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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 2, 2024 8:44:28 GMT
Keith Kupferer in Ghostlight (2024)Very fine, calibrated and delineated performance - in a really (I mean, REALLY) small movie in a year full of bigger overhyped trainwrecks.......also a performance and movie that sneaks up on you and packs a bit of a resonant punch you maybe wouldn't think it has at first ![](https://imengine.public.prod.pdh.navigacloud.com/?uuid=674fbf14-28f1-5c82-b8bd-db5a4fd16aa1&type=preview&function=cover&height=609&width=800)
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 4, 2024 9:03:32 GMT
Florinda Bolkan in Le Orme (Footprints on the Moon) - (1975) - rewatch but it's been a long time Quite an interesting jumble puzzle of a film - that initially plays as incoherent - but if you see it with an open mind, becomes quite terrifying and isolating too - you mirror her mental state....it makes a "kind" of sense even if not all of it seems explainable...still this is a bit of trash ...........and how good it is depends on how you read - and how much you read - into it Sort of like Censor in that way - and in that the central character is haunted by a film (in Censor it's "films........ and a life event") - in this case a sci-fi movie she saw (?) as a child and like in Censor the film(s) bleed into her reality......... gorgeously photographed by Vittorio Storaro no less (!) - and you can actually understand the very fuzzy plot just through his compositions .......... it involves the proto-Memento / Oldboy angle of trying to restructure a missing piece of time......... It certainly does capture a very specific kind of dread - what do you do when your mind "turns" on you and no one can help? .........and Bolkan is a terrific guide through this terrain - a repressed, kind of sexual timebomb here..........you feel for her............and feel scared of her too..........she plays this as part stoned zombie, part over-caffeinated control freak If you take the opening of this movie and the ending scenes it kind of is like a wacky, lesser Seconds or Images - in that it tells a whole story just in those indelible images ........words get in the way anyway........they sure do for Bolkan.........but so does the disconnect of mind, body, time........ and the fjlm can oddly be called a giallo (sort of), a psychological horror,a mystery, a hidden gem or utter nonsense.........the ending seems simultaneously completely obvious, awesome and quite confusing all at once ![:laugh:](//storage.proboards.com/6692321/images/30ulL7PvEvGt97femFHx.gif) ![](https://roxie.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Gialloween-footprints1-jpg.webp)
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 5, 2024 9:30:09 GMT
Jeff Bridges in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) - rewatchUniquely American character - and performance - right down to hs ordering of "American Fries, you got American Fries?"........Clint Eastwood is marvelous too.......... but Bridges is absolutely unforgettable in a great 4th of July movie........ ![](https://cinematicrandomness.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/ThunderBolt-and-Lightfoot-FM002.png)
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 7, 2024 10:11:39 GMT
Yang Kuei-mei, Chen Chao-jung and Lee Kang-sheng in Vive L'Amour (1994) - rewatch Sort of like the funniest movie Antonioni never made .........but also the most sorrowful movie Jarmusch never made Impeccably staged and played ...... ![](https://statcdn.fandango.com/MPX/image/NBCU_Fandango/328/547/thumb_EFBABDA8-8FE8-46CC-ADD3-76C515517578.jpg)
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Post by JangoB on Jul 8, 2024 1:18:32 GMT
Rutger Hauer in The Legend of the Holy Drinker... Holy drinker, you say? More like Holy Fuck ![:eek:](//storage.proboards.com/6692321/images/cbungJltNj775_PictjM.gif) Breathtaking and heartbreaking. ![](https://images.mubicdn.net/images/film/32913/cache-23308-1709735237/image-w1280.jpg?size=800x)
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Post by stabcaesar on Jul 9, 2024 19:25:58 GMT
![](https://24.media.tumblr.com/f270ef958ad47cb838f29153610e0045/tumblr_mg60lriWE11rjqtkto1_500.gif) Quite simply a complete miracle of a performance for such an old film.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 12, 2024 11:07:03 GMT
One of the great performances of all time........arguably....... the greatest female performance of all time actually.......and one of the most achingly precise and specific ![](https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1200/1*SRP4XlSU5ApW0vSQFd_Upg.png)
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 12, 2024 20:55:41 GMT
Maika Monroe & Nicolas Cage in LonglegsHow many Great actors are in conic horror flicks? Not many.......well Cage is in at least a few you could argue and he is waaaaaaaaaaaaay out on a limb here......loved how go for break this is.......compare this to Ethan Hawke in The Black Phone......pffft Monroe who I once compared to Jessica Lange ffs (for Watcher) already has 1 horror classic (It Follows) and is her usual smart, sharp self......and does a GREAT move here of "swallowing" .....even while just breathing .......some things are hard to swallow after all.......she does it so much she appears to be gasping ......close to vomiting maybe.........she also flattens her voice out in a way that mimics where the movie is headed.......uncommonly intelligent actress........ ![](https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Maika-Monroe-Nicolas-Cage.jpg?w=681&h=383&crop=1)
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Post by stephen on Jul 12, 2024 21:02:15 GMT
Maika Monroe & Nicolas Cage in LonglegsHow many Great actors are in conic horror flicks? Not many.......well Cage is in at least a few you could argue and he is waaaaaaaaaaaaay out on a limb here......loved how go for break this is.......compare this to Ethan Hawke in The Black Phone......pffft Monroe who I once compared to Jessica Lange ffs (for Watcher) already has 1 horror classic (It Follows) and is her usual smart, sharp self......and does a GREAT move here of "swallowing" .....even while just breathing .......some things are hard to swallow after all.......she does it so much she appears to be gasping ......close to vomiting maybe.........she also flattens her voice out in a way that mimics whiere the movie is headed.......uncommonly intelligent actress........ I am a little sad you didn't mention the excellent work from Kiernan Shipka (which truly belongs in the hall of fame for demented one-scene wonders) and Alicia Witt, whom I never would've expected to fall into the category of puritanical horror but fits like a glove. It feels like Perkins has been building up to doing his own take on Salem-era witchery with the last three films -- I need him to make it happen already.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 12, 2024 21:19:23 GMT
Maika Monroe & Nicolas Cage in LonglegsHow many Great actors are in conic horror flicks? Not many.......well Cage is in at least a few you could argue and he is waaaaaaaaaaaaay out on a limb here......loved how go for break this is.......compare this to Ethan Hawke in The Black Phone......pffft Monroe who I once compared to Jessica Lange ffs (for Watcher) already has 1 horror classic (It Follows) and is her usual smart, sharp self......and does a GREAT move here of "swallowing" .....even while just breathing .......some things are hard to swallow after all.......she does it so much she appears to be gasping ......close to vomiting maybe.........she also flattens her voice out in a way that mimics whiere the movie is headed.......uncommonly intelligent actress........ I am a little sad you didn't mention the excellent work from Kiernan Shipka (which truly belongs in the hall of fame for demented one-scene wonders) and Alicia Witt, whom I never would've expected to fall into the category of puritanical horror but fits like a glove. It feels like Perkins has been building up to doing his own take on Salem-era witchery with the last three films -- I need him to make it happen already. Yes........It's extremely well played down to the smallest role.......Witt is an actress I have always found incredibly attractiniie (I sat thru 88 Minutes 3 times and it wasn't for Big Al ffs)........and there's some Piper Laurie in, um, reverse to her here....and yeah didn't see it when she was on Criminal Intent making me all hormonal etc
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 13, 2024 19:55:51 GMT
Nina Foch in My Name is Julia Ross (1945)One of my favorite ludicrous films that I always watch if I come across it.........I've seen it A LOT - also only 64 minutes long, wtf! - .........these movies reached a crazy peak in the 40s when apparently America went nuts with plot complexity of more is more is more..........this and Decoy (1946) are the peak of batshit lunacy imo and a lot of people dislike both,.........these people are stupid, dangerous and also no fucking fun......... Foch is greatish here - both simply identifiable and yet ........complexly at a loss of herself within herself.........you get a whole lotta movie here.........and after you see it you start to question everything and everybody Shutter Island I think rips this off in a way and you just know Scorsese knows this flick like he knows guns and provolone......... ![](https://www.backseatmafia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/My-name-is-Julia-Ross.jpg)
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 15, 2024 15:42:17 GMT
Joseph Cotten in Portrait of Jennie (1948) - rewatchI'm pretty sure I wrote about this once but I wrote about the breathtaking Jennifer Jones.......but this remarkable - and remarkably goofy in how it swerves sappiness - film has a wonderful, aching performance from Cotten who with this and The Third Man has a field day in romantic longing and need........he's the definition of the tortured, lovelorn artist.......and the movie is all atmosphere and marvelous shadowy effect....... ![](https://lwlies.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/portrait-of-jennie-1108x0-c-default.jpg)
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Post by MsMovieStar on Jul 16, 2024 21:49:37 GMT
Joseph Cotten in Portrait of Jennie (1948) - rewatchI'm pretty sure I wrote about this once but I wrote about the breathtaking Jennifer Jones.......but this remarkable - and remarkably goofy in how it swerves sappiness - film has a wonderful, aching performance from Cotten who with this and The Third Man has a field day in romantic longing and need........he's the definition of the tortured, lovelorn artist.......and the movie is all atmosphere and marvelous shadowy effect....... ![](https://lwlies.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/portrait-of-jennie-1108x0-c-default.jpg) Oh honey, reading how Jennifer Jones frantically crammed a mink coat into a toilet and then tried to flush it, as well as hitting her husband David O'Selznick so hard that she broke his glasses (During the filming of Stazione Termini in Rome) were pivotal moments in my decision to become an actress.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 19, 2024 6:40:53 GMT
Warren Beatty in The Parallax View (1974) - rewatchPart star turn, part character sketch.......seemingly scarily relevant film wth an aura of inevitable pull to it ![](https://www.discdish.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/TheParallaxView.jpg)
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Post by TylerDeneuve on Jul 19, 2024 18:58:32 GMT
The entire cast of Far from Heaven, but of course Julianne Moore in particular. (Re-watch)In lesser hands, this film, with its swirl of lush colors and swell of dramatic score - an homage to the so-called "women's pictures" of Douglas Sirk - might have been merely an exercise in style, but for Todd Haynes and this aces cast, the entire result is only achingly sincere and genuinely heartbreaking. Moore as Cathy Whitaker, whose character is simply too good for this world - seriously, it's hard to imagine a kinder, gentler person so abused and abandoned by film's end ![:cry:](//storage.proboards.com/6692321/images/jbw7pZlWpkhEfWleZ3qJ.gif) - lets us see this tightly controlled woman's façade trembling. Her careful purr of a voice conceals emotions, but as the film progresses, her smile grows hollow, and when she finally weeps, it's devastating. It's a precarious tonal tightrope for Moore to walk - to blend the heightened 50s melodrama with genuine human emotion - and she never once falters. To my mind, this ranks among the very best of performances ever committed to film, worthy of standing by the side of Adjani in The Story of Adele H., Schneider in L'Important c'est d'aimer, and Rampling in Under the Sand. ![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EI3pOyUVAAIYTOI?format=jpg&name=large)
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 20, 2024 12:13:31 GMT
The entire cast of Cut Throats Nine (1972) - rewatch - On TUBI!Possibly the most gory, OTT violent Western ever.......really a horror Western.......basically bleak af - somethng to watch when The Great Silence seems too light ![:uhoh:](//storage.proboards.com/6692321/images/c8bbBnLz3a98Jzy_29H2.gif) ......or The Hateful Eight is too talky Mattsby may love this......QT may also (likely does).......or parts of it at least .......a real movie movie ........fnck Art......and yet weirdly acheves its own kind of Artfulness.............. and this cast is ALL in........ ![](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYzk3ODhlYmItODU1MC00YjU5LTgyYzQtNGE0NDFhZThhOTNhXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNDgzODE3NDk@._V1_.jpg)
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 22, 2024 7:09:56 GMT
Vic Silayan in Kisapmata (1981) - rewatch Said it before in this thread - a De Niro level performance.........dazzlng film That's it........see it ffs Upgraded print on rarefilmm ![]() ![](https://static1.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/kisapmata-vic-silayan.jpg)
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Jul 22, 2024 13:07:47 GMT
Sean Penn in Carlito’s Way. Swarmy, corrupt, manipulative, weasley, wanna-be gangster coked up lawyer who can hardly hide his fear and true self under the facade he fronts. So believable in the role you have no doubt he’s throw his sister under the bus for a plea deal or even the right amount of money. Pacino is equally great in other ways but I’m so drawn to Penn’s performance in this. Viggo also deserves a shout out for his wonderful single scene. ![](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/films/2018/11/13/seanpenncarlito_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqwRnwQ0KgCqCTKamrqQKaYmupraKUR1Zcu4RcaNG-VEQ.jpg?imwidth=960)
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 25, 2024 0:02:23 GMT
Ellen Burstyn in Ressurection (1980) - rewatchOne of those movies - like John Boorman's, alpha-male masterpiece (the Heat of its day tbh) Point Blank (1967) - where you can not be sure if what you see happening is REALLY happening or if Burstyn is, say merely cracking up......or possessed or.....a sort of divine spirit.......or....? Ellen Burstyn takes this highly questionable material and makes it deeply felt, and deeply soulful.......remarkably "spiritual"...........she is the movie....and she also floats around the edges of it........I'm not sure how she embodied this very elusive character ![](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/proxy/WS0CbQAZgFc8O4lLFC0RXHTGggAUf0ouPKlXZY0TLpIGoMHqG8kOWBN34Rjax1TdItZAoTOPBGDAYopUcjGvhrs)
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 26, 2024 17:41:51 GMT
James Cagney in Love Me Or Leave Me (1955) - rewatch on TUBITUBI is just the best....... Not only one of his very greatest turns, but a performance that is as psychologically complex as modern performances are - in that Cagney sees himself as "better than a star........a starmaker"......at times as terrifying as Robert Ryan in his bruised, battered post-WW II psyche turns where he recognizes his "sickness" and kind of seeks it out........feeds on it........there are not many actors in 1955 who could do this, in this way and this makes a GREAT double feature with Bogart's In A Lonely Place (1950) ![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuPCsjebB5F0A8xeKa51wQ5ULy-PR7hvEiQqy78oy6lEksYf4X9rIeKurqcKwunmjfm2zEu_LWyXBHQ5DVzWkFmA8b0IxZSOb8ECS9M8DugEQZKLhaetcHYfSW6cQzAuQv4znHdbg05cDW/s1600/Love+Me+or+Leave+Me_James+Cagney_1955.JPG)
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 27, 2024 6:51:40 GMT
Clint Jordan in Virgil Bliss (2001) - 1st time watch on rarefilmmHad never heard of this ........and it's a bargain basement, dirt cheap, raw movie that reminds me of 3 movies I always champion - Straight Time (1978), (the almost unseen by anybody) Sue (1997) and the Scorsese homage Laws of Gravity (1992)..........it's not as good or as much of an obvious acting tour de force as those 3 ........but it is close enough .........and the ending is a knockout....... Quite a find I think.......and Jordan is pretty amazing here at evoking a character with walls closing in even when he seems to be ok or things are getting better........that doom is ON his shoulders .........and he can't shake it off ![](https://offscreen.com/images/articles/_resized/00-VirgilBliss-resize-crop.jpg)
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 28, 2024 19:49:36 GMT
Julie Christie in Darling (1965) - millionth rewatch
If you ever think about this movie - and I have thought about it way too much, for way too many years.......you will marvel at how Christie adds touches into something (someone) who could be played much more simply and vapidly......the amount of times she makes the slightest verbal gesture to indicate she finds something funny, or sexy and NOT that she doesn't understand her character's allure is great fun (and sad) all at once........that "smart enough to know that you're not that smart.....but not smart enough to NOT be that way"
She is also very much one of the greatest actresses in knowing how the camera framed her, sexialized her, wanted to cage her even......this is expressly done in a famous scene (below) where she is cut off, sectionalized, meticulously positioned........and yet you notice all that but never more than the character's inner life......eyes wide open......or closed tight
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 31, 2024 13:04:04 GMT
Kirsten Dunst in Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette (2006) - rewatchThe first time I saw this film I was struck - obviously - by how eye-popping it is .........every time I have seen it after, I'm struck my how indefinably, deeply sorrowful it is.......and Dunst is not only great at capturing THIS version of her, she is very much her director's instrument to convey her too Perfect to watch right now as people jizz over the Pastry of Paris and leave out ....you know.......the Blood and Discontent.......in some circles as underrated as Melancholia is overrated tbh ![](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/auNeZnAp4svZWaedwKfwcZ.jpg)
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 2, 2024 4:21:08 GMT
Jeff Bridges and Glenn Close in Jagged Edge (1985) - rewatch There is no great American actor - at least until maybe Willem Dafoe - whose career is less dependent on brand or stereotype than Jeff Bridges Neither needing a gun, a geographic area, a stock role or an exotic character he can of course play across all such things..........and in Jagged Edge - extremely entertaining commercial nonsense that is about as good as Cher's Suspect for example .......Jeff Bridges is ingratiating to Close AND us..........a charming devil........all the way around Close is immediately convincing as a lawyer because she exudes intelligence (or in Hollywood terms, dumb intelligence so you root for her)............she conveys the mechanics of her job............of better than mere competence she delineates expertise..........she shows us the pitfalls and trap of professionalism and desperation ............amid highly improbable plot turns ![:uhoh:](//storage.proboards.com/6692321/images/c8bbBnLz3a98Jzy_29H2.gif) Highly watchable, commercial stuff ...........almost against your will but some things in Life - and Movies just work...............Jagged Edge totally works because of these two ![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/m6rjxrl6J1xI1Wa1KDrW_xOlnFDjHvuuRLFJKfV7uT_jXhKIC0pHW1fKfDx2ka3Zru211hIzHAtXfEOq9Kgu0-R0CotGBl_Tp3FB_4N9v1IJnKir8RsMWf9aq_Is9_LI7xtqN3rsI2nPlKHTgvjuvoO20jA9JYHBpviPwWc)
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Aug 3, 2024 20:08:11 GMT
Jeff Bridges and Glenn Close in Jagged Edge (1985) - rewatch There is no great American actor - at least until maybe Willem Dafoe - whose career is less dependent on brand or stereotype than Jeff Bridges Neither needing a gun, a geographic area, a stock role or an exotic character he can of course play across all such things..........and in Jagged Edge - extremely entertaining commercial nonsense that is about as good as Cher's Suspect for example .......Jeff Bridges is ingratiating to Close AND us..........a charming devil........all the way around Close is immediately convincing as a lawyer because she exudes intelligence (or in Hollywood terms, dumb intelligence so you root for her)............she conveys the mechanics of her job............of better than mere competence she delineates expertise..........she shows us the pitfalls and trap of professionalism and desperation ............amid highly improbable plot turns ![:uhoh:](//storage.proboards.com/6692321/images/c8bbBnLz3a98Jzy_29H2.gif) Highly watchable, commercial stuff ...........almost against your will but some things in Life - and Movies just work...............Jagged Edge totally works because of these two ![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/m6rjxrl6J1xI1Wa1KDrW_xOlnFDjHvuuRLFJKfV7uT_jXhKIC0pHW1fKfDx2ka3Zru211hIzHAtXfEOq9Kgu0-R0CotGBl_Tp3FB_4N9v1IJnKir8RsMWf9aq_Is9_LI7xtqN3rsI2nPlKHTgvjuvoO20jA9JYHBpviPwWc) This has been on my watchlist for ages. This write up might give me the push to give it a go this week.
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