Anthony Hopkins On Acting

Joe Navarro Analyzes Body Language During the 2020 Conventions

 

 

I’m a Body Language Expert. Here’s What I Saw During the Conventions.

What did people’s faces and gestures tell us, rather than just their the scripted speeches?

 

 

Also, check out:

Former FBI Agent Explains How to Read Body Language

 

 

Buster Keaton: The Art of the Gag

We referenced Keaton a lot in the first Paddington film. He is a master of timing, expression and physical comedy. 

Joe Rogan Experience - Interview with Rick Baker

Also, check out this interview on NPR:

// Rick Baker, The Monster Maker Of Hollywood

Hands in Movies: Grabbing Your Attention

Former FBI Agent Explains How to Read Body Language

Animation reference of the day! Joe Navarro's  book 'What Every Body Is Saying' is great -- I recommend it!

Cinema Cartography // M: Poisoned by Evil

The Voice Of Big Bird And Oscar Is Retiring After 50 Years on Sesame Street

// After 50 Years On 'Sesame Street,' The Voice Of Big Bird And Oscar Is Retiring

 

Frank Oz: In confidence (2013)

Ballet Dancer's Pantomime Performance of A Fight Between Two Kids

How amazing is this performance -- great physicality, timing and illusion. Love it!

How Stanislavski Reinvented the Craft of Acting

A Study of Comedy: Aki Kaurismäki - Hopeful Cynicism

This is an in depth video essay by Lewis Criswell focusing on the 'Hopeful Cynicism', comedy and psychology in the works of director Aki Kaurismaki. Excellent reference!

Bill Nighy On Acting

Thinking, Indecision, Emotion Reference: Ten Meter Tower

There is some great performance reference in the is short film. The fear, indecision and waves of emotion that the jumpers deal with is very genuine. The focused thinking, gestures and micro expressions are fantastic. 

// Ten Meter Tower: Would you jump? Or would you chicken out?

Viola Davis on Acting

Moana: Behind The Scenes

Great Acting: Interview with Sir Laurence Olivier (1966)

The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass. - Sir Laurence Olivier

Tex Avery and the Looney Tunes Revolution

Making Of Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr (1924)

Dialogue in Film: How Should Characters Talk?