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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2020 19:10:18 GMT
The Criterion Channel is currently streaming a retrospective on his work, so I was finally able to see his towering, Oscar-winning performance in Elmer Gantry. He's always been one of my absolute favorites (he, Clift, Mastroianni, Newman, and Trintignant would round out my Top 5 ) - one of the rare cases of a Classic Hollywood actor who could disarm with both his masculine force and his gentle sensitivity. Please, share your thoughts.
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Post by stephen on Jan 4, 2020 19:18:13 GMT
A tremendously talented, compulsively watchable screen presence. For my money, he was sort of the proto-Paul Newman, in that while he was very good in his youth, he got real good with age. He also was a very fine screen partner who could augment anyone against him.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 4, 2020 19:21:56 GMT
Love him.......and he's big in the pacinoyes family too - he's my mother's favorite actor - think about that statement for a second A solid actor in the 40s and 50s who shifted into a different gear in the 60s and had a staggeringly good and varied decade and ended his career in a completely dignified and classy way too. In fact, the next classic movie on my list is a personal fave of mine, 1948's fabulously titled "Kiss The Blood Off My Hands" with Joan Fontaine....
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2020 19:34:35 GMT
His frantic power in Elmer Gantry couldn't help but remind me of Day-Lewis in Gangs of New York - obviously different kinds of films/characters, but I think it's rare to see an actor be such a commanding presence - just mesmerizing, really.
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Post by jimmalone on Jan 4, 2020 19:41:51 GMT
One of my favorites as well. Not as in Top 5 as for you, but Top 25, which is still very high.
He had a fantastic screen presence. I love that scene in Judgement at Nuremberg, when his character finally talks and Burt stands up and just owns the whole room. I think you are spot on with what you are saying about his mix of impressive physis and sensitivity, Birdman of Alcatraz, Separate Tables or From Here to Eternity are great examples of it. He was also a master of very restrained performances to portray his character as superior, calm or menacing, depending on what the role asked for.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2020 2:47:30 GMT
Love him.......and he's big in the pacinoyes family too - he's my mother's favorite actor - think about that statement for a second A solid actor in the 40s and 50s who shifted into a different gear in the 60s and had a staggeringly good and varied decade and ended his career in a completely dignified and classy way too. In fact, the next classic movie on my list is a personal fave of mine, 1948's fabulously titled "Kiss The Blood Off My Hands" with Joan Fontaine.... She must really love The Killers! - isn't Ava Gardner her favorite actress? It's amazing to think that one film launched the careers of two of cinema's greatest stars.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 5, 2020 7:47:59 GMT
Love him.......and he's big in the pacinoyes family too - he's my mother's favorite actor - think about that statement for a second A solid actor in the 40s and 50s who shifted into a different gear in the 60s and had a staggeringly good and varied decade and ended his career in a completely dignified and classy way too. In fact, the next classic movie on my list is a personal fave of mine, 1948's fabulously titled "Kiss The Blood Off My Hands" with Joan Fontaine.... She must really love The Killers! - isn't Ava Gardner her favorite actress? It's amazing to think that one film launched the careers of two of cinema's greatest stars. Good memory on mom's movie taste! - I only wish people could remember the actors and actresses I like - I love The Killers ('46) too - made my list on the greatest crime films poll we did and has an ace remake too with Lee Marvin ('64).........they make a great double feature......
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Post by Longtallsally on Jan 5, 2020 10:19:57 GMT
I especially love him in his collaborations with Luchino Visconti, The Leopard (1963) and Conversation Piece (1974).
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Post by TerryMontana on Jan 5, 2020 14:23:42 GMT
I have to see more of his work but I really love him in Birdman of Alcatraz and From Here to Eternity.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2020 16:17:12 GMT
I especially love him in his collaborations with Luchino Visconti, The Leopard (1963) and Conversation Piece (1974).Same. These films are what initially endeared me to him and made me seek out his Old Hollywood work. Have you seen the British film from the early 80s called Local Hero? Lancaster is hilarious in it (BAFTA nomination!) and the film itself is really whimsical and lovely.
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Post by therealcomicman117 on Jan 5, 2020 20:28:15 GMT
Lancaster is one of the screens great "vulnerable men", often playing characters that are tormented by something in their past. Out of his entire filmography, my favorite films of his that I've seen so are The Professionals, and Sweet Smell of Success, but he's given so many other great performances as well.
It should also be noted he was one the first major stars to really take control of his career. After 1952, he was involved with the production of most of the films he starred in.
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Post by Longtallsally on Jan 5, 2020 22:19:30 GMT
I especially love him in his collaborations with Luchino Visconti, The Leopard (1963) and Conversation Piece (1974).Same. These films are what initially endeared me to him and made me seek out his Old Hollywood work. Have you seen the British film from the early 80s called Local Hero? Lancaster is hilarious in it (BAFTA nomination!) and the film itself is really whimsical and lovely. No, unfortunately not.
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Post by getclutch on Jan 11, 2020 2:18:38 GMT
A legend in my book. Always admired his performance in Brute Force. I heard somewhere both Clark Gable & Gary Cooper disliked working with him for some reason. No idea why.
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