Oscar, all over bar the Shouting
Well…. 12YEARS A SLAVE won its so deserved best picture Oscar and having voted for it, I for one am delighted.
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OSCAR AWAITS YOU!
Oscar will be awaiting your pleasure tomorrow night friends and frankly every film and every person involved in all the films should win this year…the standard is very high at least in the main categories. I have said this before but I will say it one more time, I was very disappointed that WADJDA…the Saudi…
newchillingtales.com A NEW FILM
I am delighted to tell you that a New Chilling Tale, THE DAMNED THING is finished and has been accepted into the Sun Vally Film Festival as an Official entry! I am thrilled, it is a wonderful story, written by the great Civil War writer Ambrose Bierce. At the moment the first…
Projects from friends
Not so much a recent project, more a new one for this site….I want to help you to find some of my friends, who are doing interesting work at the moment and, if I can, help promote their work. Here is Charlotte Durie, artist, whose work I like and whom, I have know for a…
JANE MERROW ACTS, BLOGS and waits
Waiting is a large part of Acting…you are either waiting for an audition, news of an audition, news of getting a job, a job to start, a call to start, waiting on set and my favourite saying “Hurry up and wait”. You’re making a movie/TV whatever and your call to make-up is at 6am…6am at…
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OSCAR SHORTS, DOCUMENTARIES, FOREIGN, ANIMATED
The Oscar race is on and the finish line approaches, Sunday March 2nd. It’s all good and exciting. One of my favourite parts is here viewing all those nominated in Best Foreign , Best Animated, Best Short, Best Documentary Best Short Documentary. I get to see such great films from all over the place…
OSCAR NOMINATED FILMS AND THE ACTORS
Last time I wrote about the Nominated Films, I included AUGUST, OSAGE COUNTY, which was not nominated. I wonder why. There are usually ten nominations for Best Picture, this year there only nine. My mistake.. So to the remaining four…from an Actors viewpoint. 1. THE WOLF OF WALL STREET directed by the incomparable Martin Scorsese…
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN
Philip Seymour Hoffman. Dead. So sad, such a loss, a great talent gone and in such a wasteful way. When I was a child, my grandmother, who had worked in theatre, had a picture of a famous actress of her day, with whom my grandmother had worked…Meggie Albanesi. I asked about her and Nan said…
OSCAR NOMINATED FILMS AND GREAT ACTING FROM AN ACTOR’S PERSPECTIVE
In no particular order, let’s look at the ten nominated films for Best Picture and the performances that help achieve their nominations. 1. Saw AMERICAN HUSTLE for the second time this week. Great movie, great performances, I am really impressed. However, for me, one of the most riveting performance came from the uncredited Robert De…