“In the Beginning Was the Word”
On July 21, 1938, shortly before Stanislavski’s death, a manuscript of An Actor Prepares was brought to him at Leontyevsky for his approval before printing. Lying on a couch in his spacious office—divided by Swedish bookshelves, behind which the “medical department” monitoring his health was concealed—he was handed unbound pages of the future book. “When […]
“The most important thing in the cinema and the theatre is the actor…”
Judy Dench describing perfectly how her work is actually 100% demidovian
She is letting her subconsciously work !
The marks of old geniuses
Pain is a strange thing…
As I write this, it’s 6:00 AM, and I’ve been awake since 3:00 AM due to terrible back pain—a reminder of the years I’ve spent misusing and abusing my body just to deliver with passion (my passion) whatever was needed for the show. Pain can be an obstacle, but it can also be a warning, […]
It kind of reminds me of a certain philosophy…
The Actors Studio and Lee Strasberg (By Robert H. Hethmon)
In recent years, visitors to New York seeking serious theater inevitably find themselves drawn beyond the glitz of Broadway and Ninth Avenue to a humble, two-story church building in a neoclassical Greek style. Surrounded by drab apartment buildings, it sits just a few feet back from the sidewalk, enclosed in front by black-painted iron railings. […]
I watched the Howard Hawks film Red River.
Great movie, no doubt about it and well worth a watch. I’ve become fascinated with the female lead in the film, SHE IS AHEAD OF HER TIME. It turns out that Hawks had such a signature way with his female leads that there is a name for them, “Hawksian Women”, a term that nearly became […]
Kate Winslet in Lee movie
— The film has its strong points (for anyone who hasn’t seen many WWII films, it offers something new; for those who enjoy these films, it provides a different perspective—but you won’t see anything you didn’t already know. A brilliant answer to “How did they not see it coming?” (Hitler’s madness)—“It was all happening so […]
And what does it mean, then, to be a poet?
It took me a long time to realize that being a poet essentially means to see—but take care, to see in such a way that what is seen is perceived by the audience exactly as the poet saw it. But only what has been truly experienced can be seen in this way and be received […]
