Performance is the artistic expression of the actor's individuality, as exemplified by Cary Grant. Cary Grant was criticised for being a "conservative actor" - there was a feeling among critics that his work stayed within the light-comedic persona that had made him so fantastically popular, rarely...
Read More[caption id="attachment_175665685" align="aligncenter" width="682"] Catherine Deneuve in The Truth.[/caption] Jimmy Stewart once said that he would quit acting when he no longer liked himself on screen. I thought this was a pretty good rule to go by and so I adopted it for myself. I also...
Read More“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 Morehttps://vimeo.com/74585515 I want the audience to have a peaceful, poetic experience when watching Noirish Project. The film rejects the bombast of so much contemporary cinema, the bombast of content and style, the bombast that seeks to control what we think. I don't want the film to...
Read MoreCatherine 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 the...
Read MoreOver the last 10 years or so, I've been lucky enough to see many of my favourite films projected on to the big screen, largely due to various retrospectives. As would be expected, the big screen significantly enriches our experience of a film, although it...
Read More"No matter how good a phrase or a simile he may have if he puts it in where it is not absolutely necessary and irreplaceable he is spoiling his work for egotism" - Ernest Hemingway Hemingway on writing there. But the words could just as easily...
Read MoreWhen we're first starting out, we're mostly happy just to be given a chance to exercise our craft. Doesn't really matter what the work is or who it's for so long as we get the chance. We are extremely accommodating too, because we're just relieved to know...
Read MoreDoing research, I am struck by how, over the last couple of generations or so, so few actors offer insights about acting. Most of the great statements and key texts on acting have come from directors and playwrights and teachers. There is Simon Callow of...
Read MoreIn a recent post on his blog, film producer Ted Hope talks about how we make far more films than we watch. He disagrees though, that there are too many films being made, he says simply that there is an abundance and the problem for...
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