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3M ago
How creativity and progression are linked. Creativity is about starting with a blank sheet of paper and discovering what might fill it. If we simply repeat what we have done before then it is simply not creativity. Creativity is a process of discovery, largely through...
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The Great Acting Blog
1y ago
John Cleese’s book, Creativity, gives a fascinating insight into the creative process of one of the minds behind Monty Python and Fawlty Towers. One of the joys of this book is that it can be read in such a short gallop – just under...
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The Great Acting Blog
1y ago
The performance in your head is nothing – what actually took place is the actual performance. It’s not real – the director, the editor, the other actors, the final audience, cannot see what is inside your mind. They respond to what they see on...
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The Great Acting Blog
2y ago
Anna Magnani uses the full breadth and force of her personality in Luchino Visconti’s Bellissima. An actor’s personality is their performance. Range does not exist. Anna Magnani was known as “the volcanic mother of all Italian Cinema” and this is almost literally true in...
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The Great Acting Blog
2y ago
– Mifune embodied steadfastness, integrity and samurai spirit. – You have to root for the one who is outnumbered by the enemy but stands up to them anyway. – The Ronin acts out his rage and frustration, knowing that in the end it’s hopeless. ...
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The Great Acting Blog
2y ago
|Subscribe To The Great Acting Blog| Orson Welles described Jeanne Moreau as the greatest actor in the world. Quite a recommendation. Here I examine Moreau’s performance in Louis Malle’s Lift To The Scaffold, and try to articulate what makes her such an essential actor. By...
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The Great Acting Blog
2y ago
I first encountered Monica Vitti in Antonioni’s L’Eclisse, a film which I had originally obtained, bizarrely, on video tape, as it had not yet been released on DVD then. I was immediately struck by her moody-poetic screen persona, the sadness and the beauty. I...
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The Great Acting Blog
2y ago
When an actor is artist – Béatrice Dalle is our example here. “I’ve done 75 films and they’re all super … because I’ve always worked with auteurs.” … Are you rich? … “Hell, no. I don’t have a car, I don’t own my place,...
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The Great Acting Blog
2y ago
Perhaps time is a faulty measurement of progress. Often, we set our most important goals to a time-frame: ‘In 2022, I’m going to achieve X, Y and Z…’ , and decide whether that year has been a success or failure accordingly. The trouble with...
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The Great Acting Blog
2y ago
For those of us driven and intoxicated by the history of cinema, Belmondo is one of those figures who transcends his own work. He forms part of a tapestry of cinematic atmospheres; haunting us, inspiring us, inflecting and informing our work. Belmondo is an...
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