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The Great Acting Blog: “The Piccoli Strategy”

17.12.2018 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

"the only thing that is important is to work with directors of talent" - Michel Piccoli Michel Piccoli is one of the greatest actors of all time. His body of work is remarkable. It starts in 1949 and continues until today, and includes over 200 films. He has...

The Great Acting Blog “Michel Piccoli On His Work, Directors And How He Chooses Projects”

15.12.2018 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="805"] Michel Piccoli with Manoel de Oliveira[/caption] Originally published in The Guardian in May 2002 By Peter Lennon It is probably unwise to suggest to one of France's leading film stars that actors are little more than marionettes. But Michel Piccoli, who has 170 films...

The Great Acting Blog: “An Evocative Performance”

19.02.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 24 Comments

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...

The Great Acting Blog: “Five Great Actors On Acting”

09.11.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

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...

The Great Acting Blog: “Life Through The Dramatic Prism”

23.05.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

"There are musicians who practice all the time but we actors are not able to do that. We don't have an instrument, except if you say we are our own instrument, and yet I always try to continue searching and working for the moment where...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Context And It’s Work”

05.01.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

An actor should always allow the context within which the scene takes place to do it's work, that is, he need only play the actions asked of him by that particular scene, and need not worry about what has taken place in preceding scenes. One...

Michel Piccoli In Cahiers Du Cinema

01.01.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 3 Comments

Last week I published a post which attempted to understand the nature of Michel Piccoli's talent, and, to a certain extent, that post was successful. However, I still felt that I hadn't really done justice to Piccoli and have decided, in an effort to make...

The Discreet Madness Of Michel Piccoli | The Great Acting Blog

29.12.2010 , The Great Acting Blog , 51 Comments

“There are musicians who practice all the time but we actors are not able to do that. We don't have an instrument, except if you say we are our own instrument, and yet I always try to continue searching and working for the moment where...

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