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The Great Acting Blog: “The Acting In Fassbinder’s Fear Of Fear”

27.12.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 45 Comments

Fassbinder's Fear Of Fear is a quite brilliant tale about Margot, whose harmonious family life with husband Kurt and daughter Bibi, unravels as she begins to suffer from anxiety attacks leading to alcoholism, an illicit affair, and a spell in a me...

The Great Acting Blog: “My 5 Favourite Performances Of 2012”

19.12.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 2 Comments

Irene Jacob in The Dust Of Time (Theo Angelopoulos) An epic performance by Jacob, in a film which spans decades. She not only manages the shift in age without fuss, but she also delivers a performance of astonishing sensitivity but which is neithe...

Kati Outinen On Aki Kaurismaki – Actors’ Creativity | The Great Acting Blog

12.12.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 3,179 Comments

Kati Outinen is probably best known for her work with Finnish filmmaker, Aki Kaurismaki, having appeared in many, many of his films, including Match Factory Girl, Take Care Of Your Scarf Tatiana, and most recently, Le Havre. For those unfamiliar w...

The Great Acting Blog: “Strive To Be Great”

21.11.2012 , Uncategorized , 2 Comments

A forthcoming Daniel Day-Lewis performance is always turned into a huge event by the media - we were told his turn in PT Anderson's There Will Be Blood was the performance to define cinematic acting for all time. Then there is the psychophantic re...

The Great Acting Blog: “Non-Actors, Employee-Actors, & Artist-Actors”

14.11.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 4 Comments

“with professional actors they have an imaginary in between you and them. In other words they have some model in their minds about how to act, or how someone did it before, or some techniques, visual or physical, they can use...

The Great Acting Blog: “Mindboggling – Tony Curtis in The Boston Strangler”

19.09.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 20 Comments

Tony Curtis plays Albert DeSalvo, who is picked up by the cops on a breaking and entering charge, but when the judge rules Albert is not of his right mind, he is institutionalised where psychiatrists diagnose him with a multiple personality disord...

The Great Acting Blog: “Exquisite – Tony Curtis In Monte Carlo Or Bust!”

05.09.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 117 Comments

Monte Carlo Or Bust is a wonderful, light ,fluffy affair, and contains an ensemble cast which includes the delights of the likes of Terry-Thomas, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. It's about an international car rally, where the drivers must reach cert...

The Future Of Acting | The Great Acting Blog

18.07.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 174 Comments

“we have to be optimistic. The moment actors start thinking otherwise, they're dead. You simply have to believe you have a future.” - Peter O'Toole. Peter O'Toole is a god of acting, he is a great actor, his performance in Becket is one of my...

The Great Acting Blog: “Actors Need To Reclaim Acting – Lessons From EA Dupont’s Piccadilly”

11.07.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 19 Comments

EA Dupont's silent era masterpiece, Piccadilly, is set in a fashionable London nightclub, and is about an exotic dancer, played by Anna May Wong, whose routines lead to her becoming the toast of Jazz-Age London. She also becomes the erotic obssesi...

The Great Acting Blog: “Authenticity”

04.07.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 16 Comments

A few weeks ago I watched Milos Forman's debut, Audition. An early example of the Czech New Wave, shot in 16mm, the film is essentially a faux-documentary split in two parts; the first centres on the rehearsals of a group of amateur musicians prep...

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