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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 4, 2024 18:05:39 GMT
Riz Ahmed in The Night Of (2016) - rewatch An uncommonly smart actor anyway......but what is more fascinating about him is how he does many actorly moves - looking one way when not speaking and tilting his head when he does - that incrementally invite you into his reasoning, feelings and thoughts - and how he processes what he sees........it's kind of incredible.......and more incredible on a rewatch.......some of the best eyes among current actors ......his eyes are deeply revealing.........and deeply soulful
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Post by ireallyamsomething on Aug 6, 2024 15:36:42 GMT
Anthony Perkins in Psycho (1960) - rewatch
Recently rewatched this all-time favorite (in a theatre for the first time!) and once again marveled at what Perkins did here. It's discussed more as a directorial masterclass (rightly so) than an actor's film, but I feel like Perkins's performance should be in contention whenever the greatest movie performances are discussed. He is alternately endearing, amusing, creepy, tragic - just an amazing creation.
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 7, 2024 11:19:46 GMT
Burt Lancaster in The Sweet Smell of Success (1957) - rewatch Not merely an exceptional performance........but one that is very much text based when earlier Lancaster had bee more of a physical type - not inarticulate exactly but also not THIS articulate either Lancaster has great joy in this performance and uses that text to then inform his physicality........when words are used by him he's a great, cutting wit - "Everybody knows Manny Davis.........except Mrs. Manny Davis" ........when they are used against him, he's rather cornered and feral and strangely hollow too
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Post by DanQuixote on Aug 7, 2024 15:36:31 GMT
Janet Planet has a bevy of great performances, but I wanted to give a shout out to the always wonderful Sophie Okonedo.
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 8, 2024 12:50:19 GMT
Jean-Hughes Anglade in Killing Zoe (1993 / 1994) rewatch Not a great movie......but an underrated one for some sequences.......and another one to watch if you're a bit sick of the Olympics portrayal of the city.......and I'll tell you this........anybody who reviews this movie and doesn't say how awesomely OTT Anglade is - well that's a total Olympic level lie ........he'll show you the real Paris......and in his Paris there's no room for modulated control or understatement ...........God Bless Him
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 9, 2024 6:15:07 GMT
Susan Sarandon & Burt Lancaster in Louis Malle's Atlantic City (1980 /1981 US) - rewatchBurt Lancaster deep dive continues........ A movie that without this casting - and this magical director - might seem inconsequential but they pull everything out of the text and premise ........with them it plays as mysterious, bittersweet, elegiac, contradictory, deeply human and empathetic......romantic in the best sense - marvelling at life's illusions, our preconceptions and what the past, present and future hold Also, genuinely sexy in a believable and funny in a wise, knowing way too - with much of the humor specifically about navigating that past, present, future terrain
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Post by mhynson27 on Aug 9, 2024 14:20:13 GMT
Fucking EVERYONE in Glengarry Glen Ross
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Post by stephen on Aug 10, 2024 0:01:25 GMT
Look at this smooth motherfucker. He just oils his way into the boardroom like he hasn't got a care in the world, all while the rest of the cast is bemoaning the downfall of the modern capitalist state. This guy sits in a chair and absolutely gnaws on the scenery like it's prime fucking rib, and he makes it look so off-the-cuff while doing it. Look at the way his eyes just gleam with pure delight; this is a man who plays with corporations and civilizations like they're fucking toys, and he knows no matter what he's gonna walk out of there with a dinner reservation.
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Aug 10, 2024 6:19:20 GMT
Look at this smooth motherfucker. He just oils his way into the boardroom like he hasn't got a care in the world, all while the rest of the cast is bemoaning the downfall of the modern capitalist state. This guy sits in a chair and absolutely gnaws on the scenery like it's prime fucking rib, and he makes it look so off-the-cuff while doing it. Look at the way his eyes just gleam with pure delight; this is a man who plays with corporations and civilizations like they're fucking toys, and he knows no matter what he's gonna walk out of there with a dinner reservation. "Explain it to me as if I were a golden retriever..." Whole cast is great, but sadly my mvp is the one who is persona non grata.
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 10, 2024 14:14:39 GMT
Dan Stevens in Cuckoo (2024)Pacino's co-star in the forthcoming horror The Ritual and if Al's not careful he may have the film stolen from under him - or they both could be so left-field wonderful that it's a treat (maybe) Stevens has great fun, and great imagination and wit here - he works HARD here - he justifies this shaky, but pretty good horror film......one of the years best - and most clever - horror movies turns with Monroe / Cage in Longlegs and David Dastmalchian in Late Night With The Devil
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 11, 2024 7:14:26 GMT
Daniel Moosmann & Geneviève Thénier in Love At Sea (1965) - rewatch There's a great scene near the end of this film where the couple sees a bride in the street........and it seems perfect, romantic. But it is not real - it is for a photo layout (with posters of The Fire Within in background).....as transitory as the love story and as illusory........the film seems aloof but it gets quite complex in some dialog - "You love nothing" and "I'm not crazy" (said twice)................both of which may or may not be true A quite good young person's romance - with nothing to stop you or force you to stay together........our couple is sweet, annoying, baffling, lovely, foolish. Not a couple you root for maybe.........but a couple you wish you could because you sense things may not get better. if they fail......... Fine film.......
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Post by Archie on Aug 11, 2024 20:36:19 GMT
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Aug 12, 2024 17:33:40 GMT
Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabiaevery time I see this movie I'm reminded why O'Toole gives one of my favorite performances of all time, but what I always rediscover is how remarkably quiet he is. One of my favorite scenes is when he enters Cairo with Farraj, beaten down from his grueling trek through Sinai after taking Aqaba. He comes with miraculous news of conquest, but arrives filthy, exhausted and defeated, struck by his loss of Daud in the desert. And to arrive in the officer's club appearing as an outsider, with an Arab at his side, and to be stared at and disbelieved by everyone around him, knowing how much the Arabs have achieved in taking Aqaba and knowing how much Farraj has lost crossing Sinai, you see his defenses come up and he bristles with indignation that he and his friend might be refused a lemonade. He defiantly presses on, but you see the emotion swelling in his face. When he faces Quayle and says he wants a bed and sheets and then points to Farraj ("it's for him"), you don't know whether he's about to fly into a rage or break down crying. It's because he does neither that the scene is so electrically-charged.
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 13, 2024 11:17:13 GMT
Richard Widmark & Ida Lupino in Road House (1948) - rewatch Rarely for men has romantic desire mixed as uncomfortably with psychosis as it does with Widmark..........rarely has being pursued seemed as dangerous for Lupino who is aces at playing it wearily, smartly, tough ..........and never has a slap been as playful, sexy, charged and ominous as it is between them.......
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Post by TylerDeneuve on Aug 14, 2024 14:01:35 GMT
Love At Sea (1965) Thank you so much for this post. This has been on my watchlist for the longest time, but you prompted me to finally see it. It is simply, truly sublime. A Francophile's dream.
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 14, 2024 20:05:44 GMT
Love At Sea (1965) Thank you so much for this post. This has been on my watchlist for the longest time, but you prompted me to finally see it. It is simply, truly sublime. A Francophile's dream. Glad you saw this Tyler! This movie is also visually dynamic too ...........it's amazing to me that the French New Wave always gets boiled down to the same 4 or 5 (or so) big guys but there were many worthy filmmakers outside those "big ones" with great visual ideas and directorial vision........this film besides being quite good is also quite striking too imo
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 14, 2024 22:16:30 GMT
Adan Jodorowsky, Axel Jodorowsky and Blanca Guerra in Alejandro Jodorosky's Santa Sangre (1989 / 1990) - rewatch I often talk about actors "selling" a movie - well in this movie these 3 sell madness, lust, love, fate, opera, family dysfunction (putting it mildly) and Grand Guignol soap opera, and a kind of performance artistry too.........there's a form of artistry in almost every scene actually - a form of "entertainment" or at least a subversion of it as mere entertainment The very last scene of Santa Sangre has got to be one of the most beautiful, strange grace notes in any horror - hands stretched to Heaven, hands holding guns and a Biblical quote..........it makes perfect sense in that way that you can't quite explain to others .........they may find you touched by the same kind of madness this movie evokes ..........
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 15, 2024 22:06:50 GMT
Anja Plaschg in The Devil's Bath (2024)An inferior, more heavy-handed feminist version of Hagazussa (2017) - with way more words and less striking, disruptive images........and also less witchcraft so less jolts too.........and that's......ok..........because Hagazussa is a lightning in a bottle type movie.......and this is good in its own way Plaschg navigates a difficult role where she has to contrast her early happiness with incrementing sadness and walls closing in (and hypocrisy, religious, familial) ..........she's particularly brilliant in her wedding where she radiates joy and hope. This movie has an amazingly upsetting scene at the start and like Banshees of Inisherin severed fingers - though why she thinks that's good lunk is kind of puzzling.........the movie starts by saying this is based on a true event .........and you get the feeling it might be better if it weren't and went odder and unexplainable....... By the end Plaschg has suffered mightily, and quite believably too.........she breaks your heart and has her heart broken What is real? What is not? What do you see? What do you feel.......
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Post by urbanpatrician on Aug 15, 2024 22:49:36 GMT
Anja Plaschg in The Devil's Bath (2024)An inferior, more heavy-handed feminist version of Hagazussa (2017) - with way more words and less striking, disruptive images........and also less witchcraft so less jolts too.........and that's......ok..........because Hagazussa is a lightning in a bottle type movie.......and this is good in its own way Plaschg navigates a difficult role where she has to contrast her early happiness with incrementing sadness and walls closing in (and hypocrisy, religious, familial) ..........she's particularly brilliant in her wedding where she radiates joy and hope. This movie has an amazingly upsetting scene at the start and like Banshees of Inisherin severed fingers - though why she thinks that's good lunk is kind of puzzling.........the movie starts by saying this is based on a true event .........and you get the feeling it might be better if it weren't and went odder and unexplainable....... By the end Plaschg has suffered mightily, and quite believably too.........she breaks your heart and has her heart broken What is real? What is not? What do you see? What do you feel....... She's a platinum minted urbanpatrician girl. I haven't seen any of her movies but always gets my juices jumping when you mention an urbanpatrician girl.
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Post by Mattsby on Aug 15, 2024 23:48:47 GMT
Willa Fitzgerald - Strange DarlingPerformance of the year contender
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 16, 2024 11:30:59 GMT
Gena Rowlands in John Cassavetes' Opening Night (1977) - rewatch One of her very best - and maybe her most thought out performance as a total performance - in how it is set smartly to arc with the narrative.......this is one of the great performances of an actress playing an actress Essential viewing RIP
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 17, 2024 12:26:33 GMT
Juliette Binoche in Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colors: Blue (1993) - rewatch Very few scenes convey an actors portrayal of "internal life" without dialog ........ I don't mean them crying or things like that for example but rather the connectve thread BEFORE cryng and suggestive of later sufferng or..........maybe .........happiness Binoche does this for an entire movie (Casey Affleck in Manchester By THe Sea is another btw) - not the least of which in a scene involving mice, a closet and a cat that is almost unbearably evocative of a crushing awfulness.
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Post by VERITAS on Aug 18, 2024 1:39:53 GMT
Recently revisited Lee Chang-dong's masterpiece Poetry and bless her soul, Yoon Jeong-hee's nuanced, visceral performance gets better and better screening after screening...
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Post by ireallyamsomething on Aug 18, 2024 13:51:31 GMT
Kristin Scott Thomas in Leaving/Partir (2009)
Intense performance by an actress I've admired in a number of roles. Her character makes quite a few irrational, almost delirious decisions but I was on board with most of it, credit to Scott Thomas and the filmmaker. Her reputation may be for playing ice queens but a key aspect of the character is about her impulsive intensity and physical appetite in middle age - it's notable also how she switches to an excited girlish demeanor in the midst of her affair. Not many films delve into the financial considerations of passion or getting a divorce (or getting out of a marriage) which I admired in this movie (I reckon so many couples stay together mostly because they don't have financial independence).
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 19, 2024 5:09:24 GMT
Michal Dlouh in Sugar House (1980/81) - aka Little Sugar HouseComplex Young Adult performance from a film by Karel Kachyňa - and this is damn near impossibble to find Bracing stuff - often spectacular WW 2 film.......and evoked by the cast with great care
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