Do you ever find yourself losing attention during a show or movie? Could you be distracted by bad acting ? How would you know and articulate this? Part of the joy of watching movies, TV, and theater is knowing that it isn’t real and going along with the created fiction. [...]
Posts under ‘Acting’
Aug 07
On the Waterfront – Elia Kazan – taxicab – I didn’t direct that
Wanting more information on that taxicab scene in On the Waterfront, I’ve consulted hard copy – Elia Kazan: A Life
The clip from this scene is in the post Budd Schulberg RIP – i could’ve been a contender. And the script excerpt is in On The Waterfront – INT—TAXICAB—EVENING.
Published in 1988, Kazan’s autobiography contains many [...]
Aug 01
On Marlon Brando – comments by Karl Malden, Robert Duvall and Harry Dean Stanton
Went looking for more information about Karl Malden and came across the transcript from a Larry King interview on CNN on the death of Marlon Brando in July 2004. Fascinating to see the comments of these great actors on the greatest. Karl and Marlon worked closely together for years on stage and on film.
Karl Malden, [...]
Jul 25
Anna Magnani and Marlon Brando in The Fugitive Kind
Sometimes you have to hunt out great performances in films that are not too often seen. Here’s a clip i found of Anna Magnani and Marlon Brando in The Fugitive Kind 1960.
The performances are fantastic and I loved the Directing / Cinematography (Sidney Lumet / Boris Kaufman) with extended close ups, interesting angles, an upside [...]
Jul 24
Harold Clurman Video
Here’s a true blast from the past, a video of Harold Clurman speaking at the Mark Taper Forum in LA, sometime in the late 1970’s.
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“The reason the theatre is mediocre, it has been for a long time, is the state of our world, the state of our country, it’s mediocre. it’s afraid to move this way or that way. i know i’m right. i may not know the theatre, but i know the country.
it is afraid to move. it is afraid to progress. it is afraid to be enthusiastic. it’s afraid to be wrong. afraid to move on afraid to have enthusiasm. it’s afraid to take a chance it’s afraid to have courage
this always makes me angry because life is a losing game and you might as well enjoy it. after all they say you’re gonna die. once in a while it occurs even to me. so it’s a losing game, but what an adventure.
