https://footeandfriendsonfilm.com Any film you haven't seen -- is a new experience! Sun, 05 Jun 2022 11:59:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.4 /wp-content/uploads/2018/09/cropped-FF-1-32x32.png https://footeandfriendsonfilm.com 32 32 /2022/06/05/the-top-10-performance-of-the-fifties/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-top-10-performance-of-the-fifties /2022/06/05/the-top-10-performance-of-the-fifties/#respond Sun, 05 Jun 2022 11:59:23 +0000 /?p=19041 By John H. Foote After the Method swept through New York, film actors began studying the system and the results were apparent on screen. More than ever, acting was at a peak for realism from actors such as Marlon Brando, Joanne Woodward, and Paul Newman. James Dean claimed to be hardcore Method but was instead…

The post THE TOP 10 PERFORMANCE OF THE FIFTIES appeared first on Foote & Friends on Film.]]> /2022/06/05/the-top-10-performance-of-the-fifties/feed/ 0 /2022/06/03/tiff-gears-up/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tiff-gears-up /2022/06/03/tiff-gears-up/#respond Fri, 03 Jun 2022 11:34:30 +0000 /?p=19049 By John H. Foote After two years of a virtual film festival, meaning most of we critics saw the films via the internet in the comforts of our offices or homes, TIFF is gearing up for the festival to be as it always has been. The Scotiabank Theatre will again be humming with screenings and…

The post TIFF GEARS UP appeared first on Foote & Friends on Film.]]> /2022/06/03/tiff-gears-up/feed/ 0 /2022/05/27/john-wayne-the-10-greatest-performances/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=john-wayne-the-10-greatest-performances /2022/05/27/john-wayne-the-10-greatest-performances/#respond Fri, 27 May 2022 12:44:46 +0000 /?p=19025 By John H. Foote Never say to me John Wayne could not act. Ever. The great film historian John Milius once said, “I think John Wayne in The Searchers is the greatest performance in the history of cinema.” It certainly is one of them. Wayne believed in planting his feet and telling the truth, that…

The post JOHN WAYNE: THE 10 GREATEST PERFORMANCES appeared first on Foote & Friends on Film.]]> /2022/05/27/john-wayne-the-10-greatest-performances/feed/ 0 /2022/05/27/ray-liotta-dies/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ray-liotta-dies /2022/05/27/ray-liotta-dies/#respond Fri, 27 May 2022 12:07:25 +0000 /?p=19023 By John H. Foote Ray Liotta, 67, died in his sleep on Wednesday. The actor was not known to have been ill, and the passing has come as a terrible shock to his family and friends. Liotta shot to stardom in the eighties with a superb performance as the ex-convict Charlie in Jonathan Demme’s Something…

The post RAY LIOTTA DIES appeared first on Foote & Friends on Film.]]> /2022/05/27/ray-liotta-dies/feed/ 0 /2022/05/26/great-performances-of-the-forties/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=great-performances-of-the-forties /2022/05/26/great-performances-of-the-forties/#respond Thu, 26 May 2022 11:31:54 +0000 /?p=19010 By John H. Foote The art of acting evolved slowly throughout the 1940s, but in 1947, it was forever altered when Marlon Brando stepped onto the New York stage as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire. His gritty, explosive performance changed the very fabric of acting more than it had been changed in 30…

The post GREAT PERFORMANCES OF THE FORTIES appeared first on Foote & Friends on Film.]]> /2022/05/26/great-performances-of-the-forties/feed/ 0 /2022/05/21/raging-bull-vs-ordinary-people/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=raging-bull-vs-ordinary-people /2022/05/21/raging-bull-vs-ordinary-people/#respond Sat, 21 May 2022 11:38:33 +0000 /?p=18999 By John H. Foote When the film critics assembled to choose the finest films of the 80s, no one was surprised to see Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull (1980), the searing drama about middle-weight boxer Jake La Motta. The film had earned rave reviews, won a slew of critic’s awards, and awards all round for actor…

The post RAGING BULL VS. ORDINARY PEOPLE appeared first on Foote & Friends on Film.]]> /2022/05/21/raging-bull-vs-ordinary-people/feed/ 0 /2022/05/07/the-top-10-performances-of-the-1930s/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-top-10-performances-of-the-1930s /2022/05/07/the-top-10-performances-of-the-1930s/#respond Sat, 07 May 2022 12:07:52 +0000 /?p=18980 By John H. Foote The art of film acting was evolving in the 30s and did not reach its peak until the 50s with the explosive arrival of Marlon Brando. With the introduction of sound, Hollywood began looting the Broadway stage for actors with effective voices such as Bette Davis, Katherine Hepburn, James Stewart, elevating…

The post THE TOP 10 PERFORMANCES OF THE 1930’S appeared first on Foote & Friends on Film.]]> /2022/05/07/the-top-10-performances-of-the-1930s/feed/ 0 /2022/04/25/acting/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=acting /2022/04/25/acting/#respond Mon, 25 Apr 2022 14:19:26 +0000 /?p=18954 By John H. Foote I love acting – not doing it – but appreciating it. So much more goes into a performance than the untrained eye might realize. The lines are agonized over, not just learning them but how they are delivered. A line delivered too strong can be silly, whereas not enough underplays the…

The post ACTING appeared first on Foote & Friends on Film.]]> /2022/04/25/acting/feed/ 0