Michael Caine - Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making (The Applause Acting Series) Revised Expanded Edition,   ISBN:9781557832771

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Nothing but truth in this book. Very practical text for a film class and any beginner looking for advice.

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Well....it was nice of Caine to share his experience...but...I'll never read it again or took much good advice from it, as opposed to David Mamet's - True and False.

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A book that has always had a secure spot in my collection, Michael Caine's "Acting In Film" remains, for my money, the most entertainingly accessible analysis of how to go about the whole tricky business of rendering a screen performance ever written.

Drawing on some forty years of experience and writing with his usual charm, candour and self-deprecating sense of humour, Caine examines every aspect of the process - from learning your lines and building your character to hitting your marks and dealing with prima donnas on set. Whilst it's true that it may not be up to the literary standards of more conventionally high-brow acting fare such as Stanislavski's An Actor Prepares, it is simple, entertainingly written and devastatingly effective when put into practice (and although it's been a number of years since I last walked the boards, I speak from personal experience).

If you can find a copy, I also recommend checking out Acting in Film - An Actor's Take on Movie Making - Michael Caine - the one hour acting masterclass by Caine, broadcast by the BBC in the nineteen eighties, that inspired this book. Whether you're an actor, an actress, or are just interested in the art of screen-acting, I suspect you'll find it to be one of the most truly fascinating insights into the processes of a screen actor that you've ever seen.

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I read this book on a whim, I thought it would be very insightful to get an insider's view of the movie business. This truly is a very intriguing read. Caine talks about such things as how to act differently in a closeup as opposed to a master shot, how to deal with difficult directors, and maintaining the same emotional intensity from one shot to the next. The writing style is very easy to read, and Caine has many humerous anecdotes to share along the way. It's also a very quick read, I think I finished this book in under two hours. Really, that's the only flaw in the book. The reader is left wanting the book to continue, to go more in depth. But even as it is, brief and to the point, it is a very engaging read and I recommend this to all actors wanting to do film, and to anyone interested in a film actor's process.

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Michael Caine's "Acting in Film" is the best book on acting I've ever read! I would recommend to readers of all ages and stages!