Visconti And Delon: Collaboration – Why Did It Work?
Originally posted as the thread The Cinematic Alchemy of Luchino Visconti and Alain Delon...
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Alain Delon, The Spring Samurai – 8th November 1935 – 18th August 2024
[caption id="attachment_175666914" align="alignnone" width="1200"] Delon in Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samourai[/caption] RIP Alain Delon, The Spring Samurai a true cinema artist, a master, and a rare actor who defined an entire aesthetic. Thank-you for lighting the way....
Read MoreDrifting Clouds: “Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve & Jean-Pierre Melville on Un Flic”
[caption id="attachment_175659650" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Alain Delon with Catherine Deneuve and Jean-Pierre Melville, on the set of Un Flic. [/caption] Happy 80th birthday Alain Delon. Alain Delon is a similar kind of actor to Catherine Deneuve, in that both favour precision & economy. Naturally, both worked with Melville. RELATED The...
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Creating Cinema Culture – A Context For My Films
I wrote this piece in 2015, to explain the culture I wanted to create around my then upcoming feature film, Distracted. However, it's now 2021, as I put together my next production, Composure, the same cinema culture holds true. This idea of 'creating cinema culture'...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “An Evocative Performance”
Claire Denis' Bastards is a fragmented, neo-noir about money, sex and revenge. At the heart of the film is Vincent Lindon, playing Marco, a seaman who is called to Paris because his sister is facing bankruptcy after her husband's death. Lindon is drawn into a...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “Five Great Actors On Acting”
These quotes don't offer any easy inspiration but there is a truth in them, even if that truth is sometimes opaque or requires thinking about over time. What they allow us to infer is important, for example, Delon appears to be saying something personal, and...
Read MoreAlain Delon On Jean-Pierre Melville And Le Samourai – An Example | The Great Acting Blog
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,...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “Boredom Of The Disgust & Monotony Of The Tediousness – Part 1”
As I arrived in Cork, the ever prolific and hardworking Rouzbeh Rashidi informed me that in addition to HE, we were to shoot some scenes for another feature film he was putting together (in collaboration with Maximilian Le Cain), and he did so in ...
Read MoreCreative Impulse, Acting And Ambivalence | The Great Acting Blog
In Marco Ferreri's Tales Of Ordinary Madness, Ben Gazzara plays Charles Serking, an incarnation of Charles Bukowski, upon whose work and life the film is based. Those already familiar with Bukowski, will not be surprised to learn that Gazzara spen...
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