Reading List and Films

Recommended reading list to help you develop your skills as an actor:

"Respect for Acting" by Utah Hagen

"Dream of Passion" by Lee Strasberg

"How to Stop Acting" by Harold Guskin 

"Truth" by Susan Batson

"Man and His Symbols" by C.G. Jung 

"The Hero with a Thousand Faces" by Joseph Campbell

"The Drama of the Gifted Child" by Alice Miller

"The Birth of Tragedy" by Frederic Nietzsche

"99 Film Scenes Book" by Angela Nicholas

"Practical Handbook for the Actor" by Melissa Bruder

And of course read as many Greek Tragedies as you can (Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides), start with the "Bacchae" by Euripides.

FILM LIST:

Suggested movies to watch (by David Giles and Dave Mitchell):

- Picnic at Hanging Rock

- Walkabout

- I'm Alright Jack

- Gandhi

- Ice Cold in Alex

- A Matter of Life & Death

- The Hill

- Bugsy Malone

- Chariots of Fire

- Truly, Madly, Deeply

- Sense & Sensibility

- Repulsion

- Mona Lisa

- The Long Good Friday

- Lawrence of Arabia

- The Ipcress File

- Mediterraneo

- Jean de Florette/ Manon des Sources (French)

- Cyrano de Bergerac (1990 - French)

- La Haine (French)

- Downfall (German) 

- Les 400 coups (French)

- Les Enfants du Paradis 

- L'Enfant Sauvage (French)

- La Regle du Jeu (French)

- L'Aventura

- Blow up

- Wings of Desire

- Run Lola Run

- The Seven Samurai (Japonese)

- The Man Who Would be King

- Deliverance

- Midnight Cowboy

- Lolita (by Kubrick)

- Dr Strangelove

- The Shining

- The Shawshank Redemption

- Don't Look Now

- Withnail and I

- The Spy Who Came In From the Cold

- The Day of the Jackal (70's version)

- Some Like it Hot

- This is Spinal Tap