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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Aug 19, 2019 13:11:59 GMT
Michael Filipowich as William "Junior" Pierce in Mindhunter
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Post by stephen on Aug 19, 2019 15:45:52 GMT
Michael Filipowich as William "Junior" Pierce in Mindhunter Southern Jeremy Irons is the best.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2019 17:50:58 GMT
The Day Man’s work in Gangs of New York might still be my gold standard for a Hollywood blockbuster villain. (Literally) mustache twirling, larger than life, colorful and charismatic but distinctly human, nonetheless. All too familiar in rhetoric, at that. (Still wish the movie was about him and Priest Vallon instead.)
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Post by Longtallsally on Aug 22, 2019 20:11:23 GMT
Stéphane Audran in Wedding in Blood (1973)
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Post by Longtallsally on Aug 30, 2019 19:50:17 GMT
Paul Scofield in A Man For All Seasons (1966)
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Post by TerryMontana on Aug 31, 2019 21:22:58 GMT
The four main actors and actresses in A Streetcar Named Desire (Kim Hunter, Marlon Brando, Karl Malden) and especially Vivien Leigh in what I believe is one of the greatest female performances of all time!!!
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Post by Viced on Sept 1, 2019 0:09:32 GMT
The legend Pam Grier in Jackie Brown. A performance that is somehow badass, cool as hell, quietly desperate, and wistful all at once. Anyone that isn't in love with her by the end of the movie is a buffoon.
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Post by jimmalone on Sept 1, 2019 16:07:57 GMT
I really loved Albert Finney in "A Man of no Importance".
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 2, 2019 18:43:02 GMT
Personal favorite of mine on rewatch - great for Labor Day too - one of the best movies about working - Michael Caine in A Shock To The System. One of his very best performances sly, complicated, malevolent........charming.
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Post by Mattsby on Sept 2, 2019 19:27:47 GMT
Personal favorite of mine on rewatch - great for Labor Day too - one of the best movies about working - Michael Caine in A Shock To The System. One of his very best performances sly, complicated, malevolent........charming. love Shock... it's great all over, as a dark satire of both the workplace and in a certain transgressive way staving off a mid-life crisis and thru that amazing Caine perf, devil may care, winking ('what a shock') and a little frightening (subway).... Love the side characters and details, how so lost and carded off the John McMartin character is.... and it's so briskly smoothly well made I'm surprised it's not more popular, there's a lot of fun flavor to it. I showed it to one of my friends years ago and to this day he quotes that "Bring in the whole goddamn New York Knicks just to make sure your trash hits the basket!" line
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Post by TerryMontana on Sept 5, 2019 18:29:48 GMT
Rewatched A Man for All Seasons.
Wendy Hiller is great in it but Paul Scofield gives the performance of a lifetime.
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 5, 2019 19:26:34 GMT
Rewatched A Man for All Seasons. Wendy Hiller is great in it but Paul Scofield gives the performance of a lifetime. I've talked about Scofield before here and how this year may be the closest race for me between Scofield and Burton - just incredible performances. Scofield won the triple crown and this is his Oscar AND Tony winning role which is really rare and this scene which I've posted before is one of the great pieces of political text ever in film. The way he says the line "and you're j ust the man to do it" is one of film's great line readings. Think of it now - it applies to Trump and any Democratic presidential nominee at the same time. That's great writing.
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Post by TerryMontana on Sept 5, 2019 19:44:09 GMT
Rewatched A Man for All Seasons. Wendy Hiller is great in it but Paul Scofield gives the performance of a lifetime. I've talked about Scofield before here and how this year may be the closest race for me between Scofield and Burton - just incredible performances. Scofield won the triple crown and this is his Oscar AND Tony winning role which is really rare and this scene which I've posted before is one of the great pieces of political text ever in film. The way he says the line "and you're j ust the man to do it" is one of film's great line readings. Think of it now - it applies to Trump and any Democratic presidential nominee at the same time. That's great writing. I remember your post. That year, I would give the Oscar to Scofield, as well. Burton was fantastic (although I don't remember much of the film. Maybe another re-watch...) but Scofield's performance was colossal. Makes you think that if ever there was a guy who would rather die than admit a king's authority, it would be him. (yeah, the plot not that simple as I described it, I know )
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Sept 5, 2019 22:05:59 GMT
Scofield really did make it all seem so effortless didn't he. In that clip pacinoyes shared it's amazing how little Scofield appears to be doing (it's not really a theatrical performance in the typical sense and there isn't a hint of bombast to it) and yet it's so immediately and indisputably compelling. I love how measured he was in that film. How he's able to do so much by appearing to do so little, the amount of control he wields with just the sincerity and dignity in his eyes and voice. A born talent if ever there was one. My favorite bit of aforementioned clip is when Rich is leaving the room and More says, "Why Richard, you're shaking" without a hint of malice that's nevertheless utterly disarming. Scofield does it again at the trial scene, delivering the best line of the whole film again to Rich: "Why Richard, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales?" Brutal, just brutal. It's like he's educating a wayward child.
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 5, 2019 23:23:32 GMT
Working my way through some random Night Gallery episodes because well you can't start Halloween stuff too early. These are all re-watches but the last one I watched is one of the very best - "The Caterpillar" starring Laurence Harvey and the lovely Joanna Pettet. I guess people would find this corny now and that's because it's so famous an episode that they already know of it even if they haven't seen it. Personally I love it and Harvey is in marvelously foreboding form - it's all overheated and half-baked but that is the tone. You gotta go with it.......a personal fave..... Mattsby if you've never seen and stephen who I would assume would like this kind of story and may have seen it.
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 6, 2019 14:43:53 GMT
I did a poll recently "Best Actor Without An Oscar Who is Contending This Year" - Ian McKellen got no votes. Um....okay interesting theory......I hope that just means people don't think he's winning this year because there's not many better actors than him period, living certainly.
This is the best filmed version of Macbeth and the best portrayal of Macbeth (and Judi Dench is aces too here) - and some heavy hitters have taken a crack at it - and a piece of acting genius in this scene and I don't use that term lightly. Most actors go heavy on the beginning and end .......McKellen peaks here on "Life is but a walking shadow" not only does he add things by how he plays the text - he keeps he musicality of the text. I see something new in this performance every time I watch it.
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Post by Sharbs on Sept 6, 2019 14:48:41 GMT
all three are amazing in Luce. This is probably in Watts top-3 performances and could carry this film if she had to, but thankfully doesn't need to. Tim Roth is incredible and adds depth to a largely thankless role as pacinoyes said in the movie's thread. And welcome to the best young actor conversation to Kelvin Harrison Jr. Don't want to say why this performance is so good because it threatens to spoil the movie.
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Post by stephen on Sept 6, 2019 14:51:24 GMT
Bill Hader and James Ransone in It: Chapter Two. All of the adult actors did their child selves proud in this (even McAvoy, whose casting I was severely doubting from the onset), but these two in particular felt lifted from the page of the novel. They had such fantastic chemistry with their back-and-forths that I demand a Barry-esque series featuring these two in the future.
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Post by ibbi on Sept 6, 2019 18:48:18 GMT
Simon Pegg, Gugu Mbatha Raw, Anya Taylor-Joy, Taron Egerton, Helena Bonham Carter, Ralph Ineson, and Donna Kimball in The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance.
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 7, 2019 11:18:45 GMT
Christopher Plummer - RememberGenuinely great actor across all mediums at least - Triple Crown Winner too - in a sort of a purposely misleading, so-so trick film but it holds your interest and Plummer plays it with great horror and a stately glacial calm.
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 7, 2019 20:29:00 GMT
Melvyn Douglas - Ghost Story episode House of Evil - I wish these horror anthology shows were on now so you could get some of our better actors in a creepy old man settings/stories like Douglas does here (and John Ireland and Burl Ives did in Night Gallery) - I'm working my way through Ghost Story and Night Gallery for Halloween. A Triple Crown winner - Douglas is in very fine, obsessive form opposite a very young Jodie Foster in an ace story of how evil makes you lose your mind and the people closest to you. The best episode in the whole series. Douglas and Jodie Foster :
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Post by TerryMontana on Sept 11, 2019 20:19:27 GMT
Grace Kelly in Dial M for Murder.
Wonderful!!!!
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Post by Longtallsally on Sept 11, 2019 21:02:30 GMT
Orson Welles and Anthony Perkins in Ten Days Wonder (1971)
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Post by stephen on Sept 12, 2019 17:54:06 GMT
James Harkness and Kelly Macdonald in The Victim. Macdonald is suitably as excellent as always, but Harkness legitimately hits some all-time peaks for TV.
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 13, 2019 13:16:12 GMT
I've already covered classic horror TV with Night Gallery and Laurence Harvey and a Ghost Story episode with a great Melvyn Douglas.........now I just re-watched the famous episode of Boris Karloff's "Thriller" show - the episode Grim Reaper with an understated William Shatner. Ok, not really but the show is played at a hysterical pitch and he's the most subdued at least - it's a classic episode that incorporates malevolent Art, booze, ghost stories, hormones running wild etc. - this episode is 1961 and it has a lot in common with Hammer's classic Taste of Fear from the same year too. Paint a Pretty Picture.....
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