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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 13, 2024 12:00:17 GMT
James Mason as Johnny McQueen in Carol Reed's Odd Man Out (1947) - rewatch One of the most viscerally gripping and exhaustive screen performances - Dog Day Afternoon level almost .........framed in deep black and shifting grey........in a very great film too........this performance somehow wasn't nominated for Best Actor which seems really funny, preposterous, immediately renders the Oscar utterly meanngless and like a great injustce to acting simultaneously..........
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Post by wilcinema on Sept 13, 2024 18:21:36 GMT
Lois Smith in Minority Report (REWATCH)
This movie has a very underrated cast, but the MVP is easily Lois Smith. She has just one scene but she takes the movie by storm, she turns it upside down and she does so in such a colorful, joyous and yet menacing and disturbing way that I could keep watching that scene over and over and still be crept out. I love the way she spills out terrifying after terrifying pieces of info and at the same time she's constantly taunting John Anderton (and the viewer). A total one-scene wonder.
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Sept 13, 2024 19:28:22 GMT
Lois Smith in Minority Report (REWATCH)
This movie has a very underrated cast, but the MVP is easily Lois Smith. She has just one scene but she takes the movie by storm, she turns it upside down and she does so in such a colorful, joyous and yet menacing and disturbing way that I could keep watching that scene over and over and still be crept out. I love the way she spills out terrifying after terrifying pieces of info and at the same time she's constantly taunting John Anderton (and the viewer). A total one-scene wonder. Great stand out performance and love that her kissing Cruise was improvised. Also interesting that Merl Streep was supposedly cast in the role first and had to drop out.
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 14, 2024 17:04:47 GMT
Elliott Gould as Philip Marlowe in Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye (1973) - rewatch The most effortless revisionst performance ever? The coolest performance that never ONCE tries to be cool or on brand or some such nonsense.......so effortless you assume it's easy.......it's not.........
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Post by SZilla on Sept 14, 2024 18:14:33 GMT
William Shatner in Roger Corman's The Intruder. A vicious, charismatic, nasty performance from Shatner here. Likely the best he's ever been.
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Post by rhodoraonline on Sept 14, 2024 19:22:38 GMT
Elliott Gould as Philip Marlowe in Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye (1973) - rewatch The most effortless revisionst performance ever? The coolest performance that never ONCE tries to be cool or on brand or some such nonsense.......so effortless you assume it's easy.......it's not......... The Long Goodbye is ALSO free on Tubi. Oh my god!!!! Why did I never gave Tubi a try??? I was always assuming it was a subscription
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Post by wilcinema on Sept 15, 2024 17:29:35 GMT
Rock Hudson in Seconds
I'm kind of speechless right now. Knowing about Hudson's life, this performance is even better.
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 15, 2024 22:07:56 GMT
Kevin Kline as Otto in A Fish Called Wanda - rewatchNot just a performance that's funny - and it is wildly funny .......but you can actually watch this with the sound turned down and marvel at his humourous mannerisms........he turns scoffing and fuming into a very fine Art
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 17, 2024 14:37:57 GMT
Marion Cotllard as Édith Piaf in La Vie en Rose (2007) - rewatch A flawless performance that doesn't just depend on the singing sequences .......but could and it would still be flawless actually........and it depends on them less than great male great performances depend on big speechifyng (Scott in Patton ........Washington in Malcolm X) Sort of a miracle performance tbh
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