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Post by Mattsby on Jan 19, 2022 23:35:07 GMT
Happy 50th Bday to Drea de Matteo - she had a good thing going from '99 to '07 or so, from what I've seen....... Emmy win for The Sopranos where she just gets better every season, peaking with S5..... R Xmas (2001), a gem, where she's very tenderly toughly good in the lead, and Broken English (2007) where she has wonderful chemistry with Parker Posey.
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Post by Nikan on Jan 20, 2022 18:55:32 GMT
Awesome pick ^ I've been re-watching season one and want to give a shout out to John Heard who portrays an absolutely broken man in a relatively short screen-time (his only Emmy nomination). Also had starred in Home Alone and Awakenings.
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Post by Mattsby on Jan 20, 2022 19:34:40 GMT
Great pick. If you watch Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979) and Cutter's Way (1981) back to back you might be floored at the nerve and range of talent he's giving out.
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Post by Mattsby on Jan 20, 2022 19:44:18 GMT
Rentarō Mikuni would've been 99 today. Over 200 IMDb credits... He had a very long career, subverting his movie star looks early on, he was fairly daring an actor, often playing the villain, and filmmakers knew how to shape a story around his looming presence. He never worked with Kurosawa or Ozu, but he worked several times with: Oshima, Kon Ichikawa, Mikio Naruse, Juzo Itami, Imamura, Kinoshita, and Masaki Kobayashi for his most famous movies Kwaidan and best-perf Harakiri. He reminds me of a scarier De Niro sometimes - like in A Fugitive From the Past (1965), his crime epic.
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Post by Mattsby on Jan 28, 2022 1:43:26 GMT
I was watching a small, obscure movie the other day for Donald Pleasence... The Big Day (1960)... and came away from it looking up the standout in the cast, some actor named Harry H Corbett who it turns out was a tv star in the UK. He was acclaimed on the stage for a bit and one critic in the late '50s called him "the English Marlon Brando" actually. He started pulling off dark, villain parts (Nowhere to Go, Cover Girl Killer) but that soon changed - he was playing Macbeth at the Old Vic when he accepted a little ole show which turned out to be the massive hit Steptoe and Son (1962-74). Just in the newspaper today, I see Steptoe mentioned bc it was the source for Sanford and Son (which premiered 50 year ago this month). They even made a biopic of Steptoe/Harry Corbett - Jason Isaacs played him (and gotta BAFTA nom). He was also in Gilliam's Jabberwocky, fitting right in with the Monty Python troupe. His career lacks greater movies, but he seemed talented. Lots and lots of great tv appearances. He had these billiard-ball eyes, serious eyes - he knew exactly where to throw them to add a nuance to a line, and he had a very funny, slushy way with dialogue. Pacino might've watched his Steptoe performance to grab the cockney voice for Local Stigmatic.
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Post by Mattsby on Feb 17, 2022 3:05:03 GMT
Murray Hamilton - an actor most people don't realize they've seen in several classics. He has some very good little parts in Anatomy of a Murder, The Hustler, Seconds, The Graduate (stands alongside the best of cast, Nichols replaced Gene Hackman during rehearsals for him), and Jaws of course. He aced those suited-and-unscrupulous kinda roles. He appeared in nearly a hundred different tv shows.... Twilight Zone S1E2 as Death.... Hitchcock Presents, Night Gallery, Rich Man Poor Man, Kojak, and a funny spot in S1 of Golden Girls in 1986, the year he passed away. He was also Tony nominated in '64 and was on Broadway a bunch. I think he had sharper talent than we ever got to see, idk if he's ever had so much as a co-lead in the movies?
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Post by ibbi on Feb 25, 2022 23:53:04 GMT
Sally Kellerman, who died yesterday. One of the Altman superstars, who used her wonderful voice to tremendous impact years after her prime narrating one of the great Burns docs (Not for Ourselves Alone) and obviously iconic on account of MASH, from which she’s the first of the principle players to depart. Sad day.
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Post by Mattsby on Mar 27, 2022 18:39:42 GMT
Garfield with De NiroAllen Garfield who died two years ago of covid..... He worked with a lot of great filmmakers. Altman, Polanski, Woody Allen, Beatty, Friedkin, Wenders, Wilder, Milos, Tarantino, De Palma 3x , Coppola 3x. He even sort of mocked Coppola in his State of Things perf - "You don't look like a director: you don't impress me over coffee." He could ace the smug chip-on-shoulder role (The Conversation) but I kinda liked him best in comedy and wish he did more of it, in his goofier side he impressed a really hilarious and strange and witty way with actor chemistry. Hi Mom, Get to Know Your Rabbit, Brinks Job, etc.
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Post by Nikan on Jun 3, 2022 14:56:36 GMT
The unforgettable Herbert Lom. kinda Sucks that the one nomination he ever received was for a random razzie...
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Post by Mattsby on Jul 10, 2022 23:01:20 GMT
L Q Jones ...born Justus McQueen, passed away yesterday 94 y/o. Most known for being in all those Peckinpah movies, they collaborated like seven times. He's very good in Buchanan Rides Alone (1958), with some great lines, like a funny, memorable eulogy to a buddy. He's in some really underrated movies like Anthony Mann's Men in War (1957), Warlock (1959), and was always a welcome presence later on... Casino, The Edge (where he has some terrific moments), and his last movie, Altman's last, A Prairie Home Companion where LQ plays the aged out vet of the show, a deeply moving little perf.
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Post by Mattsby on Jul 28, 2022 19:14:02 GMT
Mary Alice , Tony winner, Emmy winner. Although kinda typecast in the mother role - Women of Brewster Place, The Inkwell, Sunshine State, Down in the Delta, To Sleep with Anger, etc... She was always good in them and even better than that the bigger the role was, like Delta and especially To Sleep with Anger. And she's superb in her first leading part, on PBS, The Sty of the Blind Pig (1974). I've never seen her give a false note on screen, she's immediately likable and warm, but I also think there was more there we never got to see. Did she miss out on any really big parts? She showed up here and there on some big tv shows - Sanford and Son, Good Times, A Different World, Cosby, Oz. Worked with De Palma, Clint Eastwood, John Sayles, Spike Lee, Charles Burnett.... I wonder why she stopped the movies, she's still alive at 78 but hasn't done a movie since The Matrix 3 (2003) where she's kinda badass. RIP 80y/o. Among my fav actresses, maybe one of most underrated ever. Sty, directed by Ivan Dixon (!), is on Youtube, where she plays an obituary writer.... it's like a filmed play, the highlight is an astounding ten minute "prayer" soliloquy from her.... and you get an idea what seeing her on stage must've been like ....she was the original cast of Fences opposite James Earl Jones, and won a Tony for it. Other than the movies already mentioned, I'll add the cast-stacked The Killing Floor (1984) where she gets a few scenes and she's great, of course, adding all sorts of surprising nuance.
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Post by Nikan on Sept 11, 2022 18:21:24 GMT
A Shout out to Bill Duke, who steals the show in Predator... always like it when he shows up here and there.
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Post by popperthekungfudragn on Sept 28, 2022 10:51:00 GMT
Robert Costanzo James Rebhorn Ed Lauter James Lew Victor Wong Steven Gilborn
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 29, 2023 0:28:22 GMT
Udo Kier is pretty weirdly compelling in Hunters Season 2 - I'm not deluding myself that this show is great Art - it's not - but it is batshit watchable as hell - especially this year which totally is better than s1 ..........and Kier is something else here........what a wacky, wonderful, long career he's had........from Suspiria '77, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne and so many other screen credits.......
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Post by getclutch on May 4, 2023 2:43:07 GMT
Michelle Johnson hit a home run from the get-go with Blame It on Rio. However, she quickly faded away. She also nearly landed a role in Carlito’s Way which went to Penelope Ann Miller. Not sure as to why she was not given another opportunity?
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Post by Mattsby on May 4, 2023 3:06:36 GMT
Michael Jeter who's never really talked about.... He was a unique character actor for a while, and died at 50y/o. He balanced likable/unlikable roles really expertly, he was often vivid, often funny..... he worked a lot, won a Tony in 1990 (Grand Hotel), an Emmy in 1992 (Evening Shade). 90s kids will recognize him from a bunch of movies. I love his affecting, charming perfs in The Green Mile and Welcome to Collinwood. He's insanely memorable in The Fisher King.
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Post by Nikan on Sept 5, 2023 20:13:46 GMT
Edward Everett Horton. Dude was everywhere in the 30s and all he "won" was a Walk of Fame star in 1960.
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Post by Nikan on Sept 5, 2023 20:20:14 GMT
Also I've noticed Oscar-nominee Dan O'Herlihy in Fail Safe, Robocop and Halloween 3: Season of the Witch, which isn't very good at all... but he kinda is.
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Post by SeanJoyce on Sept 13, 2023 2:02:36 GMT
Also I've noticed Oscar-nominee Dan O'Herlihy in Fail Safe, Robocop and Halloween 3: Season of the Witch, which isn't very good at all... but he kinda is. Season of the Witch is awesome, I don't know what you're talking about. But he's the best part of Fail Safe and strangely found himself competing in a loaded '54 Best Actor field for Robinson Crusoe...directed by Luis Buñuel of all people, but I hated it.
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Post by HELENA MARIA on Mar 30, 2024 19:59:55 GMT
Elizabeth Reaser Carrie Coon (to some extent) Lily Rabe (had no idea that she was the daughter of another underrated actress : the late & great Jill Clayburgh) Sam Claflin Jack O'Connell Brendan Fraser (I know he was won an Oscar but still the man has been grossly underused those past 10/15 years)
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Post by forksforest on Apr 3, 2024 1:54:07 GMT
Walton Goggins. Has me in a chokehold with his ability to be fully absorbed into the fibers of a character - he lived and breathed Boyd Crowder during the Justified run. I wish he were more appreciated (happy that he will be in White Lotus), but maybe that would ruin the magic.
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