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Post by cinemagirl16 on Jan 25, 2020 1:53:29 GMT
Isabelle Adjani. Finally seeing more of her work.
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Post by Mattsby on Aug 10, 2020 19:52:22 GMT
As a catch up: For the first few months of this year I went mad for Geraldine Page and Ralph Richardson. Watched around ten or more movies from each. They both flew up my fav actor/actress list. I've also generally and slowly been doing rewatches and picking at Paul Newman, Ingrid Bergman, and Barbara Stanwyck (already was one of my favs before I saw Lady Eve (her best?) this year!!!). Others: Rip Torn a bit (what a snarl and what an underrated actor), Jim Brown yesterday, but really lately and overall I've been obsessed with two................: James Earl Jones and Alan Bates. Idk how it happened but forever Bates was just 'the guy from The Shout' for me - - and I didn't even like him. Butley was a game-changer all-timer perf and everything else I've seen, a dozen or more, has been so impressive and such a surprise. Like RR, he flew up my fav actor list. Jones - a rewatch of Matewan, his King Lear, East Side/West Side ep, A Family Thing, random stuff like Bingo Long and Annihilation of Fish, etc. He has a larger than life infectious quality- and he has enormous emotional range sometimes very suddenly- and stuff like Fish, Family Thing, or The Ambulance, there's surprise and teasing in his perf that other actors wouldn't have thought to add. Can you believe I haven't seen Great White Hope yet or Claudine!! Soon, soon....
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Post by stephen on Aug 10, 2020 19:54:51 GMT
Some of you aren't yet on the Buckley Express (which is baffling), but I think after this year, she's going to be a real favorite around here.
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Post by eyebrowmorroco on Aug 11, 2020 17:05:49 GMT
Lori March
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Post by Mattsby on Aug 31, 2021 21:08:27 GMT
Camille Cottin Obviously some of us, pacinoyes etc, are still taking deep breaths after our swooned Call My Agent binges, but a recent watch of Stillwater and all these recent articles sort of cracked me up again for her. She is transcendent on screen - so appealing and lovely, she can crack you up like crazy, or thaw you with a look. Don't forget she came to French focus for her improv comedy, on stage and their TVs - Comedy Central-type street prank sketches (Connasse) and then Call My Agent (an all timer series perf) and now already this decade she's en route to further potential... Stillwater and soon Gucci might be her oars to more English-language projects (and more substantial parts). She isn't a blip in Gucci, either... the script has her in a couple scenes and she should make a good little impact. Also, haven't seen - there's Killing Eve guest eps and she's apparently in the next season as well. In recent weeks, Entertainment Weekly had a half-page on her ("The French Connection"), the NYT... lotta pieces, and a great New Yorker one where she has a fascinating thought - Few days ago she said she's seriously looking to move out of France - mentioning the U.S. or Spain (she speaks Spanish!). Lotta career possibilities in view......
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Post by franklin on Aug 31, 2021 22:20:26 GMT
Virginie Efira after Benedetta. I was surprised to hear she’s in her 40s, she looks way much younger than her actual age.
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Post by MsMovieStar on Sept 2, 2021 15:26:18 GMT
Oh honeys, I think Ms Movie Star is the one to watch...
Oh it's me!
All eyes on me.
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Post by PromNightCarrie on Oct 8, 2021 16:46:39 GMT
Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly and Judy GarlandLast year I decided to explore the classic musicals of the 30/40/50/60s and ended up watching some of the main films by Garland, Kelly and Astaire. So far I've enjoyed everything I've watched, my favorites being The Wizard of Oz, The Band Wagon, Summer Stock and Swing Time. All the performances I watched from the three actors were good and several musical numbers were impeccable (especially this scene from The Band Wagon). It only bothered me so far the lack of variety in the roles of these three actors, Garland even varies a little from one role to another, but I think Astaire and Kelly play roles that look too much like their off-screen personalities. And with the exception of The Band Wagon and Easter Parade, the other films I saw from Astaire are very similar to each other, the plots are very similar. But watching him dance with Ginger Rogers is always worth it. Anyway, I still intend to watch the other films considered essential by these three actors that I haven't seen yet. I went through this exact phase for a year or two long ago. Gave me a greater appreciation of the talent from that era that we don't see anymore. It spoiled to the point where I've been quite harsh on the modern musicals. Easter Parade with Astaire, Garland, and the machine gun rapid tap dancer Ann Miller is lovely. Gene Kelly and Judy Garland had such excellent chemistry. Kelly's first role is a drama opposite Garland in a film called For Me and My Gal. Have you seen it? I think Judy is fantastic in it. Her most underrated (overlooked?) dramatic performance. I also had a little girl crush on Cyd Charisse at one point. No Garland or Ginger Rogers in the acting department, but she was something else. When she was on screen, Astaire who? Gene Kelly what?
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Post by isabelaolive on Oct 8, 2021 22:24:17 GMT
Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly and Judy GarlandLast year I decided to explore the classic musicals of the 30/40/50/60s and ended up watching some of the main films by Garland, Kelly and Astaire. So far I've enjoyed everything I've watched, my favorites being The Wizard of Oz, The Band Wagon, Summer Stock and Swing Time. All the performances I watched from the three actors were good and several musical numbers were impeccable (especially this scene from The Band Wagon). It only bothered me so far the lack of variety in the roles of these three actors, Garland even varies a little from one role to another, but I think Astaire and Kelly play roles that look too much like their off-screen personalities. And with the exception of The Band Wagon and Easter Parade, the other films I saw from Astaire are very similar to each other, the plots are very similar. But watching him dance with Ginger Rogers is always worth it. Anyway, I still intend to watch the other films considered essential by these three actors that I haven't seen yet. I went through this exact phase for a year or two long ago. Gave me a greater appreciation of the talent from that era that we don't see anymore. It spoiled to the point where I've been quite harsh on the modern musicals. Easter Parade with Astaire, Garland, and the machine gun rapid tap dancer Ann Miller is lovely. Gene Kelly and Judy Garland had such excellent chemistry. Kelly's first role is a drama opposite Garland in a film called For Me and My Gal. Have you seen it? I think Judy is fantastic in it. Her most underrated (overlooked?) dramatic performance. I also had a little girl crush on Cyd Charisse at one point. No Garland or Ginger Rogers in the acting department, but she was something else. When she was on screen, Astaire who? Gene Kelly what? I haven't watched 'For Me and My Gal' yet, but it's on my watchlist. Since I made this post, I had time to watch some other musicals that were missing. I saw 'Funny Girl' and 'Yentl' with Barbra Streisand and I was just obsessed with her! I also saw 'Broadway Melody of 1940' with Astaire and Eleanor Powell and honestly I think Eleanor is probably the best tap dancer I've ever seen, she managed to completely overshadow Astaire! I've also seen Sweet Charity, Meet Me in St. Louis, All That Jazz, On The Town, My Fair Lady, Victor/Victoria, 42nd Street, Yankee Doodle Dandy, etc.
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Post by PromNightCarrie on Oct 8, 2021 22:57:13 GMT
I went through this exact phase for a year or two long ago. Gave me a greater appreciation of the talent from that era that we don't see anymore. It spoiled to the point where I've been quite harsh on the modern musicals. Easter Parade with Astaire, Garland, and the machine gun rapid tap dancer Ann Miller is lovely. Gene Kelly and Judy Garland had such excellent chemistry. Kelly's first role is a drama opposite Garland in a film called For Me and My Gal. Have you seen it? I think Judy is fantastic in it. Her most underrated (overlooked?) dramatic performance. I also had a little girl crush on Cyd Charisse at one point. No Garland or Ginger Rogers in the acting department, but she was something else. When she was on screen, Astaire who? Gene Kelly what? I haven't watched 'For Me and My Gal' yet, but it's on my watchlist. Since I made this post, I had time to watch some other musicals that were missing. I saw 'Funny Girl' and 'Yentl' with Barbra Streisand and I was just obsessed with her! I also saw 'Broadway Melody of 1940' with Astaire and Eleanor Powell and honestly I think Eleanor is probably the best tap dancer I've ever seen, she managed to completely overshadow Astaire! I've also seen Sweet Charity, Meet Me in St. Louis, All That Jazz, On The Town, My Fair Lady, Victor/Victoria, 42nd Street, Yankee Doodle Dandy, etc. Definitely watch it! It's not as light as these other musicals we're talking about though. You're going the same musical path I did. I even went the Barbra Streisand one (minus Yentl). Eleanor Powell was superhuman in her ability! The Broadway Melody of 1940 number is classic, but I'm sure you've seen many of her solo numbers by now too. Another great dancer was Vera Ellen. She is most famous for White Christmas. She was such a versatile dancer in ballet, tap, and jazz. She had a tragic life (eating disorder, infant death) and didn't remain in the public eye, but she's one of my favorites. Check out the married couple/house skit with Astaire that is great. Check out Kiss Me Kate too. Ann Miller has a fantastic tap number Too Darn Hot. But the part that I was obsessed with is the one with a young Bob Fosse and Carol Haney. You can see the early rumblings of Fosse's famous style already showing.
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Post by HELENA MARIA on Oct 9, 2021 0:49:53 GMT
Margaret freakin' Qualley ! Currently watching MAID on Netflix and she's freaking slaying it ! She has such a magnetic screen presence and an enchanting expressive face. And you're absolutely right @tyler , she looks a lot like Isabelle Adjani.
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 15, 2021 17:52:14 GMT
Antonio de la Torre I always liked this guy - but lately.........a LOT more. He is all over Tubi and Netflix currently for everyone to discover him or discover him even more - The Last Circus (wrote about that in Great Performances), Cannibal (better than it sounds), The November War, The Fury of A Patient Man (I just put him in Last Great Performance You've Seen for this - he's tremendous here - watch it), A Twelve Year Night,The Endless Trench, The Motive.........all of these are available at one or the other He's the most nominated Goya actor ever (15 nods, 2 wins).........really interesting actor who is terrific at layering his characters and placing you inside his mind or behavior........I've seen him a lot and I haven't even scratched the surface - he has a lot of work........
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Post by Mattsby on Dec 15, 2021 20:20:25 GMT
Jones - a rewatch of Matewan, his King Lear, East Side/West Side ep, A Family Thing, random stuff like Bingo Long and Annihilation of Fish, etc. He has a larger than life infectious quality- and he has enormous emotional range sometimes very suddenly- and stuff like Fish, Family Thing, or The Ambulance, there's surprise and teasing in his perf that other actors wouldn't have thought to add. Can you believe I haven't seen Great White Hope yet or Claudine!! Soon, soon.... Meant to update bc my JEJ obsession is still going, still healthy. I've since seen Claudine and The Great White Hope - he's great in them. Also since posting: Roots Next Generations finale, The UFO Incident, Grim Prairie Tales, The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened, Under One Roof and stray other television stuff. Like some of those, he's often secretly great inside of iffy stuff. You just gotta hold out. He's climbed and entered my Top 20 or so fav actors... I just love him. He has a similar effect on me like with Peter Falk, Vincent Price-- when they're on screen, I'm merry, I'm in.
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Post by Mattsby on Dec 15, 2021 20:34:25 GMT
Lately been really into 5'5 Brits apparently. Stephen Graham (the actor of the year) and Bob Hoskins who's like his acting forefather. Graham I've always liked, since '07 seeing This is England, and then Boardwalk Empire. And this year alone: Time, Help, Boiling Point, North Water, etc! The man can hold his own opposite an at-his-best Pacino, I mean. Love him. Hoskins I feel like I've f'd up and missed out on his greatness. 2021 watches: Othello, The Changeling, 24/7, The Street episode, Frasier episode, Pennies from Heaven, Go Go Tales, Last Orders, Mussolini — rewatches: Mona Lisa, Long Good Friday, Cotton Club. And I gotta admit, I haven't seen Who Framed Roger Rabbit yet.
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Post by pacinoyes on May 15, 2022 23:09:53 GMT
The amazing Ayako Wakao - the muse in several films by Yasuzo Masumura (20 of his films?!?!?) - she's also in An Actor's Revenge, Floating Weeds and Street of Shame. So much to catch up on - apparently she has quite a gift for comedy but I've never seen her in one !?!?! Still alive too, at 88 - unforgettable in Irezumi and Red Angel both from 1966 for Masumura...
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Post by pacinoyes on May 20, 2022 21:45:40 GMT
The late, great Patrick Dewaere - half of the 70s French version of DePac along with Depardieu - whose star rose even more after Deware's suicide. This apparently just played at Cannes.......pretty much essential viewing......no trailer yet online. SYNOPSIS
PATRICK DEWAERE, MON HÉROS
With “Les Valseuses” (Going Places) in 1974 with Gérard Depardieu, the public discovered the future icon of French cinema: Patrick Dewaere. A James Dean with a meteoric film career – “Coup de tête” (Hothead), “Série noire”, “Préparez vos mouchoirs” (Get Out Your Hankerchiefs), he committed suicide at age 35. This film reveals the real Patrick Dewaere: raped as a child, pulled out of school by a mother who forces him to become an actor, a teenager estranged from his family and society. A unique destiny blurring boundaries between the cinema and personal ordeals. Upon the 40th anniversary of his death, hommage will be paid to the legendary actor by his daughter Lola Dewaere, and the unique accounts of Bertrand Blier, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Claude Lelouch, Francis Huster and Brigitte Fossey.
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Post by ireallyamsomething on May 27, 2022 6:58:14 GMT
Ayako Wakao - after seeing her in Irezumi and thought that was one one of the all-time great femme fatale characters/performances I had seen. Such a striking presence in Masumura films (I had seen her in Street of Shame and Floating Weeds years ago but hadn't really registered her distinctly).
I even tracked down the little known Diary of a Mad Old Man solely for Wakao, but that wasn't particularly good (that's a sign that I am taken with an actor, which is fairly rare - when I watch a not so good film and realize okay, I just watched it for them and that didn't turn out so well, because it's usually the writer/director or the premise/themes which otherwise make me interested in something)
Wakao has a long, stellar filmography so looking forward to seeing more of her work!
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 11, 2022 10:05:49 GMT
Maika Monroe
I recently praised her in Watcher (2022) - a pretty good, feminist (somewhat) spin on Hitchcock tropes where she suggests unravelling from inside and outside pressure.
I've seen her several times - Greta, It Follows, Honey Boy, The Guest etc. but never as the center lead in a major way where she dominates - she's kind of brilliant at times here - suggesting Jessica Lange - whom she has much of the same odd entry points into acting (like Lange she wasn't "first" an actress).
She's one of the more complicated young actresses - she just turned 29 - because often nowadays actresses in this age group convey weakness first and strength or resolve later....but she's the opposite - which might be why she's popped up so much in horror or horror "like" films.........she's really good at playing tranquil when her behavior conveys something else.
I would have really loved to see her take a crack at something like Midsommar in the Pugh role - she's made for something like that - and Watcher - the first really good performance by an American actress I've seen all year is sort of a similar role - at least in taking her character and dislocating her in terms of her environment and geography and disorienting effect.
One of the more interesting presences in American movies in her age range that I've seen in the past few years ......
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 20, 2023 19:09:07 GMT
Mariana di Girolamo I've seen her in 2 movies: Larrain's Ema and La Verónica - which I just covered in The Last Great Performance You Saw thread. 2 performances both great.......and in La Verónica a very conceptual, unusual and smartly conceived piece of work......
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Post by wallsofjericho on Mar 20, 2023 21:11:56 GMT
Been rewatching a lot of Philip Seymour Hoffman. Still so missed. Can only imagine how much more amazing his body of work would have been over the past 9 years.
Also Peter Ustinov. Wondering if Barry Keoghan brings an Ustinov type flare to his Gladiator performance though I'm not too sure about the character he is playing.
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Post by TylerDeneuve on Mar 21, 2023 15:41:47 GMT
Reading Frances Mayes' newest book has of course rekindled my love for Diane Lane (whom she played in Under the Tuscan Sun), with her warm, sensuous beauty and intuitive talent. I caught up with Let Him Go, and I also watched a film from her child star days, Touched by Love - she will absolutely break your heart in both. ( Mattsby ) I can't quite commit to Lonesome Dove, despite starring another one of my actressing obsessions (Anjelica Huston)... someone convince me to invest the time, please! Edit: I forgot to mention her lovely voice - so warm and relaxing! It's like that first delicious spoonful of a perfectly-prepared crème brûlée...
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Post by stephen on Mar 21, 2023 15:48:09 GMT
I can't quite commit to Lonesome Dove, despite starring another one of my actressing obsessions (Anjelica Huston)... someone convince me to invest the time, please! Lonesome Dove is mandatory watching, and frankly everyone in it is operating at their career peaks. I would say Huston and Lane, good as they are, aren't even the female standout -- that's Glenne Headly, who earned an Emmy nod for her performance in it. But honestly, if someone were to call it the greatest TV miniseries of all time, I wouldn't argue. It's one of the greatest adaptations of a literary masterpiece around, and I would say William D. Wittliff improved upon the source material with a few deft decisions. Duvall's never been better. Jones has never been better. Watch it.
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Post by ibbi on Mar 21, 2023 16:15:25 GMT
I can't quite commit to Lonesome Dove, despite starring another one of my actressing obsessions (Anjelica Huston)... someone convince me to invest the time, please! Some people, not naming names, have compared Duvall and Jones chemistry here to that of Ferrero and Sorrel in the 60s. If that doesn't work... Invest the time you *beep* *beep* *beep* or I'll *beep* your *beep* *beep*
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Post by Mattsby on Apr 6, 2023 20:03:10 GMT
Hiroyuki Sanada - Born in 1960, he’s been acting since 1965. Sonny Chiba’s protégé, they did around 20 movies together. But on his own, he was an underrated leading man… Roaring Fire (1982) Succession (1992) Vengeance for Sale (2002) I just marathoned those along with some straighter, soulful work in the obscure Mahjong Horoki (1984) and Oscar-nominated The Twilight Samurai (2002). I wanted to single out the afore three bc of their even distance and shared tones of slapstick comedy. In a way they suggest he could’ve been - perhaps he was? - the Jackie Chan of Japan. Around 40y/o… he does Ringu (1998), he plays The Fool opposite Nigel Hawthorne’s Lear for the Royal Shakespeare Company ’99-2000….. and offers completely contrasting, both highly impressive samurai pics in 2002 --- Vengeance for Sale, and The Twilight Samurai. Around here he peaks, proving great range. Then he’s cast in Hollywood-breakout The Last Samurai. Soon after, he moves to LA. He's done lots of blockbusters, but actually hasn’t had a lead or done a Japanese movie since! Now 62… he does have a big Hulu series upcoming, Shogun, as co-star. Looking forward to it. I’m pretty much done with my marathon after 7-8 movies, but I'm very curious how he’s perceived in Japan…. By critics and public. Was he a missed-opportunity actor? Bonafide star? Underrated icon? Hollywood sellout?
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Post by Nikan on Apr 6, 2023 22:15:30 GMT
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