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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 4, 2019 9:29:16 GMT
Bobby Cannavale - Danny Collins (2015) - re-watchAn ingratiating mix of formula that completely gets over because of the cast - two triple crown winners, Pacino and Plummer and a winning, lovely Annette Bening but Cannavale gives a genuine ace supporting performance here that should be seen for how skilled it is. In a mainstream film this is almost unheard of nowadays - his role doesn't seems highlighted or showcased in anyway - he plays his small part exceeding well suggesting deep currents of unresolved bitterness. By the time you get to the ending you want to see a whole other movie about what may happen with him - that's how clearly he carved out his role.
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Post by Drish on Oct 5, 2019 10:48:32 GMT
Joaquin Phoenix - Joker
More like JoaKING Phoenix (I am so sorry for that but I really wanted to say it)
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 6, 2019 14:43:54 GMT
I watch I Married A Witch constantly - it's less than 80 minutes and it's so breezy and it has the sexiest and charmingly cutest woman ever in film - Veronica Lake - at ~20 years old before her alcoholism started eating her up. She is so totally appealing here it's almost dizzying, whether sliding down a banister (in pajamas) or sizing up situations like only a bad/good witch character like her Jennifer can. Her co-stars are the better actors - Oscar winners Frederic March and Susan Hayward - and she steals the movie from them so completely you wonder if March even likes girls (?) and why poor Hayward didn't just give up in the first 5 minutes. Happy Halloween:
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 7, 2019 9:42:00 GMT
In Landscape in The Mist my favorite Greek language film Michalis Zeke and Tania Palaiologou give heartbreakingly poignant and altogether natural child performances. The film itself is one of the masterpieces of 80s world cinema and should be seen - more than once - to fully grasp its political and personal themes.
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 8, 2019 9:12:42 GMT
I talk a lot (too much? ) about the Triple Crown of Acting - well the very first person to achieve it, Helen Hayes - is sort of greatish in Ghost Story - Alter Ego episodeLike most Ghost Story episodes it leans to making you feel better not scaring you really but Hayes has some genuinely scary reaction scenes and a moving sadness too in her portrayal......it's not great acting as much as it's just watching a legend be memorable........that'll do.
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Oct 8, 2019 11:54:27 GMT
That wacky joker fella.
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Post by JangoB on Oct 8, 2019 12:06:21 GMT
Holy shit, Jared Leto finally has a fan!
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Oct 8, 2019 18:37:31 GMT
Yum Jung-ah in A Tale of Two Sisters. Worst stepmother of 2003.
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 9, 2019 8:54:13 GMT
Of all the many amazing things Joaquin Phoenix does as Joker - one of the best is how he responds to others while trying to gauge reality from fantasy. The way he sneers at his colleague who provided him a gun.....or says incredulously "I got jumped, why would I steal his sign".........or changes tone to his mother when any truth is unclear to him.......one of his great lines is to the cops when he says almost child-like they said she had a stroke? where mundane reality interferes with his grander thoughts and how that sadness is reflected in how he responds to Thomas Wayne when confronted with facts he can't stand, comprehend or accept His laughter is eerily a howl of pain .......his howl of pain is coming in a lack of understanding about a world beyond understanding. When he walks into the glass door at the hospital it is reality vs appearance, joke vs pathetic sorrow, deceptive reflection vs. true reflection.......
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2019 12:37:19 GMT
Jada Pinkett in Set It Off - I felt overwhelmed by the cumulative power of her performance.
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 9, 2019 22:33:53 GMT
Peter Cushing - The Vorpal Blade - Tales of The Unexpected episodeHad never seen this and well it's not that good, but it's short (26 minutes), has a rather great twist at the end AND unnecessary nudity (!). Cushing's great face carries tremendous weight and I like spending time with him very much here indeed. Patricia Neal - Time of Terror - Ghost Story episodeThis is far better, written by Hammer main man Jimmy Sangster and Neal is aces here playing a woman slightly out of it she is actually helped by her real life, post-stroke condition - she seems otherworldly and distant, effectively so. Again, not very scary - Ghost Story rarely was - but very moving and I bet M. Night likes this a lot - because it is his schtick far earlier.
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Post by Mattsby on Oct 9, 2019 23:24:13 GMT
Patricia Neal - Time of Terror - Ghost Story episodeThis is far better, written by Hammer main man Jimmy Sangster and Neal is aces here playing a woman slightly out of it she is actually helped by her real life, post-stroke condition - she seems otherworldly and distant, effectively so. Again, not very scary - Ghost Story rarely was - but very moving and I bet M. Night likes this a lot - because it is his schtick far earlier. Oo I've seen this one! Actually well made, like edited well, a good score... and she's great, with all those close-ups of her just observing the hotel casino area. It captures that space in a simple but off, suspicious way and that's bc of Neal, it builds from her, and her gradual panicked thinking. Not big on the twist but worth it for Neal!
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 10, 2019 18:08:45 GMT
I decided to do a Marlon Brando double shot, 1989's A Dry White Season and 1990's The Freshman. These 2 performances, together sum up what was special about him and how when you look at them they are far more revealing than you might first think. In A Dry White Season he takes a small roles and completely fills it out to something like a Charles Dickens character of quirks - there is nothing lazy or slight about it. In The Freshman he creates such a sweet and gentle evocation of his Godfather role that it is lovely to watch - it's a comic creation that in him resonates. He had been gone for 9 years without a movie and this 1-2 punch in 1989/90 were in some ways the last "great" Brando (and Oscar nominated for A Dry White Season) we'd really see - although he did make some memorable appearances after it on film too. We won't see another like him that's for sure....
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Post by Longtallsally on Oct 10, 2019 20:09:38 GMT
Bette Davis in In This Our Life (1942)
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Post by Javi on Oct 10, 2019 23:01:59 GMT
Two by Sophia Loren. Two Women, one of my favorite movie star turns. Everyone remembers the tragic bits but she's actually very funny and alert during much of the movie. And she injects real wit to the (classic) dialogue. "He can't be a bad person, he's a fascist!" Or my personal favorite, her description of a communist: "a good fella who doesn't wanna work". And another great perf, in Ettore Scola's A Special Day with Mastroianni, where she plays a "normal" middle-aged woman with a deep inferiority complex. Even her physicality is different here... tired, despondent. The details in this performance as the character gradually comes alive are amazing. Anyway, hope her new movie is good and we get her back at the Oscars next year! Here she is with de Sica on set ( Two Women).
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Oct 11, 2019 9:25:40 GMT
Evan Peters as Kai Anderson, Andy Warhol, Marshall Applewhite, David Koresh, Jim Jones, Charles Manson and Jesus in American Horror Story Cult.
He was asked to run a gamut on that Season, and boy did he. It's its one of the great one Season TV performances and what a shame it is that it went so unrecognized. The Golden Globes and Emmys have thrown acting nominations at American Horror Story like candy over the years and they couldn't find room for him...I despair.
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 11, 2019 20:05:27 GMT
Chiwetel Ejiofor in Dirty Pretty Things (re-watch) - Marvelous social drama, that genuinely whips through its plot in a thrilling way but never seems to short-shrift what it's describing/illustrating. Ejiofor in one of his first roles is magnetic and yet easily watchable too - you think right along with him.
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Post by Mattsby on Oct 11, 2019 20:22:52 GMT
Evan Peters as Kai Anderson, Andy Warhol, Marshall Applewhite, David Koresh, Jim Jones, Charles Manson and Jesus in American Horror Story Cult.
He was asked to run a gamut on that Season, and boy did he. It's its one of the great one Season TV performances and what a shame it is that it went so unrecognized. The Golden Globes and Emmys have thrown acting nominations at American Horror Story like candy over the years and they couldn't find room for him...I despair. I've never seen AHS, maybe one day idk - but I like Evan Peters a lot. He has some Depp esque manner and I've said before should look at his career for a guide. He's in an awkward period right now I think - he can't play that young anymore at 32y/o yet he still evokes someone much younger - he can't play a family man yet for example.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Oct 11, 2019 20:31:21 GMT
In A Dry White Season he takes a small roles and completely fills it out to something like a Charles Dickens character of quirks - there is nothing lazy or slight about it. It's wonderful what he was able to do with such a small part but he's too good for such a small part. I wish the whole movie had been about his character. I felt short-changed!
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Oct 11, 2019 21:19:07 GMT
Evan Peters as Kai Anderson, Andy Warhol, Marshall Applewhite, David Koresh, Jim Jones, Charles Manson and Jesus in American Horror Story Cult.
He was asked to run a gamut on that Season, and boy did he. It's its one of the great one Season TV performances and what a shame it is that it went so unrecognized. The Golden Globes and Emmys have thrown acting nominations at American Horror Story like candy over the years and they couldn't find room for him...I despair. I've never seen AHS, maybe one day idk - but I like Evan Peters a lot. He has some Depp esque manner and I've said before should look at his career for a guide. He's in an awkward period right now I think - he can't play that young anymore at 32y/o yet he still evokes someone much younger - he can't play a family man yet for example. I recommend you give Cult a go then. It's the highlight of his career performance wise and almost completely independent of the other Seasons.
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 12, 2019 12:27:02 GMT
Amy Ryan - Rocket Man and Suite Sorrow episodes Law & Order Criminal IntentThe first is the same story but altered as Natalie Portman's "Lucy In The Sky" and Ryan is marvelous but she outdoes herself in the earlier, better written Suite Sorrow from Season 2 when the show really had it. Here she's sad, complicated, and genuinely frightening - and if anyone has ever seen this, she taps into the first sign of Vincent D'Onofrio's character weaknesses (unknowingly), that will later be overwritten into every episode but here, just where they are just hinted at, are seismic. One of the most memorable episodes
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Post by JangoB on Oct 13, 2019 0:19:17 GMT
2019 has proved to be a great year for leading actors. We've had the wonderful, in some cases career-best performances from the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio, Antonio Banderas, Joaquin Phoenix...And I've just seen a performance that is yet another great addition to that list: Pierfrancesco Favino in Marco Bellocchio's "The Traitor" is a wonder to behold. The movie itself reminded me of Sidney Lumet quite a bit so if you can picture the style of something like "Prince of the City" and imagine it in the cosa nostra world and in a digital visual presentation, you'll get a good idea of what the movie's like (the film is actually out there, if you get my drift, so you can check it out). Favino held my attention in a spectacular way and although the man we're seeing is undoubtedly a criminal, the main takeaway from the performance is the inner sense of nobility the man has about his days of cosa nostra and the deep sense of disappointment he feels about how the mafia's ways have shifted into ruthlessness and lack of principle. It's slightly similar to "The Leopard" in which Burt Lancaster elicits that feeling of realization that his breed of aristocrat is now a thing of the past. Loved Favino in this film.
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Post by MsMovieStar on Oct 13, 2019 8:39:36 GMT
Oh honeys, I'm watching Penny Dreadful (s1) for Halloween and I'm realising that Eva Green isn't just a pretty face. She's giving it her all in this. She's gone from gorgeous to gruesome in just a few episodes. How did she not get any Emmy love for this? On a side note, Josh Hartnett has just made number 432 on my bucket list.
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 13, 2019 21:18:08 GMT
Albert Finney - The Green Man - Re-watch Albert Finney playing a hard drinking playboy is almost too perfect and he's predictably aces here in a BBC TV film that he centers, grounds and easily excels in. A grown up ghost story that could have been better but is marred by some bad effects but still......there is much here to enjoy and almost all of them are from the great actor himself, slyly linking being haunted and haunted by yourself and memories too. Sometimes ghostly visions are the booze......sometimes.......not
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Post by Javi on Oct 13, 2019 21:25:49 GMT
Montgomery Clift in I Confess - Best performance in a Hitchcock film? I don't recall a better one in any case. And it seems like Hitch knows this because he holds on to it, which is extremely rare for him. That's where the suspense is this time--Clift's face. He plays a priest cornered by secrets from every side... and he can't let a single one out. Clift brings out the tense psychology of the character, hinting at the not-so-holy while keeping the aura of righteousness. Very memorable film thanks to him.
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