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In today’s Actor’s Gym, we were reminded about bringing the gift of our life experience to the work. #createeveryday #creativelife #doitfortheprocess #abeautifulmess #lifeofanartist #creativity #creativecommunity #creativityeveryday #livecreatively #creativelifehappylife #creativeprocess #newcollective #dowhatyoulove #actingstudio #actingclasses #hollywoodactingclasses

In today’s Actor’s Gym, we were reminded that our inner child is our artistic self. #createeveryday #creativelife #doitfortheprocess #abeautifulmess #lifeofanartist #creativity #creativecommunity #creativityeveryday #livecreatively #creativelifehappylife #creativeprocess #newcollective #dowhatyoulove #actingstudio #actingclasses #hollywoodactingclasses

In today’s Actor’s Gym, we were reminded about trusting our impulses. #createeveryday #creativelife #doitfortheprocess #abeautifulmess #lifeofanartist #creativity #creativecommunity #creativityeveryday #livecreatively #creativelifehappylife #creativeprocess #newcollective #dowhatyoulove #actingstudio #actingclasses #hollywoodactingclasses

I’m today’s Actor’s Gym, we were reminded about the power of the present moment. #createeveryday #creativelife #doitfortheprocess #abeautifulmess #lifeofanartist #creativity #creativecommunity #creativityeveryday #livecreatively #creativelifehappylife #creativeprocess #newcollective #dowhatyoulove #actingstudio #actingclasses #hollywoodactingclasses

In today’s Actor’s Gym, we were reminded about our partnership with the process. #createeveryday #creativelife #doitfortheprocess #abeautifulmess #lifeofanartist #creativity #creativecommunity #creativityeveryday #livecreatively #creativelifehappylife #creativeprocess #newcollective #dowhatyoulove #actingstudio #actingclasses #hollywoodactingclasses

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Movie of the week: Quadrophenia is a 1979 British drama film, loosely based on The Who's 1973 rock opera of the same name. It was directed by Franc Roddam in his feature directing début. Unlike the adaptation of Tommy, Quadrophenia is not a musical film, and the band does not appear live in the film. Janet Maslin, reviewing the film for The New York Times in 1979, called it "...gritty and ragged and sometimes quite beautiful", creating a "...slice-of-life movie that feels tre...mendously authentic in its sentiments as well as its details." Maslin states that the director's scenes of youth battles "...capture a fierce, dizzying excitement that epitomizes a kind of youthful extreme." Rotten Tomatoes collected reviews from 11 critics and gave Quadrophenia a 100% rating. The New York Times placed the film on its Best 1000 Movies Ever list. #createeveryday #creativelife #doitfortheprocess #abeautifulmess #lifeofanartist #creativity #creativecommunity #creativityeveryday #livecreatively #creativelifehappylife #creativeprocess #newcollective #dowhatyoulove #actingstudio #actingclasses #hollywoodactingclasses

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Movie of the week: Meantime is a 1983 British comedy-drama television film directed by Mike Leigh, produced by Central Television for Channel 4. It was shown in 1983 at the London Film Festival and on Channel 4 and at the 1984 Berlin International Film Festival. According to the critic Michael Coveney: "The sapping, debilitating and demeaning state of unemployment, the futile sense of waste, has not been more poignantly, or poetically, expressed in any other film of the period." #createeveryday #creativelife #doitfortheprocess #abeautifulmess #lifeofanartist #creativity #creativecommunity #creativityeveryday #livecreatively #creativelifehappylife #creativeprocess #newcollective #dowhatyoulove #actingstudio #actingclasses #hollywoodactingclasses

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Movie of the week: The Elephant Man is a 1980 British-American historical drama film about Joseph Merrick (whom the script calls John Merrick), a severely deformed man in late 19th century London. The film was directed by David Lynch and stars John Hurt, Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Michael Elphick, Hannah Gordon, and Freddie Jones. It was produced by Jonathan Sanger and Mel Brooks, the latter of whom was intentionally left uncredited to avoid c...onfusion from audiences who possibly would have expected a comedy. The Elephant Man was a critical and commercial success with eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Actor. After receiving widespread criticism for failing to honor the film's make-up effects, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was prompted to create the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling the following year. The film also won the BAFTA Awards for Best Film, Best Actor, and Best Production Design and was nominated for Golden Globe awards. It also won a French César Award for Best Foreign Film. #createeveryday #creativelife #doitfortheprocess #abeautifulmess #lifeofanartist #creativity #creativecommunity #creativityeveryday #livecreatively #creativelifehappylife #creativeprocess #newcollective #dowhatyoulove #actingstudio #actingclasses #hollywoodactingclasses See more

Happy Birthday to the New Collective! We are so grateful to be celebrating eleven years of creativity, community and artistic support! We look forward to many more to come!

Movie of the week: David Lynch: The Art Life is a 2016 documentary film directed by Jon Nguyen. The film follows director David Lynch's upbringing in Montana and Idaho, his initial move to Philadelphia to pursue a career as a painter, to the beginning of the production of Eraserhead. David Lynch: The Art Life was made over four years as the filmmakers filmed and recorded over 20 conversations with Lynch at his home. The staff of the film had previously collaborated on making ...the film Lynch One, which was about the making of Inland Empire. The film received production through a Kickstarter campaign. Prior to the films premiere, Film Constellation purchased the world sales rights to The Art Life. David Lynch: The Art Life premiered at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival on September 4, 2016. The film received a limited release domestically on March 31, 2017. The film was released on Blu-ray Disc by The Criterion Collection. On the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, The Art Life currently holds a 90% approval rating, based on 68 reviews, with an average rating of 7.4/10. See more

Movie of the week: Day Trippers - - with its droll humor and bittersweet emotional heft, the feature debut of writer-director Greg Mottola announced the arrival of an unassumingly sharp-witted new talent on the 1990s indie film scene. When she discovers a love letter written to her husband (Stanley Tucci) by an unknown paramour, the distraught Eliza (Hope Davis) turns to her tight-knit Long Island family for advice. Soon the entire clanstrong-willed mom (Anne Meara), tacitur...n dad (Pat McNamara), and jaded sister (Parker Posey) with pretentious boyfriend (Liev Schreiber) in towhas squeezed into a station wagon and headed into Manhattan to find out the truth, kicking off a one-crazy-day odyssey full of unexpected detours and life-changing revelations. Performed with deadpan virtuosity by a top-flight ensemble cast, The Daytrippers is a wry and piercing look at family bonds stretched to the breaking point. See more

Movie of the week: Lost in America is a 1985 satirical road comedy film directed by Albert Brooks and co-written by Brooks with Monica Johnson. The film stars Brooks alongside Julie Hagerty as a married couple who decide to quit their jobs and travel across America. Lost In America received mostly positive reviews from critics and holds a 97% rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, based on 32 reviews, with the consensus; "A satire of the American fantasy of leaving it all behind, Lost in America features some of Albert Brooks' best, most consistent writing and cultural jabs." The film's script won the National Society of Film Critics award for Best Screenplay.

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Movie of the week: Bad Lieutenant is a 1992 American neo-noir crime drama film directed by Abel Ferrara. The film stars Harvey Keitel as the titular "bad lieutenant" as well as Victor Argo and Paul Calderon. The screenplay was co-written by Ferrara with actor-writer Paul Calderon and actress-model Zoe Lund, both of whom appear in the film. Roger Ebert gave the film four stars and stated that "in the Bad Lieutenant, Keitel has given us one of the great screen performances in recent years". Martin Scorsese named this movie as the fifth best movie of the 1990s.

Movie of the week: Brazil is a 1985 dystopian science fiction film directed by Terry Gilliam and written by Gilliam, Charles McKeown, and Tom Stoppard. The film stars Jonathan Pryce and features Robert De Niro, Kim Greist, Michael Palin, Katherine Helmond, Bob Hoskins, and Ian Holm. The film centres on Sam Lowry, a man trying to find a woman who appears in his dreams while he is working in a mind-numbing job and living in a small apartment, set in a dystopian world in which t...here is an over-reliance on poorly maintained (and rather whimsical) machines. Brazil's satire of bureaucratic, totalitarian government is reminiscent of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and has been called Kafkaesque and absurdist. Sarah Street's British National Cinema (1997) describes the film as a "fantasy/satire on bureaucratic society", and John Scalzi's Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies (2005) describes it as a "dystopian satire". Jack Mathews, a film critic and the author of The Battle of Brazil (1987), described the film as "satirizing the bureaucratic, largely dysfunctional industrial world that had been driving Gilliam crazy all his life". The film is named after the recurrent theme song, Ary Barroso's "Aquarela do Brasil", known simply as "Brazil" to British audiences, as performed by Geoff Muldaur. Though a success in Europe, the film was unsuccessful in its initial North American release. It has since become a cult film. In 1999, the British Film Institute voted Brazil the 54th greatest British film of all time. In 2017, a poll of 150 actors, directors, writers, producers, and critics for Time Out magazine saw it ranked the 24th best British film ever. See more