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Naked Cinema: Working with Actors
Sally Potter has been renowned for her rapport with actors, and for the luminous performances she works with them to produce. Now she strips bare the art and craft of directing actors for the camera, from casting a film to the moment of first screening when the work goes public.
A brilliant writer for the screen, here Potter shows herself to be expert at translating the experience of film directing to the page. She addresses us in prose that is both unsentimental and inspired, tracing the energies that pass between actor, director and audience; shaping for the reader the acts of transmission and imagination, performance and witness, the sum of which make up a film.
In addition to the core text, the book contains interviews with actors with whom Sally Potter has worked, whose voices will counterpoint Sally Potter's, and will inform and illuminate the reader's sense of her work. Those interviewed include: Julie Christie, Jude Law, Judi Dench, Simon Abkarian, Annette Benning, Timothy Spall, Steve Buscemi, Riz Ahmed, Elle Fanning, Alessandro Nivola, and Lily Cole.
A brilliant writer for the screen, here Potter shows herself to be expert at translating the experience of film directing to the page. She addresses us in prose that is both unsentimental and inspired, tracing the energies that pass between actor, director and audience; shaping for the reader the acts of transmission and imagination, performance and witness, the sum of which make up a film.
In addition to the core text, the book contains interviews with actors with whom Sally Potter has worked, whose voices will counterpoint Sally Potter's, and will inform and illuminate the reader's sense of her work. Those interviewed include: Julie Christie, Jude Law, Judi Dench, Simon Abkarian, Annette Benning, Timothy Spall, Steve Buscemi, Riz Ahmed, Elle Fanning, Alessandro Nivola, and Lily Cole.
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400 pages, Paperback
First published March 4, 2014
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18 books6 followersSally Potter is an English film director and screenwriter.
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November 13, 2017
There is no contemporary writer/director working at Sally Potter's level who's been as generous as to sit down and write a book such as this one.
Her book is simply beautiful.
You can indeed use it as a manual to attack very real filmmaking problems, or just to think/learn/muse about film, art, personality and the creative process in general.
Sally Potter is a brilliant writer and it's a real joy to read anything she pens. So. That too. :)
Her book is simply beautiful.
You can indeed use it as a manual to attack very real filmmaking problems, or just to think/learn/muse about film, art, personality and the creative process in general.
Sally Potter is a brilliant writer and it's a real joy to read anything she pens. So. That too. :)
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