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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 30, 2024 20:04:22 GMT
Sean Penn in Asphalt City (2023 / 2024)Not sure this is a "great" performance it's more like a very good one in a not very good film - that is unsparingly bleak af and quite tresome imo......... Penn is utterly ravaged - his face looking at times like a Death Mask - and convincing here which is good because the movie is not ........it's absurdly stylized and gritty and Tye Sheridan can't sell me on this either (sometimes he resembles a try-hard Andy Samberg ffs) Penn however has some dynamite scenes if the performance can't "sustain" greatness...I particularly love his final scene - covered in a hoodie and talking philosophically dour while smiling .....nearly laughing.....nearly....crazy....murderous.......quite sad...... Will Sean Penn ever be majorly great again? ............ Maybe........maybe
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 10, 2024 6:40:54 GMT
Bette Davis in A Stolen Life (1946) - rewatchDavis at her most soapy and showy as twins........I hadn't seen this in a long time and Davis has much fun chewing on some pretty snappy dialog ("I couldn't tell a Rembrandt from a Renoir!") that you can picture her just pouring over to milk as ironic character effect.......and not merely throwaways Not a great movie but kind of greatish if you watch it in context of its batshit Hollywood time and type in the context of its star..........fascinating in watching her do what she does and delineates this stunt for maximum Davis impact.... Side note: Also one sister is named Kate Bosworth.....which was ahead of its time really
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Apr 13, 2024 3:41:10 GMT
Ray Liotta and Jason Patric in Narc. Both driven and controlled by their trauma. Liotta with aggression and hair-trigger violence, and Patric keeping everything bottled up and letting is fester. Liotta maintains a surface intensity while just occasionally letting his old self crack through. His scene reminiscing about his wife to Patric in the car is really nice. And Patric plays things mostly understated but letting us know that everything he’s dealing with is bubbling up to the surface and ready to burst.
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 17, 2024 6:23:38 GMT
Renette Soutendijk in Sweet Dreams (2023)Soutendijk is very memorable in a film I love - Paul Verhoeven's great The Fourth Man (1983) and this movie - sort of The Favourite with a colonialist angle give her a kind of dazzling late career role. When things unravel Soutendijk kind of breaks your heart and balances the implicit horror-humor in the role at various points earlier too.......a complex - almost imperceptibly delicate piece of acting in a pretty good film too.......
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 18, 2024 15:53:14 GMT
Gustaw Holoubek in Noose (1958) - rewatchI reviewed this movie a couple of years ago on MAR very briefly but it is, quite simply one of the most precise portraits of alcoholism put on film - along with The Fire Within one of the bleakest Holoubek's suffering has a gnawing, increasing power.......insanely underseen on MAR I think
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 19, 2024 14:37:27 GMT
Humphrey Bogart in Conflict (1945) - rewatch One of Bogart's most underrated turns - and actually, it is performances like this that make me rank him as (by far) my favorite pre-Brando American actor.....Bogart is - at times - genuinely frightening here - and he doesn't soften this monster at all. Some people may roll their eyes when they see Bogart placed among the very greatest Ameican film actors - well, I'm telling you I can easily make the case for him outside of the "modern" big ~ 7 Brando, DePac, Nicholson, Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, Newman and I see what would follow from them all within this minor, but fascinating Bogart performance.
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Post by urbanpatrician on Apr 19, 2024 19:08:38 GMT
Humphrey Bogart in Conflict (1945) - rewatch One of Bogart's most underrated turns - and actually, it is performances like this that make me rank him as (by far) my favorite pre-Brando American actor.....Bogart is - at times - genuinely frightening here - and he doesn't soften this monster at all. Some people may roll their eyes when they see Bogart placed among the very greatest Ameican film actors - well, I'm telling you I can easily make the case for him outside of the "modern" big ~ 7 Brando, DePac, Nicholson, Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, Newman and I see what would follow from them all within this minor, but fascinating Bogart performance. You know what........ I don't see Nicholson, Hoffman, or Hackman fans not wanna include Bogart in that list. I don't think DeNiro and Pacino fans are the fiercest non Bogarters either. Most Bogart haters are guys who don't like old Hollywood....... mostly the TheyShootPictures guys. I saw Conflict too. I liked him in it.
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 19, 2024 20:02:17 GMT
Humphrey Bogart in Conflict (1945) - rewatch One of Bogart's most underrated turns - and actually, it is performances like this that make me rank him as (by far) my favorite pre-Brando American actor.....Bogart is - at times - genuinely frightening here - and he doesn't soften this monster at all. Some people may roll their eyes when they see Bogart placed among the very greatest Ameican film actors - well, I'm telling you I can easily make the case for him outside of the "modern" big ~ 7 Brando, DePac, Nicholson, Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, Newman and I see what would follow from them all within this minor, but fascinating Bogart performance. You know what........ I don't see Nicholson, Hoffman, or Hackman fans not wanna include Bogart in that list. I don't think DeNiro and Pacino fans are the fiercest non Bogarters either. Most Bogart haters are guys who don't like old Hollywood....... mostly the TheyShootPictures guys.I saw Conflict too. I liked him in it. Yeah, to me if you are doing a top 10 American film actors list - you have to come up with reasons to leave Bogart and Stewart out of that top 10 - because there are actually NOT 10 American film actors that you can "easily" rank within a top 10 off the top of your head imo.......... I mean it's all opinion - but you have to at least consider them because Bogart and Stewart have - almost inarguably - the highest amount of classic films - that have stood for the longest periods of time etc......You have to at least consider them as either ahead or in the conversation with every post 1970s actor class imo ........and that's at the very least.......
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 20, 2024 11:28:22 GMT
Anthony Hopkins in The Father (2020) - rewatch As far as I can tell - the greatest movie performance by an actor in his 80s or higher.........ever I said this before when I reviewed this or whenever I talk about Hopkins - he is one of the great acting "listeners" of all time.....and in this movie has a role that makes his habit (or choice) of always hesitating before he responds seem like the sign of either a decreasing mind or .........at times........... a cruelly calculating one
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 24, 2024 9:23:08 GMT
Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke (1967) rewatchBeyond iconic.......maybe not even in his top 2.......maybe not among the greatest male performances of the 60s (like say Hud is) even ......but one of the great movie star performance ever - by an actor fully in command of how to convey his character to a mass audience within his own singular gifts
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Post by Nikan on Apr 24, 2024 10:18:19 GMT
Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke (1967) rewatchBeong iconic.......maybe not even in his top 2.......maybe not among the greatest male performances of the 60s )like say Hud is) even ......but one of the great movie star performance ever - by an actor fully in command of how to convey his character to a mass audience within his own singular gifts The scene where he's listening to some lady sitting in the car (was it his mother?) and just reflecting on what was being said to himself... is perhaps my favorite Newman moment ever.
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Apr 25, 2024 5:21:44 GMT
Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke (1967) rewatchBeyond iconic.......maybe not even in his top 2 What would your top 5 for him look like? Something like The Verdict, Hud, Cool Hand Luke, and The Hustler? (What would be the fifth one?)
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 25, 2024 6:11:59 GMT
Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke (1967) rewatchBeyond iconic.......maybe not even in his top 2 What would your top 5 for him look like? Something like The Verdict, Hud, Cool Hand Luke, and The Hustler? (What would be the fifth one?) Probably Nobody's Fool .......which is sort of a Newman summary performance of what he did so effortlessly ........I think Hombre is a fairly excellent performance - maybe deseeves that spot.........and he's got a lot ........but just to sort of give a career arc set of 5 ........Nobody's Fool fits in so well with those big 4 ^ .......
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Post by PromNightCarrie on Apr 28, 2024 18:55:45 GMT
I watched I, Tonya for the first time today and I must say I ate up Alison Janney's ruthless but hilarious performance as the mother. I looked up the film later and found out that she won an Oscar for it? That's so awesome. Good for her. I've always thought she was a brilliant actress.
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Post by Weaver Addict on Apr 28, 2024 20:35:32 GMT
Felicity Huffman in Out of Order aired on Showtime in 2003/2004? I know most people associate her with Desperate Housewives and her brilliant Oscar nominated performance in Transamerica (my pick for Best Actress). Also check her out in Aaron Sorkins Sport Night (ABC). That whole show should have a slew of Emmys. I don't have the words to describe what she does here like some of you do (learning disability rears its ugly head) but I will let the performance speak for itself. Absolutely amazing. She has got a wide range. And she is married to William H Macy (one of my faves) so she is the bomb. link
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Post by Weaver Addict on Apr 28, 2024 20:53:31 GMT
Thank you Prom Queen Carrie for reminding me of a movie I have been wanting to see but other movies on my list have pushed it further down. That picture of Alison Janey (love this woman) puts it right back in top 5 of must sees.
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Post by Weaver Addict on Apr 28, 2024 21:43:40 GMT
Anthony Hopkins in The Father (2020) - rewatch As far as I can tell - the greatest movie performance by an actor in his 80s or higher.........ever I said this before when I reviewed this or whenever I talk about Hopkins - he is one of the great acting "listeners" of all time.....and in this movie has a role that makes his habit (or choice) of always hesitating before he responds seem like the sign of either a decreasing mind or .........at times........... a cruelly calculating one Another movie that needs to move up on my MUST SEE lists. I adore Hopkins. Incredibly sexy in 1978's Magic and another Wow performance.
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Post by stephen on Apr 29, 2024 1:21:48 GMT
Perpetually peppy with a sadistic edge that cuts through his company-man persona, Enrico Colantoni's Bob is an absolute delight in Caitlin Cronenberg's debut film Humane.
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Post by Nikan on Apr 29, 2024 16:18:25 GMT
The whole Marat/Sade department; notably Patrick Magee, Ian Richardson and Glenda Jackson.
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