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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2019 20:22:43 GMT
Paddy Considine - Dead Man's Shoes
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Post by Longtallsally on Dec 10, 2019 20:51:40 GMT
Li Gong in Coming Home (2014)
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Post by Mattsby on Dec 10, 2019 22:42:17 GMT
SLJ & TLJ in The Sunset Limited (2011) "You think He goes around talking to people He knows ain't gonna listen to him in the first place? You think He got that kinda free time?" One of many remarkable line-readings from Jackson, imo by far his career-best perf. It's among Jones best too. Two extremely present and probing perfs from a greatly calibrated and rather haunting Cormac McCarthy script. Haven't seen since it aired. One of the first lines is "Christmas isn't what it used to be." Can I count this as a holiday watch?
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 11, 2019 11:18:38 GMT
Barbara Stanwyck - The Lady Eve (1941)
Unbelievably sexy and acting sexy too - as she would later do in the entirely different Double Indemnity - imagine getting those 2 scripts - Stanwyck makes every red blooded American male wish they were taller so they could have her look up at them the way she does with Henry Fonda here. She not only handles (the wonderful) dialog and reaction shots expertly, she is also great in merely listening scenes and scenes where she's not really listening too(!) ..............and she has so many comic zingers in this film that she doesn't play every one like a big joke moment either. My favorite line of hers is "You go upstairs and take a bath and I'll like you just as much as ever - there's a good boy"
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Post by JangoB on Dec 11, 2019 11:38:56 GMT
90's Jennifer Jason Leigh is a true force to behold - no two character interpretations are the same, all of them coming to life in their own unique way. Her performance in Robert Altman's all but forgotten but pretty decent "Kansas City" is no exception. It'd serve as a great double-bill with another JJL's gem, her fast-talking Amy Archer from "The Hudsucker Proxy" except in this movie she plays a fidgety criminal intent on doing anything she can to rescue her beloved crook of a husband. Leigh gives her so many colors - there's regret within her, genuine love, genuine longing for friendship and also all that spunk! Adding this to the JJL Great Performances list.
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Post by Mattsby on Dec 11, 2019 22:13:59 GMT
90's Jennifer Jason Leigh is a true force to behold - no two character interpretations are the same, all of them coming to life in their own unique way. Her performance in Robert Altman's all but forgotten but pretty decent "Kansas City" is no exception. It'd serve as a great double-bill with another JJL's gem, her fast-talking Amy Archer from "The Hudsucker Proxy" except in this movie she plays a fidgety criminal intent on doing anything she can to rescue her beloved crook of a husband. Leigh gives her so many colors - there's regret within her, genuine love, genuine longing for friendship and also all that spunk! Adding this to the JJL Great Performances list. Love this movie a lot, quite an unsung Altman it's available no where. Whole cast is great - JJL, Harry Belafonte and his cigar box, and I especially love Miranda Richardson here, a crushing perf, she's in an almost fugue state of sadness and gets that greatly sarcastic remark in the last line of the movie "Know what I didn't do today..." It's a perfect (any) Election Day watch.
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Post by Mattsby on Dec 11, 2019 22:26:58 GMT
Fredric March, Middle of the Night (1959). Wow. His perf is hugely felt and complicated, a complete portrait of a tricky attraction (he's almost 60, Kim Novak his secretary is 25) and his experienced strength against an aging hesitation. Paddy Chayefsky script is very good - and there's built-in angles for actors to play. Nobody wants this age-gap romance to stick, even when they say they do. There's a lot of subtext of wanting to keep in control of others - like when March's daughter vents about her Aunt's disapproval of March's affairs but the Aunt is the calm one in that exchange. Also speaks to the impossibility of self-control when all bothered by loving someone - such as March not able to continue his office work when near Novak. The pic above is a major silent moment of contemplation and deep fear; the camera dollys close to his face and it's gut-wrenching, and it's all March. I need to see more from him - I love him in Best Years, Desperate Hours, Jekyll, and I've seen and liked some lighter stuff, I Marred A Witch, Nothing Sacred. Anybody wanna recommend more??
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 11, 2019 22:36:36 GMT
I need to see more from him - I love him in Best Years, Desperate Hours, Jekyll, and I've seen and liked some lighter stuff, I Marred A Witch, Nothing Sacred. Anybody wanna recommend more?? A Star Is Born (the first one!), Inherit The Wind, Hombre, Bridges At Toko-Ri and of course Death Of A Salesman - a lot of our conceptions and theories about great acting come from March in a lot of ways just by his mere presence and gravity and the fact that he was acclaimed - the acclaim is always important!
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Post by JangoB on Dec 13, 2019 1:00:09 GMT
The "Jacknife" trio - Robert De Niro, Ed Harris and Kathy Baker. All are astonishing. If these performances don't at least make a lump in your throat, you're probably soulless. Or already dead. Unbelievably moving performances, so lived in, natural, effortless, heartbreaking. Perhaps Ed Harris's finest hour.
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Post by Longtallsally on Dec 15, 2019 21:37:20 GMT
Mahershala Ali in Moonlight
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Post by Mattsby on Dec 16, 2019 19:11:51 GMT
pacinoyes listed Mirren's male costars yesterday and I hadda look up what she did with Olivier, and I never heard of this before.... “I get a bit sick of words sometimes, don’t you? Let’s have a game…”The Collection (1976) - Loved it. Dir by Michael Apted, 64 min TV Movie with four very good- great-ish perfs. They're the whole thing so I'm posting in this thread. Almost every line of dialogue is barbed and cooked with undertones of disdain and vitriol and teasing. Would pair well with Pinter's other adaptation Betrayal, a cross-current of sexual envy and reproach, all thru a certain wit and formality. There are constant surprises in character behavior and what goes unsaid, like the nature of the Olivier relationship. It's also quite funny, like the grapefruit juice bit. And so many great lines.... McDowell mocking Olivier says “Those church bells have certainly left their mark on you.” Olivier later belittles McDowell and his deviancy - "A certain kind of slum mind is perfectly alright... in a slum..." and Alan Bates epic diss at his wife Mirren about the guy she may have cheated on him with, he goes “There’s nothing to it - everything back to normal - only difference is I’ve come across a man I can respect."
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Post by TerryMontana on Dec 16, 2019 21:25:52 GMT
There's some great stuff here! They are both at the top of their game and play off each other wonderfully. Wouldn't surprise me at all if they both scored Oscar nominations. In fact, I'd love that to happen! Pryce is funny and touching playing a good-hearted cardinal with troubled past, whose faith is being tested. And Hopkins, well, just give the man characters with authority and dialogue!! Nails it.
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 17, 2019 21:23:12 GMT
Adam Sandler - Uncut Gems
One of the better lead performances I've seen this year that is hurt by the script and its lack of arc but he brings energy and colors it in too - a sort of manic, yet soulful turn that takes the most grating aspects of his persona and uses them to go to exhausting heights.
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Post by Javi on Dec 21, 2019 0:14:54 GMT
Jonathan Pryce & Anthony Hopkins - The Two PopesPryce is not only effortlessly charismatic and jovial but he has to juggle the character's moral convictions (his stubbornness) with a pained but genuine deference to authority. In other words, he's constantly "offensive" while trying his damnedest to be polite. Pryce understands the comedy of his situation--he's hilarious in this. Hopkins meanwhile masterly (and surreptitiously) emerges as the emotional center of the film... his physical posture suggests he's barely there in the physical world--he becomes alive in conversation. Benedict may have no sense of humor but Hopkins sure does... it's a rich, haunted, full performance. Best of all is the level of intelligence in the room whenever these 2 actors share the screen... this is a really messy script and the magic is basically all theirs here. Here they are walking the gardens of Isengard (?) - my juvenile mind was instantly reminded of Gandalf & Saruman...
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Post by Mattsby on Dec 22, 2019 19:03:54 GMT
Robert Duvall / Tommy Lee Jones, Lonesome Dove (1989). First two parts were alright, but those last two parts... were absolutely terrific, centering even more on Duvall/TLJ, whose chemistry I'd put among the very best I've seen in a Western. And this wound up being my very favorite Duvall perf, I think - immensely charming, stubborn, poignant.
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Post by TerryMontana on Dec 24, 2019 13:24:48 GMT
Banderas in a very different role than most of his career. A character suffering from his past and present life choices, with physical and mental pain, fighting his own demons. Definitely deserves an Oscar nod imo.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Dec 24, 2019 17:55:41 GMT
Willem Freakin Dafoe in The Lighthouse. An assaultive & brilliant performance, maybe his best ever?
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 24, 2019 20:11:20 GMT
Charlize Theron - As Megyn Kelly in BombshellA far better performance than anyone in the cast or than the film deserves, Theron gets all the nuances of character right - the speaking voice, the look, the facial tics of Kelly and far more. When her husband is playing tennis - defending her honor too of course because well, everyone has to be talking all the time - she is believable as a wife. She's believable in various types of human behavior which include a certain no BS toughness, legal smarts, sexiness, and an unbending humor. I found more to like in her portrayal than I thought I would - I'm not sure in what way this performance could have been better actually. Convincing, eating pizza:
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 25, 2019 10:54:35 GMT
Albert Finney - Scrooge (1970)The great Albert Finney was just 33 when he played this role which has to rank in modern young age trickery with Dustin Hoffman in TV's Death of a Salesman (47 there I think). Finney is realistic here - frighteningly so as an actors creation and this is utterly his creation - and yet not realistic at all - like all the best actors who know that "subtle" acting is often boring acting, when he goes big he overdoes it gloriously - his make-up is heavy, the piece - even in 1970 - was verging on cliche and yet his work is not. You can count on your hands the actors who can go this big and detailed within the same role.
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Post by TerryMontana on Dec 26, 2019 20:42:00 GMT
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Post by PromNightCarrie on Dec 27, 2019 8:41:26 GMT
De Niro and Pesci in the Irishman
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 27, 2019 11:18:37 GMT
Roy Scheider & Vincent D'Onofrio - Law & Order Criminal Intent : "Endgame"The show had run its course by the time of this episode but they put all their chips on the table here - they not only brought back D'Onofrio's characters mother (Rita Moreno) and a memorable character from his past briefly (Mark Linn-Baker) but a smartly drawn new character in Roy Scheider. This show could have very well ended it series run with this episode - in many ways the whole shows peaks when these two actors speak about their entwined past - and they are electrifying to watch, they really sell this far-fetched plot.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Dec 28, 2019 7:27:15 GMT
it's been mostly overlooked so far, but the eternally charming Emma Thompson gave her best performance in years in Late Night as an embittered cynical talk show host fighting to keep her job while complaining about youtube and twitter (it has to be the most ok boomer movie of 2019) and also giving expression to the frustration of being a woman with rapidly diminishing prospects in the back end of a long showbiz career. She nails the comedy and she nails the raw and emotional bits (especially in one scene toward the end with co-legend John Lithgow). Just another entry in her still-growing list of great performances.
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 28, 2019 10:53:00 GMT
Diane Keaton - Love and Death (1975)
Not only a riotously funny Keaton performance but a marvelously energetic one as well - imagine how this material could fall flat if not played with great zeal! She is Woody Allen's partner in hilarity here and they have an inspired comic timing, back and forth. Part of the charm of this is that the film's subject matter - great, tragic Russian literature tropes played absurdly gives her a chance to not merely send up the literature but also the film adaptations of them too - it's great, sly fun.
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Post by TerryMontana on Dec 28, 2019 15:13:15 GMT
In this year's many cinematic duos, I tend to prefer the less obvious choice of the two: Johansson over Driver, Di Caprio over Pitt, Awkwafina over Zhao, Hopkins over Pryce... That was also the case for the Lighthouse. Dafoe gave a tremendous performance, but I prefer Pattinson's. Maybe because I knew what Dafoe is capable of, on the other hand I never considered Pattinson a great actor. But in this movie, his acting was great!!
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