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Acting Out: On the Reflexivity of Actors in Crisis
Some actors treat their profession simply like a job. When asked about acting, Spencer Tracy famously offered the following: “Come to work on time, know your lines and don’t bump into the other actors.” But Tracy’s workmanlike approach is certainly not the onl...
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Bertolucci’s “The Last Emperor”: Beneath the Gold Ornamentation
Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor (1987) chronicles the story of a man unable to break out of his destiny. The Chinese Emperor Pu Yi (played as an adult by John Lone) receives the throne as a child. “The son of heaven,” he is the most powerful person in t...
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History of Film: “Lawrence of Arabia”
All of them. Forget all the other movies ever made. David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia is the reason we go to the cinema. All the great works of art take us somewhere; this movie is one of the greatest objects in the greatest of crafts. Every time we face a scree...
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Peter O’Toole: One of Cinema’s Greatest Actors Has Died
"I pray that I may never see the desert again. Hear me, God." ~ T.E. Lawrence
Peter O'Toole was one of the most acclaimed actors to never actually win an Academy Award. He was nominated eight times for his performances in Lawrence of Arabia, Becket, The Lio...
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