coop032
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Post by coop032 on Mar 6, 2020 1:09:14 GMT
Anytime you want to give some special love to a new performance you’ve seen or if there is something you love from the past and want to share the memory...I think it would really cool to have a thread for that!!!
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coop032
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Post by coop032 on Mar 6, 2020 1:22:25 GMT
Heard a podcast today about La Bamba and I was reminded of how amazing Esai Morales is as Ritchie Valens’ brother, Bob. I saw that movie so many times as a kid and the ending still brings me to tears every single time I watch. Morales played the role perfectly showing how much he loves and cares for his brother but also resenting him at the same time. Love it. If any of you haven’t seen La Bamba, please give it a chance. It’s a great music biopic without the usual drugs and fame formula.
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Mar 6, 2020 1:39:40 GMT
Russell Sams in The Rules of Attraction.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Mar 6, 2020 2:09:32 GMT
Hardy Krüger as the asshole engineer in Flight of the Phoenix. He declined the Globe nomination which I have to imagine played a role in his Oscar snub, but man what a performance, I'm never gonna shut up about it. His steely resolve and unyielding gaze is explosive by degrees, so when he does explode it feels a long time coming. Attenborough was great too (whole cast was) but Krüger holds the thing together as the quasi-antagonist who's the smartest guy in the room and knows it and isn't afraid to say it. There's a lot of anger there but also something admirable about his confidence. If Heinrich Dorfmann had been nominated for any accolades, I bet he would've declined 'em too. Krüger was my '65 winner for a long time until I saw The Hill.
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 6, 2020 9:36:05 GMT
One of my favorite female performances of the 2000s AND it's an amazingly assured debut in an insanely difficult piece - not naturalistic overtly, Biblical, hard to get, willfully stagy AND not many have seen because it's easier not to see it right? Just praise Amy Adams, Jennifer Lawrence, Margot Robbie - NONE of whom could have played this btw and I like them all but they couldn't. Just SEE it you acting hypocrites - then you can bitch about her "career" and how "overrated" she is - or whatever it is we do on here ......grrrrrr Salome/Wilde Salome- Jessica Chastain
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 6, 2020 18:27:37 GMT
I can't think of one leading male in his generation that can do the what he can do when he's on his A game, which is not enough actually .....................but still if you take just the first part of that sentence, it is quite a statement isn't it? Nicholas Cage - Matchstick Men
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Post by stephen on Mar 7, 2020 0:17:06 GMT
A performance so immersive that, to be honest, I didn't even recognize him until the last fifteen minutes of the movie. It's such an old-school turn that hearkens back to the days of Walter Brennan, and reminds you of the power of a really good character actor.
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 7, 2020 16:07:17 GMT
How many performances do you ever see that are not really well written characters (in this case a sub-Mamet rip-off), where the actor has no one close to his level to play off, is utterly contemptible (and this is 20 years BEFORE #metoo) and yet who you will always remember? That's Aaron Eckhart in In The Company Of Men playing a living, working incarnation of the Devil - and he is unforgettable here. The role didn't make him a star - he made the role and made a career from it.........and they wouldn't make it today and we'd feel we're smarter now too ....... but not really.
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Post by Mattsby on Mar 9, 2020 18:10:22 GMT
Only caught the beginning chunk of this last night - The Ghoul (1933) starring Boris Karloff who plays his death-bed scenes with a really slow sadness, and at certain angles looks just like Jeremy Irons - I can't be the first to make the connection? Side note: besides Dead Ringers, Irons has never done a straight-up horror movie? Damn, that seems like an avenue that we really missed out on with him and his signature smokiness, maybe it's not too late....
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 9, 2020 22:27:46 GMT
Michael Gambon - The Singing Detective (1986)Maybe the greatest thing in the history of TV - certainly in the upper tier- well, if you're in the mood for it at least. Gambon is tremendous and complex here and you watch it just knowing that he would never get this role in a movie - so it HAD to be on the BBC ........and maybe this was the first thing that suggested TV could really be better than the movies. Recommended for fans of noir, British TV landmarks, fans of David Lynch (in a way), great acting.....you know who you are.
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Post by stephen on Mar 9, 2020 22:45:56 GMT
This smooth motherfucker gives one of the best performances of the Devil (or, I guess, the Devil's liege) in what might be the most underrated Stephen King adaptation out there, one that's chockfull of outstanding performances (Amanda Plummer, J.T. Walsh).
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Post by Mattsby on Mar 13, 2020 19:52:34 GMT
I watched a couple of Lee Marvins recently, and sort of wanted to shout out how effectively he pulls off fight scenes - or could be just his tone opposite actors he's supposed to intimidate like the secretary in the beginning of The Killers remake. The gif above from Point Blank - there's a backstage fight at a music club earlier in the movie that's really great and intense. And a lesser known movie Shack Out on 101 (1955) - there's a later scene where he turns on his love interest and is literally throwing her around the room, it's pretty shocking to see. If there are other movies where he gets some stand-out fighting scenes (I'm sure there are!), someone lemme know!
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 14, 2020 18:31:25 GMT
Maurice Ronet- The Fire Within (1963)Ronet died on this date in 1983 at the age of 55 of cancer and here he gives one of the great male performances in French film at least of the decade and in the oddest of ways - so subtle to the point of being negligible. He's depressive and in looking for a reason to live he can't find a way in and can only see one way out. The energy of life and its complications wears him out and the director, Louis Malle asks him to embody this idea - it's one of the great performances of loneliness and one of amazing actor details too.
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Post by stabcaesar on Mar 14, 2020 19:07:03 GMT
I started binging The Americans. Currently half way in season 2 and I want to give a shout out to Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys, and Margo Martindale. Especially Keri Russell. I mean, WOW.
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Post by Mattsby on Apr 5, 2020 18:40:48 GMT
Dennis Farina, Midnight Run - wouldn't say it's a great perf, he's only in a few scenes, but I like him a lot here on my latest rewatch, got the biggest laughs from me ("Moron #1 put Moron #2 on..." and when he tells Philip Baker Hall to relax and drink a glass of milk) and has one great scene actually in the limo opposite Charles Grodin where he goes from snide to genuinely scary in one small monologue (“Number one - You’re gonna die tonight. Number two - ”). The man likes his lists.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Apr 8, 2020 18:35:23 GMT
Anthony Quinn, Zorba the GreekHaven't seen much noise about this perf on these boards but I'm crazy about it. Quinn's devil-may-care exuberance and just joy of being alive makes the character's intensity and bombast eminently watchable. Impossible to watch Zorba dance and not have a smile on your face. Zorba's character intro is one for the ages; his gruff and almost-menacing face peering through the dirty window at Alan Bates in that crowded Athens port. Cacoyannis cheekily playing with the viewer's expectations there. Brilliantly directed and staged. And the dancing!
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 12, 2020 11:09:00 GMT
J.T. Walsh - The GriftersThe Grifters is my favorite film of 1990 and one of my favorite books ever too but usually when I can find a fan of the movie - Walsh is 5th of who's mentioned it's always the big 3 and then Pat Hingle.......but Walsh fits marvelously into Jim Thompson's world he's the one guy you could see removed from the movie and dropped into many other Thompson adaptations. A guy who can play slick and also look like he's barely keeping it all together here.....almost like the con he's been running on himself has been exposed to himself. He did a lot of ace character work over the years but the more you read of Thompson you realize Walsh was perfect for his characters - he could be tough, slick, weak, exploiting or exploiter - it's a very memorable small turn in The Grifters and you just koow he loved playing this because it's so in his wheelhouse and has high highs and terrible, unforseen lows.
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 13, 2020 18:50:11 GMT
Peter Mullan - The Fear (re-watch)Still my favorite Mullan performance and reminds me very much of someone like Robert De Niro could give in the US where his masculinity is both terrifying and which shrouds his weaknesses (De Niro hasn't played anything quite like this but the US should have re-done this piece). What's interesting is how much of this mini-series I let slide because of good he is - this all needed to be longer, more detail on his mental decline and the criminal decline - but every moment he appears on screen is just riveting anyway - every smile masking some breakdown or threat - or threat of his breakdown. I've caught up on almost everything in his filmography but this will always hold a place in my heart.
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Post by Weaver Addict on Apr 16, 2020 2:55:23 GMT
Sandy Dennis and Betty Buckley in Another Woman. Both women have captive audiences with nowhere to run and I love it. Poor Gena Rowlands in both scenes!
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Post by Weaver Addict on Apr 16, 2020 3:24:02 GMT
J.T. Walsh - The GriftersThe Grifters is my favorite film of 1990 and one of my favorite books ever too but usually when I can find a fan of the movie - Walsh is 5th of who's mentioned it's always the big 3 and then Pat Hingle.......but Walsh fits marvelously into Jim Thompson's world he's the one guy you could see removed from the movie and dropped into many other Thompson adaptations. A guy who can play slick and also look like he's barely keeping it all together here.....almost like the con he's been running on himself has been exposed to himself. He did a lot of ace character work over the years but the more you read of Thompson you realize Walsh was perfect for his characters - he could be tough, slick, weak, exploiting or exploiter - it's a very memorable small turn in The Grifters and you just koow he loved playing this because it's so in his wheelhouse and has high highs and terrible, unforseen lows. I love this film (Angelica is my win and in my top 10 female), that urgent, piano score, Annette! wowsa! but JT is 6th (sadly) just after that motel clerk gal who says "everybody wants the back tonight." My buddy (god rest his soul) and I loved her. Your thoughts about JT, great character actor who left too soon, is totally spot on.
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Post by Weaver Addict on Apr 16, 2020 3:38:18 GMT
I fell in love in with Felicity Huffman ever since Sports Nights. Everyone has their ideas of what a manic depressive is and sounds like and I think she captures it beautifully in this particular scene from 2003 (HBO limited series).
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Apr 24, 2020 15:06:33 GMT
Jeff Cohen in The Goonies. I mean, pretty much everyone of them were great, but...
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Post by Drish on Apr 25, 2020 2:37:23 GMT
James Gandolfini, Edie Falco, Steve Carell and Rainn Wilson in their respective career defining roles.. I'm spending my quarantine watching nothing but these two shows and I love them so much.
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 25, 2020 15:08:30 GMT
Gary Oldman - State of Grace (1990) - re-watch At this point he was maybe the best young English speaking actor in the world or at least the one on the most impressive streak - he'd been great at least 3 times prior to this and here acting opposite his American peer - Sean Penn - in a way he steals the show and the movie - which also has some scene stealers of its own - Ed Harris, John C. Reilly, John Turturro. Oldman is riveting - the only times the movie has a pulse and rings true is when he on screen - you can't take your eyes off of him - and you can imagine many actors sort of doing this in a far lesser way (Mickey Rourke for one). He has a great acting moment where he is told "every time you turn around, someone ends up dead"........he takes the lines, answers it as he turns around (see : nobody's dead!) - so he's either improvising all of that or is acting it so precisely it seems entirely improvised. Either way.......greeeeeeeeeeeat. He's compelling when he is smoking, drinking, walking, with a gun, without one, laughing, about to go unhinged................. and clean his up he could play the lead role better too.
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Post by wallsofjericho on Apr 25, 2020 20:28:35 GMT
Gary Oldman - State of Grace (1990) - re-watch At this point he was maybe the best young English speaking actor in the world or at least the one on the most impressive streak - he'd been great at least 3 times prior to this and here acting opposite his American peer - Sean Penn - in a way he steals the show and the movie - which also has some scene stealers of its own - Ed Harris, John C. Reilly, John Turturro. Oldman is riveting - the only times the movie has a pulse and rings true is when he on screen - you can't take your eyes off of him - and you can imagine many actors sort of doing this in a far lesser way (Mickey Rourke for one). He has a great acting moment where he is told "every time you turn around, someone ends up dead"........he takes the lines, answers it as he turns around (see : nobody's dead!) - so he's either improvising all of that or is acting it so precisely it seems entirely improvised. Either way.......greeeeeeeeeeeat. He's compelling when he is smoking, drinking, walking, with a gun, without one, laughing, about to go unhinged................. and clean his up he could play the lead role better too. I always though that this was a role that would have been offered to Mickey Rourke. Oldman is dynamite in this. My favorite scene is the hands one. That scene feels somewhat improvised too.
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