What’s your Favourite Film?
A good actor watches films and learns how other actors do their job. If they are impressed enough, a good actor will copy a great actor.
But like everyone else, we get stuck a kind of rut and end up watching the same kind of films over again. Maybe we only watch slapstick comedies or French films or superhero movies or films in our own language.
Which means we always see the same kind of actors in the same kind of roles. And we don’t learn anything new from watching them.
So try this: next time you meet a friend or someone new, ask them what film – which they don’t think you’ve seen – they’d recommend you watch.
You’ll get all kinds of different styles, genres, cinema-types and actors coming up.
And when you watch that newly recommended film you’ll hopefully see a new kind of acting and learn something from it.
Something you may have missed if you’d stayed in your own film zone!
Our list
We did a quick ask around the office and this is what we came up with so if you haven’t seen any of these, why not give them a go?
In no particular order, our staff suggest:
- La Vie d’Adele (Blue is the Warmest Colour) – directed by Abdellatif Kechiche with Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux (France)
- 8½ – directed Federico Fellini with Marcello Mastroianni (Italy)
- The Godfather – directed by Francis Ford Coppola with Al Pacino (USA)
- I, Daniel Blake – directed by Ken Loach with Dave Johns and Hayley Squires (UK)
- Shawshank Redemption – directed by Frank Darabont with Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman (USA)
- Cinema Paradiso – directed by Giuseppe Tornatore (Italy)
- Oldboy – directed by Chan-wook Park with Choi Min-sik (South Korea)
- The Devil Wears Prada 0 directed by David Frankel with Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway (USA)
- The Crown – Netflix
