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The Great Acting Blog: “Make Choices You Enjoy – John Malkovich In Colour Me Kubrick”

18.04.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 46 Comments

Malkovich is one of those American actors who is regarded as a real actor, which is to say, he actually can act, he's an artist, he's in it because he wants to be a great actor, or make a great contribution, he's certainly an actor...

The Great Acting Blog: “Actor As Artist – Makiko Esumi In Hirokazu Koreeda’s Maborosi”

11.04.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 4 Comments

I was completely stunned this week when I saw an astonishing masterpiece by Japanese auteur, Hirokazu Koreeda, called Maborosi. The film centres on Yumiko and Tamio,a couple who seem to live in a quiet marital happiness, until tragedy strikes when...

The Great Acting Blog: “A Response To Otar Iosseliani’s Comments On Actors’ Aura”

04.04.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 30 Comments

“I cant stand intimate scenes in cinema...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Shy Poetry Of Irene Jacob”

21.03.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 48 Comments

I suppose Irene Jacob will always be inextricably linked with Krzysztof Kieslowski, and the two masterpieces she made with him: The Double Life Of Veronique (for which she won the best actress award at Cannes), and Three Colours: Red, which made h...

The Great Acting Blog: “A Beautiful Object”

14.03.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 2 Comments

“I get impatient when I hear dialogue that's just too natural. I write what people would really say and then I artificialize just enough so it becomes a beautiful object”. - Hal Hartley For anyone not familiar with Hartley's work, the dialogue is ...

Alain Delon On Jean-Pierre Melville And Le Samourai – An Example | The Great Acting Blog

07.03.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 84 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,...

The Great Acting Blog: “Boredom Of The Disgust & Monotony Of The Tediousness – Part 1”

22.02.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 3,951 Comments

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 ...

Creative Impulse, Acting And Ambivalence | The Great Acting Blog

11.01.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 2,411 Comments

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...

Gerard Depardieu In Under The Sun Of Satan | The Great Acting Blog

04.01.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 43 Comments

Gerard Depardieu plays Dossignan, a rural priest engaged in an intense spiritual struggle, a struggle so demanding it regularly brings Depardieu to ill health, one feels even worse might befall him if he didn't have his Dean, Menou-Segrais (played...

The Great Acting Blog: “5 Best Performances In Films I Happened To See In 2011”

28.12.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

Here are my 5 selections for this year. I based them on the fact that they piqued me in an unusual way, asked me to re-examine my own work, or I saw something in them that I loved, and wanted to define. I have excluded...

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