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'Celebrating one of cinema's most unique anti-heroes on TAXI DRIVER's 40th anniversary year. A video essay by Jacob T. Swinney.
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Robert De Niro is a great artist. He's spent his career delivering performances of power and truth, creating one of the most extraordinary bodies of work of all time. And like all great artists, he helps us to make sense of our own experiences. His...
Some of these are sweetly naive, and their bluntness renders them somewhat absurd, but nonetheless they offer a fascinating distillation of the actors themselves.
The trade-marks are as much to do with the actor's own nature and what they bring to each role, as they are...
Chuck Bowen, in a recent piece in Keyframe Daily, said that Leonardo Di Caprio, despite his strivings in recent years, was someone "auditioning for the role of Great Actor", he was "not quite" there. Although I haven't seen The Wolf Of Wall Street yet, I...
His myth was created during that run of films with Martin Scorsese in the 1970s, and augmented by Godfather Part II and later, Once Upon A Time In America. By the time he did Goodfellas in 1990, he was a fully fledged movie star. For...
De Niro offers practical advice here, which means alot coming from an actor of his stature, and especially him I suppose, because so much theoretical voodoo has grown up around his work, in order to explain away his performances - the truth is, ac...
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...
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...
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 ...
Being independent has nothing whatever to do with money, or lack thereof. It has got nothing to do with the means of production. Independence is about how you think. We're currently seeing the proliferation of filmmakers who describe themselves as...
