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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

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 , 26 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

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

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 , 4 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

Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog: ‘Mike Leigh’s Golden Rules’

01.01.2016 , Uncategorized , 2 Comments

1. Never compromise. 2. Only ever accept final cut. 3. Only sign when it’s guaranteed that nobody will interfere at any stage. 4. Rule #3 includes casting. The moment someone insists on a “name”, walk away from the project. 5. Only cast actors you really... Read More