My Name Is Joe Tag

5 Must-See Screen Performances | The Great Acting Blog

07.12.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 2 Comments

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1278"] *Per Oscarsson in Sult [Hunger].[/caption] I chose this five because I believe that watching them invites us to question our self-imposed limitations of what acting can be, and inspire us to re-draw those limitations. Each performance shows that, through acting, we can...

The Great Acting Blog: “Crissy Rock In Ken Loach’s Ladybird Ladybird

31.08.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 21 Comments

"Drama games wear very thin and an intelligent actor will soon resent being treated like a child" - Peter Brook In Ladybird Ladybird, Crissy Rock plays Maggie Conlon, a woman who has had four children by four different fathers. One evening, Rock l...

Peter Mullan In My Name Is Joe – Acting Is Poetry | The Great Acting Blog

30.03.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 30 Comments

Once in a blue moon a performance comes along which is so excellent it forces me to completely re-examine what it is I'm doing in my own work, and Peter Mullan's in My Name Is Joe is one such performance. Mullan plays Joe Kavanagh, a...