What do Meryl Streep, Jessica Chastain, Adam Driver and Oscar Isaac all have in common? Moni Yakim. For over 52 years, Yakim has taught movement at Julliard. His students have included Hollywood’s most celebrated actors, and he is often cited as one of their most formative influences.
The new documentary “Creating a Character” tells the story of the native Israeli who moved to Paris in the early ’50s, where he took up mime. Soon he was performing around the world. During a Parisian performance, Stella Adler discovered him and brought him to New York at her newly formed Stella Adler Studio of Acting.
From his move to America to keeping in touch with his former students, Yakim talks to Variety about the new documentary, produced by Kali Wilder, Alma Har’el, and Boaz Yakin, while Rauzar Alexander makes his feature documentary directorial debut.
What challenges did you face along the way,...
The new documentary “Creating a Character” tells the story of the native Israeli who moved to Paris in the early ’50s, where he took up mime. Soon he was performing around the world. During a Parisian performance, Stella Adler discovered him and brought him to New York at her newly formed Stella Adler Studio of Acting.
From his move to America to keeping in touch with his former students, Yakim talks to Variety about the new documentary, produced by Kali Wilder, Alma Har’el, and Boaz Yakin, while Rauzar Alexander makes his feature documentary directorial debut.
What challenges did you face along the way,...
- 7/15/2020
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
"I think what he taught me: was how to, physically, be alive. Really alive." First Run Film has debuted an official trailer for a performing arts world documentary titled Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy, which marks the feature directorial debut of documentary filmmaker Rauzar Alexander. As the title of the doc indicates, the film is a loving portrait of and examination of the beloved Israeli-American drama teacher Moni Yakim, who was one of the original founders of Julliard's Drama Division and still works there today teaching actors how to "create a character". Includes interview with Laura Linney, Jessica Chastain, Anthony Mackie, Oscar Isaac, Kevin Kline, and many others, discussing his legacy and his skill in "freeing" talented actors. If you have ever wondered - who teaches the greatest actors to be as great as they are? Well – this guy. Learn the story of Moni Yakim and what truly...
- 6/21/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The Drama Division at New York's Juilliard School is considered the best in the world, and Moni Yakim is its sole inaugural faculty member still active. Feared and revered, he is generally held back from first-year students, and to hear Oscar Isaac tell it, their delayed introduction to his demanding classes comes with a mix of excitement and dread: "Oh my gosh, get ready, 'cause Moni's gonna kill you!" Rauzar Alexander's celebratory portrait, Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy, does a fine job of tracing the formation of this staunch proponent of physical communication in acting....
- 6/15/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The Drama Division at New York's Juilliard School is considered the best in the world, and Moni Yakim is its sole inaugural faculty member still active. Feared and revered, he is generally held back from first-year students, and to hear Oscar Isaac tell it, their delayed introduction to his demanding classes comes with a mix of excitement and dread: "Oh my gosh, get ready, 'cause Moni's gonna kill you!" Rauzar Alexander's celebratory portrait, Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy, does a fine job of tracing the formation of this staunch proponent of physical communication in acting....
- 6/15/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Creating A Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Rauzar Alexander Screenwriter: Rauzar Alexander Cast: Moni Yakim, Laura Linney, Michael Urie, Jessica Chastain, Oscar Isaac, Anthony Mackie, Alex Sharp, Kevin Kline, Mina Yakim, Charles E. Gerber, Peter Jacobson, Michael Stuhlbarg Screened at: Critics’ link, […]
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- 6/14/2020
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
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