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Post by TerryMontana on Jul 22, 2019 20:24:53 GMT
Just rewatched Manhunter (1986) after about 17 years. Cox's personification of Hannibal was really something. He had a tiny role and made so much out of it.
Of course playing a now iconic cinematic character helped in order for me to be surprised by his performance. If there was no other Hannibal in movies or television after that, I probably wouldn't pay so much attention.
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Post by Longtallsally on Jul 22, 2019 20:58:04 GMT
Jean-Claude Brialy in The Cousins (1959)
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 24, 2019 16:08:50 GMT
I watched Bette Davis again (twice in less than a year now) in The Nanny - love her work here, this is an essential Hammer film.
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Post by TerryMontana on Jul 29, 2019 9:49:08 GMT
De Niro in the King of Comedy (rewatch).
I thought this was one of his top 5 performances ever.
Now I'm sure it is!!!
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Post by stabcaesar on Jul 29, 2019 11:12:44 GMT
Ingrid Bergman, Gaslight
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 29, 2019 13:33:21 GMT
Re-watched Gian Maria Volonte in Open Doors (1990)- the great actor's tour de force of precision and internalized acting control. This can stand with some of the best world cinema performances of the entire 90s.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 31, 2019 1:00:23 GMT
James Gandolfini - Unidentified Black Males episode of The Sopranos This is an amazing episode performance - he has to cover so much ground in this one it's kind of spectacular - every scene he has here is a triumph - a panic attack which he later describes brilliantly in his therapy - and remembers the incident that lead to his cousin going to jail being the highlight. The love for his cousin (Steve Buscemi - great here "Put me innnnnnn coach"), almost taking Meadow's boyfriend's head off for paying the dinner tab, telling Carmela "you deserve shit" in the divorce...and most stunning to me - his sly acting in how he lies to Johnny Sack's face at a funeral. I don't know if it's fair for me to cherry pick an episode of Gandolfini's but if you come across it again it's one to study - this was really brilliant character work.
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Post by JangoB on Jul 31, 2019 10:55:07 GMT
Bob Hoskins in "Mona Lisa" was really as wonderful as advertised. This is a rich performance in which he at first excels at humor by effortlessly portraying the unassuming tackiness of the character and then places multiple layers upon him, revealing his tenderness and rage which seem to coexist within him at a dangerous proximity to each other. Hoskins of course famously demolished the awards season with his performance winning pretty much everything in sight - the Cannes Best Actor prize, the Golden Globe, the BAFTA, both the LA and NY critics and some other stuff - but was then snubbed only by the Academy the members of which decided to correct their mistakes that year and gave the award to Paul Newman who didn't even show up to give them their big TV moment. Cathy Tyson was really excellent in the movie too.
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Post by Longtallsally on Aug 1, 2019 20:29:48 GMT
Fernando Rey in The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
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Post by Longtallsally on Aug 3, 2019 15:01:30 GMT
James Cagney in White Heat
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 4, 2019 17:39:01 GMT
Sergio CastellittoVery great - world class actor, and here in Raise Your Head he is great in a film that would get by with a far lesser performance. He can break your heart with the slightest of actor moves - and he can play big things in small ways. Seems to want to direct more for some reason last I heard but always marvel at him ....... cherry68 because I don't know anyone else in Italy on the board who may have seen it?
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Post by cherry68 on Aug 4, 2019 19:24:29 GMT
Sergio CastellittoVery great - world class actor, and here in Raise Your Head he is great in a film that would get by with a far lesser performance. He can break your heart with the slightest of actor moves - and he can play big things in small ways. Seems to want to direct more for some reason last I heard but always marvel at him ....... cherry68 because I don't know anyone else in Italy on the board who may have seen it? No sorry, I haven't seen this movie. I heard some people were disappointed for the second half though, because it got rethoric tones. Maybe you could ask caugusto or wilcinema or fujiwara fan (Italian posters on this board I'm aware of).
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Post by JangoB on Aug 5, 2019 10:19:02 GMT
I was truly impressed by Catherine Deneuve in "Tristana" recently. Bunuel's significant time jumps present the story in a somewhat fractured, right-to-the-point kind of way (and I don't mean that as a negative - merely a description) which gives us fragments of Tristana's gradual transformation and the effect is striking. Supported not only by this method of storytelling but also by subtle, non-fussy and yet notable makeup work, Deneuve shows Tristana's developing alienation and simultaneous realization of self-control in a wonderful mixture. Even a slight glance she might give in the latter part of the picture causes distress and discomfort, and yet somehow she keeps us on her side because the glimpses of that hopeful young woman who has been mistreated and abused are always there, even though she has been stripped away of her innocence. At once pure and quietly feral, her Tristana is a performance to remember. And all that despite the Spanish dubbing - this really is one of those great acting accomplishments where the eyes and the face say more than any words ever could. She's the primary reason why the film sticks with you even though at first it might seem a touch too formal in its approach.
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Post by Archie on Aug 5, 2019 16:12:17 GMT
Margot Kidder in Black Christmas.
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Aug 7, 2019 0:25:11 GMT
Isabelle Huppert in La Separation (1994) Here, Huppert doesn't just act distant and disaffected toward Auteuil's character, she's also able to suggest a believable history of love between these two and an incremental process of emotional withdrawal that has culminated to this point... you can derive so much information just through watching her facial expressions here. The early scene when they have lunch is particularly great - you see her face seamlessly move through a range of intermingling emotions. She simultaneously conveys detachment, annoyance, masked distress, and affection... all in the span of one scene. One of her finest performances...
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Aug 8, 2019 7:15:10 GMT
I hadn't watched this film in such a long time before giving it a second whirl a few days ago, and I had forgotten how great Jamie Bell was in it. I'm so pleased he took home that BAFTA.
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Post by Longtallsally on Aug 8, 2019 20:35:03 GMT
Michel Bouquet in The Unfaithful Wife
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Post by Drish on Aug 9, 2019 14:47:14 GMT
I am in love with her, this show and her performance in this. This is a rare kind of performance which is sooo campy, yet very restraint when she needs to be and above all, funny as hell. Very few actresses (that I've seen) manage to take on SUCH an over the top character and make it soo much fun to watch which can easily come off super annoying. I know Bette Davis is so good at it, I loved Julianne Moore in Maps to the Stars and of course Vera Farmiga who is the light of Bates Motel. She literally goes from 1 to 100 in a millisecond (watch from 2:52 for one of my favorite scenes of the show ) and it still feels real. She IS Norma Bates, the screaming, crying, laughing, crazy, childlike Norma Bates and she totally makes you fall in love with her. I've become a huge fan of hers after this and I am so happy I watched Bates Motel, one of the best TV shows I've seen. And Freddie Highmore is amazing too.
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Post by TerryMontana on Aug 10, 2019 6:36:56 GMT
Pacino in Scarface.
Not even in his top 10 imo but an iconic performance nevertheless.
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 10, 2019 13:26:41 GMT
Another mention of Gandolfini for "Sopranos Home Movies" - a tour de force of personal fear, needling black comic menace, profound weakness, psychological insight into aging, the male role and place. Just the way he backs away from the window when he first sees Bobby after their incident alone would be impressive - instead it's that one move a million times in a million ways and believable - he not only makes you feel it, he shows you why he's feeling it too. Sitting on the edge - one of the great visual cues in this show - Tony is stable on land, the moral morass is the water deceptively tranquil and serene - it looks peaceful, it's horrible.
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Aug 12, 2019 15:57:26 GMT
Linda Blair in The Exorcist.
I know we have to acknowledge the amazing contribution that Mercedes McCambridge made to possessed Regan, but it shouldn't lessen the praise that Blair is worthy of for what she does in the second half of this film. In addition to that, she is damn good and completely natural and believable in the early stages of the film too. It's a truly great performance.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Aug 14, 2019 23:47:26 GMT
Liza Minnelli as the unstable, needy, insecure perpetual outsider Pookie Adams in The Sterile Cuckoo. This particular scene really got me. She's on the phone with her increasingly distant boyfriend trying to get him to let her come visit. She's already started to drive him away with her constant need for validation and attention but it's really heartbreaking seeing her in this scene. She does a lot of acting with her eyes and face, full and desperation and loneliness, and you can sense that conflict in her and relate to it: feeling a loved one drawing away from you and knowing in some part it's because of your own behavior but still compulsively trying to reach out and grasp for that connection. The film is billed as a quirky romantic comedy but it's seriously depressing, and Pookie basically ends up in the same place she starts--alone and in a perpetual state of arrested development.
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 17, 2019 18:21:10 GMT
Ray Sharkey - The IdolmakerMarvelous performance by a guy who was like the Peter Greene of his day in a way but hung on (in his work not life) longer. Hard to know how good he could have been if he stayed off the dope but he's basically made for this role.
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 19, 2019 9:40:51 GMT
A rewatch of Blue Jasmine - and um yeah it's like saying Brando is great it's so obviously true but doesn't begin to cover it - they should have invented awards for this work and given her those too. Blanchett is so expert here (Hawkins is great also) and honestly there's enough big scenes for multiple great performances within this performance. So many things are being done here - from her use of voice modulation, to how she uses her sexuality (there's a great scene in her kitchen where she uses it on a cheating, uninterested Baldwin and fails that is heartbreaking)............... from her posture (defeated, flattened or conversely prideful, arrogant) to her voice inflections when she speaks to herself and at other times outwards etc. The ending scene is below, so stop to avoid spoilers. devoid of vanity in how she uses her voice "I saw Danny, he's getting married" is outward to a non-existing Baldwin - and she almost realizes it too as she reconstructs what happened in the now with the fragments of what she selectively remembers This scene - which alone won her everything - has one of the single best line readings I've seen in recent years "It's so obvious what you're doing" spoken partially to herself too (ie she's the secret in a way - she knows what she did) from one side of her mouth then when she raises her head and continues her eyes are now more teary eyed as and she has further lost the plot of where she "was" in her own life.
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Post by TerryMontana on Aug 19, 2019 11:28:36 GMT
A rewatch of Blue Jasmine - and um yeah it's like saying Brando is great it's so obviously true but doesn't begin to cover it - they should have invented awards for this work and given her those too.They should have done that for pretty much everything she's been in... You knew I was going to answer, didn't you??
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