few actors need to be asked twice t... Read More

Top 10 Fictional Technology

04.02.2017 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 0 Comments

Follow @DistractedFilm Apologies for my dreadful slowness in posting this list, but the Distracted production has been somewhat dominating proceedings recently. Anyway, here it is. Each piece of technology has been selected for it’s intrinsic absurdity, and that of the film in which it features.... Read More

Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog: “Is Crowdfunding Destroying The Magic Of Cinema?”

03.12.2013 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 3 Comments

I would say Hal Hartley is among my top twenty heroes in cinema. As a viewer, his films are just what I want to see; intelligent, witty, insightful, literate, with precise visual compositions and gentle rythms. The comedy is often subversive with subtle irony, and... Read More

Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog: “Q & A With Sanna Peden On Aki Kaurismaki”

17.03.2014 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 0 Comments

Sanna Peden is currently Assistant Professor of European Studies at the University of Western Australia. Her key research interests are cinema, memory, nostalgia and place within the broad context of contemporary European identities. She has written extensively on the work of Aki Kaurismaki.  Her essays: “Aki... Read More

The Great Acting Blog “Michel Piccoli On His Work, Directors And How He Chooses Projects”

15.12.2018 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Originally published in The Guardian in May 2002   By Peter Lennon It is probably unwise to suggest to one of France’s leading film stars that actors are little more than marionettes. But Michel Piccoli, who has 170 films under his belt, is unperturbed. “In... Read More

FILM LIST: ‘Top 10 Cinema Spectacles’

28.05.2016 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 23 Comments

Follow @distractedfilm Cinema Spectacles was suggested by Whizzmop68 and we had a tremendous response, with some wonderful titles having to be left out. Spectacles, in cinema it seems, are primarily a tool for the absurd… In no particular order. Read More

Catherine Deneuve In The Hunger – Compassion And Acceptance

02.06.2015 , The Great Acting Blog , 18 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... Read More

Peter Mullan In My Name Is Joe – Acting Is Poetry | The Great Acting Blog

30.03.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 20 Comments

Once in a blue moon a performance comes along which is so excellent it forces me to completely re-examine what it is I'm doing in my own work, and Peter Mullan's in My Name Is Joe is one such performance. Mullan plays Joe Kavanagh, a recovering al... Read More

Dreamer In A Dream – Delphine Seyrig In Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman

10.04.2020 , The Great Acting Blog , 25 Comments

“there is nothing so interesting on stage as a man trying to get a knot out of his shoelaces.” - Bertolt Brecht Chantal Akerman's “Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles” is a three and a half hour masterpiece about the meticulous dom... Read More

Actor As Artist: Béatrice Dalle | The Great Acting Blog

02.02.2022 , The Great Acting Blog , 24 Comments

When an actor is an artist – Béatrice Dalle is our example here.   “I’ve done 75 films and they’re all super … because I’ve always worked with auteurs.” … Are you rich? … “Hell, no. I don’t have a car, I don’t own my... Read More