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Post by Mattsby on May 1, 2020 0:52:49 GMT
As the song goes, "Baby it's old outside." (Something like that.) I was just thinking last decade we probably saw the most "great" perfs from actors 80y/o+ than ever before, maybe? And how the damn corona is starting this decade off badly, older actors might be the last to return to set.
Christopher Plummer was a force - Beginners, Remember, smaller roles but quite charming in Danny Collins, Knives Out......
Clint Eastwood - The Mule
Harry Dean Stanton - Lucky
Jean-Louis Trintignant/Emmanuelle Riva - Amour
Alan Alda - Horace and Pete
Anthony Hopkins, The Two Popes. Speaking of which...
I also wanted to start this thread to look forward to Hopkins in The Father & Sophia Loren in The Life Ahead (Netflix) - both right now seem like Oscar contenders, and in categories that don't favor the old: no Lead Actor over 80 has ever been nom'd, and only one (Riva) for Actress.
I'm going by age during filming btw, but we'll be lenient.
I'm missing everyone before the 2010s! So, Who else?
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Post by stephen on May 1, 2020 0:54:36 GMT
The king himself, Harry Dean Stanton, in Lucky.
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Post by Mattsby on May 1, 2020 1:02:41 GMT
Harder to come up with older examples.... But here's one. Henrik Malberg was 80 when he filmed Ordet (1955). His perf snuck up on me about halfway thru - after the family tragedy, how the tone of his voice becomes weaker and more deliberate, how he slouches like the weight of reality is pushing on him. There's a deeper suffering and crisis of faith we sense underneath the mourning..... His imposing patriarchy dwindles, and we feel for him. It's a seriously great, sad perf....
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2020 1:03:56 GMT
Love your Riva/Trintignant mention! The first that came to mind for me was Mildred Natwick in Dangerous Liaisons - her last film, sadly. Charming and vivacious, but also poignant. Her scenes with Pfeiffer were really beautifully acted... she knows exactly who her nephew is.
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Post by Javi on May 1, 2020 1:18:33 GMT
Hopkins and Loren are my most anticipated perfs, and in the 2020 context especially why not celebrate 2 bonafide legends while we still have them?
Then again they didn't care when they had Riva, Huppert, Pacino right there in recent years ... and they were all significantly better than the (younger, duller) winners we got imo.
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Post by pacinoyes on May 1, 2020 1:26:36 GMT
Duvall got an Oscar nod after 80 in The Judge......I assume Pacino will kick the ass of his 80s but that is cheating I guess for now Cagney in Ragtime (I think?) and Terrible Joe Moran
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Post by coop032 on May 1, 2020 2:46:28 GMT
Hal Holbrook was great in Into the Wild
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Post by sirjeremy on May 1, 2020 8:45:27 GMT
I loved Jessica Tandy in Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe.
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Post by fiosnasiob on May 1, 2020 10:32:23 GMT
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Post by Mattsby on May 6, 2020 18:36:43 GMT
Maggie Smith - Lady in a Van (2015). I think she turned 80 during production so close enough. She plays the feeble, mentally-off homeless lady with alertness and a surprising quickness in her line-readings and reactions - she’s hilarious here and very affecting too. Golden Globe & BAFTA nodded. She’s just outside my personal 5 for the year, but I would’ve Oscar nom’d her over J-Law or Brie Larson... Two more - N/S Ralph Richardson - Greystoke Alan Arkin - Kominsky Method
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Post by fiosnasiob on May 6, 2020 20:11:47 GMT
Ruth Gordon acted in quite a few films at over 80 and she was a joy to watch until the end. Her best is definitely as the mystery writer (and murderer) Abigail Mitchell in Columbo's Try and Catch Me. She and Falk are a delight together.
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Post by wattsnew on May 14, 2020 21:28:40 GMT
Farnsworth in Straight Story (technically 79 but whatever)
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Post by fiosnasiob on May 17, 2020 13:44:11 GMT
Legendary and tireless (still working at 95) actress Anita Linda in both Lola (2009) and especially Adela (2008).
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Post by fiosnasiob on May 18, 2020 20:38:30 GMT
Michel Piccoli (RIP) in Habemus Papam
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Post by Mattsby on May 24, 2020 17:42:24 GMT
Tsai Chin , Lucky Grandma (2020) - an entertaining low-budget action-drama set in Chinatown NYC - the criminal aspects are amateurish but the movie rests on Chin's shoulders - at 85 years old and she's a hilarious, badass lead - nails the comic timing and the later emotional moments. Quick background on Tsai Chin - a sensation in '59 West End as the star of The World of Suzie Wong, works in the movies with Ingrid Bergman, Antonioni (Blowup), as a Bond girl in You Only Live Twice, and a recurring role in Christopher Lee's Fu Manchu movies. Takes over 20 years off the movies (she was a 'cultural liaison' of post-revolution China, teaching/directing Chekhov, Shakespeare, etc - also appeared in Hopkins' M Butterfly in the late 80s), returns to the movies with The Joy Luck Club, Memoirs of a Geisha, wins an Obie in '97, and so on. What I'm saying is she's a living legend!
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Post by Mattsby on Feb 1, 2021 21:17:15 GMT
Bumping for a few mentions and to ask.....: Who 80 or older has potentially good perfs coming this year? Once again, Clint is a big one, Cry Macho... also looking forward to Tom Courtenay in The North Water. Also wanna shout out Donald Sutherland who is doing some amazing and underrated work after 80. It seems if you give him a scene, he won't let it down. That was proved in The Undoing as well as The Burnt Orange Heresy where he gets a few monologues and gives them a sad, mysterious air. And we haven't mentioned him in Trust (FX) which is a mostly very impressive perf in his demeanor and glinting ego and kinda surprising too in what he's asked to do. also cheesecake and stephen who may have seen Lucky Grandma (?) - Check the previous post.
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 1, 2021 21:32:36 GMT
Hopkins in The Father is to me is a beautiful performance - that's a masterclass imo .......The GOAT depending on the size of his part in Gucci (no jinx!) and how quick Scott can work (yeah I know, he works very quick).....also I think stephen may be sleeping on some of his faves (um) also when it comes to The North Water a BBC series (4 episodes) that's been delayed talked about forever and stars lots of um, stars Colin Farrell, Jack O'Connell, Peter Mullan, Stephen Graham and the over 80 guy to watch Tom Courtenay Could be great ........and premieres later this year on BBC....no date afaik though
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Post by franklin on Feb 2, 2021 0:37:36 GMT
Anthony Hopkins in The Father is easily the greatest performance ever given by an actor over 80.
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