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Post by sofi screwbb on Aug 19, 2024 16:56:55 GMT
legendary drag queen actress Divine lighting up fireworks on the screen in Multiple Maniacs, Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble and Polyester, the latter being maybe my fav performance of hers (pic below). she is forceful, campy but highly sympathetic, electric and hilarious but also heartbreaking. she had a short life and now i miss everything she never got to do. so glad i finally caught up with most of her films this past week. fun fact: according to David Lochary's Wikipedia, who is one of the regular Dreamlanders ensemble cast in Waters' early films, he introduced Divine to drag.
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 21, 2024 21:51:02 GMT
Zbigniew Zamachowsk in Kieslowski's Three Colors: White (1993/1994) - rewatch Along with Dekalog #10 (in that too btw) the funniest performances(s) in auteur "heavy" world cinema......Zbigniew Zamachowsk here is a subtle master of weary resignation, foolish optimism and perpetual, baffled wonder A GREAT comic performance.......and an uncommonly human one
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 23, 2024 18:46:47 GMT
Ana Torrent in Close Your Eyes (2023 / 2024)A beautiful performance, by a beautful actress in a beautiful movie. Genuinely tear-inducing.......actually makes you love movies more - what movie does THAT? Arguably a masterpiece........ Victor Erice's film is undoubtedly masterful. iii
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 26, 2024 11:57:22 GMT
Dustin Hoffman in Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs (1971) -rewatch "After all, there's never been a kingdom given to so much bloodshed .......as that of Christ"
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Aug 26, 2024 19:48:24 GMT
Willa Fitzgerald in Strange Darling. She’s already been praised on this board several times but deserves another shout out. Holy shit what a great breakthrough performance.
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 27, 2024 17:24:13 GMT
Willa Fitzgerald and Kyle Gallner in Strange Darling (2024)Kyle Gallner is THE most dangerously alluring actor in American movies going by this, The Passenger (2023) and Dinner in America (2022 sort of). He's also oddly endearing and soulful. One of my personal faves atm....... ........and Willa Fitzgerald owns this movie with a great role played smartly, energetically! - to memorable and disturbing effect Casual sex........with murder on the side:
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Aug 27, 2024 18:07:59 GMT
Willa Fitzgerald and Kyle Gallner in Strange Darling (2024)Kyle Gallner is THE most dangerously alluring actor in American movies going by this, The Passenger (2023) and Dinner in America (2022 sort of). He's also oddly endearing and soulful. One of my personal faves atm....... ........and Willa Fitzgerald owns this movie with a great role played smartly, energetically! - to memorable and disturbing effect Casual sex........with murder on the side: Gallner was especially great with how he played his scenes in the last half/third of the movie. He was still effective in the beginning, but it was also very much in his wheelhouse from what I’ve already seen from him. I really can’t wait to rewatch this.
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 28, 2024 5:18:46 GMT
Burt Lancaster in The Swimmer (1968) - reatch
Lancaster deep dive - stll not over.......one of hs very best - at a point where his friend Kirk Douglas was flamng out and other rivals were stalled........the movie and performance - like Seconds (1966) subverts the 1950s ideas of manhood and could only logcally be played by a man representative of that Shatterng stuff .....many metaphors about well......uh .......drowning
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 31, 2024 8:00:02 GMT
Gena Rowlands in Woody Allen's Another Woman - rwatch Maybe the most honest, true to life, heartbreakinng - AND life affirming - portrait of an aging female in American movies
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 1, 2024 22:38:42 GMT
Peter Finch as Howard Beale in Network (1976) - rewatch Sure everybody knows how great he is when he goes big .....but he's great when beaten too.......and he often does things with his hands and arms and grimaces like someone invisible is physically confronting him......which, they kinda are "But, man, you're never going to get any truth from us. We'll tell you anything you want to hear; we lie like hell. We'll tell you that, uh, Kojak always gets the killer, or that nobody ever gets cancer at Archie Bunker's house, and no matter how much trouble the hero is in, don't worry, just look at your watch; at the end of the hour he's going to win."
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Sept 2, 2024 7:31:51 GMT
Peter Finch as Howard Beale in Network (1976) - rewatch Sure everybody knows how great he is when he goes big .....but he's great when beaten too.......and he often does things with his hands and arms and grimaces like someone invisible is physically confronting him......which, they kinda are "But, man, you're never going to get any truth from us. We'll tell you anything you want to hear; we lie like hell. We'll tell you that, uh, Kojak always gets the killer, or that nobody ever gets cancer at Archie Bunker's house, and no matter how much trouble the hero is in, don't worry, just look at your watch; at the end of the hour he's going to win."I actually prefer Holden. "Music up with a swell, final commercial... and here are a few scenes from next week's show".
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 3, 2024 10:53:49 GMT
Matt Damon as Carol in 30 Rock S5, E14 - rewatch
One of the most batshit funny episodes...........Damon is deliciously mean and cartoonishly evil and unhinged
Inspired comic acting - REALLY far out there for a mainstream TV show .......
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 4, 2024 5:49:17 GMT
John Garfeld as Frank Chambers in The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) -rewatch If you've read the (great, short) novel you know that the movie isn't just about the banality of evil but also the evil of banality - how the common or ordinary can curdle and rot the more you focus on them.........and Garfield is rather brlliant at not only suggesting his own doom .........but that he was preordained for it. Almost surprised it didn't happen sooner....... The performance is very much in tune with the themes overall the piece - mundane comfort vs excitig discomfort .........love / lust, friendship / betrayal, Evil (capital E), fatalism.......a pivotal pre-Brando performance because you think he'd have played this a lot LIKE this So many pleasures......just out of view.......and reach too.......
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Post by JangoB on Sept 4, 2024 23:20:19 GMT
Thought I was pretty much done with 2023 as far as amazing performances go... but today I had the privilege of watching Juliette Gariépy in the Canadian picture Red Rooms and was reminded that you can find gems even if you think you've exhausted all the options. You just gotta be curious and keep looking. Talk about an actress being completely absorbed by the character she's playing. Her Kelly-Anne is one of the most fascinating cinematic creations of last year. If you haven't seen Red Rooms, you owe it to yourself to check it out, especially if you're into properly original thrillers (and if you wanna see a better 2023 courtroom movie than Anatomy of a Fall!). It's a terrific movie with a great central performance. You won't forget those eyes... those stares.
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Sept 5, 2024 14:43:33 GMT
Al Pacino in And Justice for All. A mostly restrained performance from Pacino playing an honest hardworking lawyer at the end of his fuse from his clients getting beat down by the judicial system. The movie overall was a pretty mixed bag for me but Pacino was constant very good to great throughout it. You could always see so much bubbling under the surface as he tried to remain level headed…until his passion takes over.
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 5, 2024 15:40:40 GMT
Al Pacino in And Justice for All. A mostly restrained performance from Pacino playing an honest hardworking lawyer at the end of his fuse from his clients getting beat down by the judicial system. The movie overall was a pretty mixed bag for me but Pacino was constant very good to great throughout it. You could always see so much bubbling under the surface as he tried to remain level headed…until his passion takes over. What is so wonderful about him in this move is - as in Scarecrow and Dog Day he's pretty funny here too..........also he's surprsingly adept at playing white collar - a 10th grade dropout irl - he is almost always convincing as "smart" in such roles ...........there's a scene in this movie, at the start where he is talking to Ralph - which is one of hs best overlooked scenes - where he's funny smart and disarmngly sensitive / empathetic ..........how he plays that scene is qute more interesting than what's on the page imo........
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Sept 5, 2024 18:14:01 GMT
Robert DeNiro and Ed Harris in Jacknife. Such a layered performance from DeNiro. Charismatic, sensitive, spontaneous, and unpredictably violent, all covering his trauma he doesn’t want to deal with. And perfectly balanced by Harris who is more outwardly depressed/angry and wears his trauma on his sleeve. Kathy Baker deserves a shout out as well. Superb cast and performances all around.
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Post by PromNightCarrie on Sept 5, 2024 22:47:43 GMT
Wes Studi in The Last of the Mohicans. Wow. This is one I slept on. When I used to watch this movie, I was always distracted by Daniel Day Lewis and Madeleine Stowe being dreamy together. Today I watch it and realize all along I've missed praising the truly great performance in the film. Studi as Magua is the film. Think about it if you watch this again (or if it's for the first time, you obviously missed DDL's dreamboat 90s era).
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Post by cheesecake on Sept 6, 2024 1:57:05 GMT
Thought I was pretty much done with 2023 as far as amazing performances go... but today I had the privilege of watching Juliette Gariépy in the Canadian picture Red Rooms and was reminded that you can find gems even if you think you've exhausted all the options. You just gotta be curious and keep looking. Talk about an actress being completely absorbed by the character she's playing. Her Kelly-Anne is one of the most fascinating cinematic creations of last year. If you haven't seen Red Rooms, you owe it to yourself to check it out, especially if you're into properly original thrillers (and if you wanna see a better 2023 courtroom movie than Anatomy of a Fall!). It's a terrific movie with a great central performance. You won't forget those eyes... those stares. Fuck yes. She's incredible! Best film of 2023. Made it a double feature with The Artifice Girl because I hate myself.
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 6, 2024 23:16:38 GMT
Aaron Pierre and to a lesser extent Don Johnson in Rebel Ridge (2024)Extremely well paced - smart, tough af action pic that plays like a Redneck Get Carter crossed with First Blood or a Rambo film Pierre in a starmaking performance is terriffic.....Johnson in a Brandoesque villain role is pretty memorable (and quotable especially about shit eating grins and pissing contests) Great stuff.......EXACTLY the action movie Jake Gyllenhaal tries to make all the time that always blows.............
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 8, 2024 14:32:25 GMT
Cloris Leachman, John Cassavetes and Elisha Cook Jr - in "Solomon" episode of "Johnny Staccato" (1960) - rewatch
Wildly OTT in a 3 character piece that is almost Twilght Zone odd and otherworldly - with bare bones, almost theatrical sets........I love this stuff tbh........Leachman has a moment near the end that is almost Streep-like in how she goes instantly subtle right in the middle of being questionably histrionic.........and it totally works......... The first thing I ever saw Leachman in .......
Full episode below (25 mins):
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Post by Archie on Sept 8, 2024 22:08:55 GMT
Dustin Hoffman is the only real reason to watch Wag the Dog. He's especially great in his last outburst which brings the whole thing together.
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 10, 2024 2:00:55 GMT
JangoB 4 the rec Juliette Gariépy in Red Rooms (2023) - 1st time watch Ingenious little film - like the even better knockout Spanish film Manticore (2022) it witholds much from you, that you should be pissed ........... yet somehow that doesn't feel like a cheat - rather what's witheld is the actual components of its own side drama Elements of Tesis, The Tenant and the fringes of many serial killer films are here but it plays out with those rearranged and recontextualized Gariépy gives a performance that is mysterious without being vague and later incrementally obsessive wihout seeming obvious - the film is also clever in how it conveys visual images to us so that often we search thngs in the foreground or background thinking we may have missed something too (the visual tableux is like our own dark web) .........also quite witty on AI sense of humor and stuff ...........but that's just a minor thing
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 10, 2024 21:47:37 GMT
Humphrey Bogart as Mad Dog Earle - and also Ida Lupino in High Sierra (1941) - rewatchOne of Bogart's very best - top 5? - - and most complex roles and Ida Lupino at her most complex too - certainly more interesting than nice goody two shoes Joan Leslie who isn't rght for Bogie at all.........pfffft The ending alone is a classic of existential manliness......and wide open fatalism
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 12, 2024 6:14:45 GMT
Robert Duvall and James Earl Jones in A Family Thing (1996) - rewatchA lovely film........beautifully played............ by two of the best to ever do it. That's it. RIP
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