"You listen to great actors talk...and they always talk about the story. 'My role here is to do this part so this story can be told,' which is a wonderful attitude."
If you want to tell a story on film, you most likely are going to require actors, and hopefully great ones. But how does one talk about how actors do? Sheila O'Malley has more than enough experience in acting, and has become one of the most prolific bloggers of how to discuss the craft, so Peter invites her own to share her experiences and ideas about the profession. Sheila talks about her first acting love (James Dean) and her experience in The Actors Studio, before deciding to take the conversations of her friends and turn them into blog posts. The two also discuss many great iconic performances - Cary Grant in Notorious, Sissy Spacek in Badlands, Alain Delon in Le Samourai - and the way the different actors can approach different roles. Finally, the two work through a truly towering film, John Cassavetes's Opening Night, and examine how it both celebrates the world of acting as well as captures its most terrifying anxieties.
0:00-1:01 Opening
2:08-8:21 Establishing Shots - Short Term 12 / Trivia Round
9:06-1:03:33 Deep Focus - Sheila O'Malley
1:05:32-1:29:57 Double Exposure - Opening Night (John Cassavetes)
1:30:00-1:31:41 Close
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Notes and Links from the Conversation
-Discovering James Dean
-More on the Meisner Technique
-The Actors Studio
-Meeting Elia Kazan
-James Agee's "Comedy's Greatest Era"
-Sissy Spacek in Badlands
-Cary Grant posts: Notorious,
-When actors "just play themselves"
-On the performances in The Birth of a Nation
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-Alain Delon in Le Samourai
-Jeremy Renner
-Johnny Depp in Public Enemies
-Mikey Rourke
-Bruce McGill and Character Actors
-Thomas Mitchell
-Elvis Posts by Sheila
-Judy Garland sings "Battle Hymn of the Republic"
-Iranian Cinema posts, including This is Not A Film.
-Frances Farmer
-On the melancholy of Owen Wilson
-A Desert Island Movie
-Peter on A Woman Under the Influence
-Ray Carney's The Films of John Cassavetes and Cassavetes on Cassavetes
-More on the Meisner Technique
-The Actors Studio
-Meeting Elia Kazan
-James Agee's "Comedy's Greatest Era"
-Sissy Spacek in Badlands
-Cary Grant posts: Notorious,
-When actors "just play themselves"
-On the performances in The Birth of a Nation
-42
-Alain Delon in Le Samourai
-Jeremy Renner
-Johnny Depp in Public Enemies
-Mikey Rourke
-Bruce McGill and Character Actors
-Thomas Mitchell
-Elvis Posts by Sheila
-Judy Garland sings "Battle Hymn of the Republic"
-Iranian Cinema posts, including This is Not A Film.
-Frances Farmer
-On the melancholy of Owen Wilson
-A Desert Island Movie
-Peter on A Woman Under the Influence
-Ray Carney's The Films of John Cassavetes and Cassavetes on Cassavetes
Theme Music: “Forward” by Northbound
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