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5 Must-See Screen Performances | The Great Acting Blog

07.12.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 16 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...

The Great Acting Blog: “Actor-Filmmakers”

02.02.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

After hearing that Paddy Considine's directorial debut, Tyrannosaur, won a couple of prizes at the recent Sundance Film Festival (a Special Jury Prize for acting, and the World Cinema Directing Award, Dramatic), I was reminded of the sheer number ...

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