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Post by Nikan on Nov 9, 2020 16:32:58 GMT
The kind that single-handedly earn one or two stars for their movies. The Bells of St. Mary isn't a bad film by any means, but oh is Ingrid Bergman a wonderful addition to this sequel to '44 Best Picture winner. Heart, humor, grace. You know the scene...
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Post by themoviesinner on Nov 9, 2020 16:52:37 GMT
Anthony Wong in Ebola Syndrome. It's mostly thanks to him that the film is one of the wackiest and funniest films of the 90s. I'll write it again that I consider his performance in this as one of the greaest of all time.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2020 18:42:25 GMT
Glenn Close in her two most recent Oscar-nominated roles.
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Post by pacinoyes on Nov 9, 2020 19:09:14 GMT
Too easy but........the performance is the film here.....no one likes the movie that doesn't like/love him....and some idolize both to an insane degree beyond cult .... there is almost no actor/film precedent for this performance prior in American film at all actually if you think about it. People often say this same thing about Peter O'Toole or Denzel Washington because they had Oscar runs where their performances were the sole Oscar nominees in their movies (like Glenn Close in The Wife)..........but they never really raised their films that high to me - ie so their performances are usually good or better in movies that are merely raised (usually) to ok/pretty good but are worth seeing for them..... Johnny Depp when he was at his most creative/imaginative (1990s) used to do this too.......... like Washington, O'Toole, Close etc.
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Post by TerryMontana on Nov 9, 2020 19:40:57 GMT
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Post by stephen on Nov 9, 2020 19:48:49 GMT
Janet McTeer gives such an all-timer of a performance in Albert Nobbs that she makes an otherwise stupefyingly dull film watchable.
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Post by Nikan on Nov 9, 2020 20:45:11 GMT
Too easy but........ the performance is the film here.....no one likes the movie that doesn't like/love him....and some idolize both to an insane degree beyond cult .... there is almost no actor/film precedent for this performance prior in American film at all actually if you think about it. Al's cannon should be full of these... I probably agree with you on that, as I think he's completely entertaining here (makes the film feel way shorter to me than it's actual runtime)... but I don't quite love it. Where do you rank it in DePalma's filmography...and what do you think of Hawks film? + It's an uncontroversial pick but I should mention last year's Joker too.
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Post by Nikan on Nov 9, 2020 20:47:33 GMT
Janet McTeer gives such an all-timer of a performance in Albert Nobbs that she makes an otherwise stupefyingly dull film watchable. Some movies and performances would never be on my radar if it wasn't for you championing them ever so passionately
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Post by TerryMontana on Nov 9, 2020 20:59:09 GMT
In such discussions, I always try to think of mediocre or just ok movies that I ended up loving because of the acting. And this one is a pretty obvious answer, I think.
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Post by pacinoyes on Nov 9, 2020 21:07:27 GMT
Too easy but........ the performance is the film here.....no one likes the movie that doesn't like/love him....and some idolize both to an insane degree beyond cult .... there is almost no actor/film precedent for this performance prior in American film at all actually if you think about it. Al's cannon should be full of these... I probably agree with you on that, as I think he's completely entertaining here (makes the film feel way shorter to me than it's actual runtime)... but I don't quite love it. Where do you rank it in DePalma's filmography...and what do you think of Hawks film? I love De Palma's work and in his peak especially (76-83) I love all those movies (Blow Out is an all-time fave) - except The Fury which is an honorable failure to me ......Scarface to me is the 4th best of those big 4 he made in that run and maybe I'd rank it under Carlito's Way too.......the DePalma/Pacino collaborations are special in how he shoots Pacino - in other movies actors are usually chess pieces for De Palma.........with Pacino he's more an entire set piece to move and shoot around and exploit - he always shoots him moving, walking, running, like an animal in some way .....and at odd angles to convey movement, momentum and pace .........something kinetic and alive for his camera to capture and for De Palma to convey to us - they were really great together. I quite like the Hawks version too ....there are all kinds of little things he does visually that are much more stylized and complicated than Public Enemy and Little Caesar ........it pops in a way that to me seems very modern ..........even now where those seem far flatter imo
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Post by sirjeremy on Nov 9, 2020 22:53:14 GMT
Streep in a lot of her films over the past couple of decades but especially in Hope Springs and The Iron Lady. Going further back, she was the best thing about Falling in Love.
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Emma Thompson in Late Night. Jane Fonda in Monster-in-Law. Nigel Hawthorne in The Object of My Affection. Miranda Richardson and Rosemary Harris in Tom & Viv. Anne Bancroft in Garbo Talks! Maggie Smith in California Suite. Glenda Jackson in Hedda.
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Nov 9, 2020 23:57:12 GMT
Not gonna lie, one of the first things that came to mind was Jamie Lee Curtis in Freaky Friday.
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Post by DanQuixote on Nov 10, 2020 13:04:00 GMT
Under the Silver Lake sucks, but Andrew Garfield is quite good in it.
Jojo Rabbit is also god-awful, but Scarlett Johansson is so luminous and warm in it despite her dodgy accent.
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Post by pacinoyes on Nov 10, 2020 17:37:36 GMT
I've mentioned this one in some other threads - Damian Lewis in Keane (2004) - elevates the movie to far better than good, he is giving a tour de force in a part with a condition played memorably by Russell Crowe, Ralph Fiennes and Peter Greene (fantastic) in Clean, Shaven and he is better and more convincing than all 3. One of the best performances of the 00s ......
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Post by Nikan on Nov 10, 2020 19:07:37 GMT
I've mentioned this one in some other threads - Damian Lewis in Keane (2004) - elevates the movie to far better than good, he is giving a tour de force in a part with a condition played memorably by Russell Crowe, Ralph Fiennes and Peter Greene (fantastic) in Clean, Shaven and he is better and more convincing than all 3. One of the best performances of the 00s ......always thought that's Eddie Redmayne on Clean, Shaven's criterion cover 2004 keeps giving amazing male lead performances doesn't it... I already am struggling to pick one favorite (It's between Giamatti and JGL at the moment), then I hear of Kevin Bacon and now this.
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Post by stephen on Nov 10, 2020 19:11:27 GMT
I've mentioned this one in some other threads - Damian Lewis in Keane (2004) - elevates the movie to far better than good, he is giving a tour de force in a part with a condition played memorably by Russell Crowe, Ralph Fiennes and Peter Greene (fantastic) in Clean, Shaven and he is better and more convincing than all 3. One of the best performances of the 00s ......always thought that's Eddie Redmayne on Clean, Shaven's criterion cover 2004 keeps giving amazing male lead performances doesn't it... I already am struggling to pick one favorite (It's between Giamatti and JGL at the moment), then I hear of Kevin Bacon and now this. Sure hope you're considering Javier Bardem in The Sea Inside as well.
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Post by Nikan on Nov 10, 2020 19:27:05 GMT
always thought that's Eddie Redmayne on Clean, Shaven's criterion cover 2004 keeps giving amazing male lead performances doesn't it... I already am struggling to pick one favorite (It's between Giamatti and JGL at the moment), then I hear of Kevin Bacon and now this. Sure hope you're considering Javier Bardem in The Sea Inside as well. I've only seen a handful from Bardem and he's supporting in all of them Come to think of it, he has remained Anton Chigurh for me for 13 years now...
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Post by stephen on Nov 10, 2020 19:36:16 GMT
Sure hope you're considering Javier Bardem in The Sea Inside as well. I've only seen a handful from Bardem and he's supporting in all of them Come to think of it, he has remained Anton Chigurh for me for 13 years now... He's lead in The Sea Inside, and not only is he my win, it's also my Best Picture winner. Can't recommend it enough.
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Post by Nikan on Nov 10, 2020 19:37:37 GMT
Robin Williams went dark in 2002... and is pretty much the only thing you'd remember Death to Smoochy and One-Hour Photo by.
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Post by JangoB on Nov 12, 2020 10:32:31 GMT
I found "In the Valley of Elah" to be a fairly decent film but it's undoubtedly elevated by Tommy Lee Jones's excellent turn. Definitely deserving of his seemingly out-of-nowhere Oscar nomination. A wonderful portrayal of a determined and stoic character torn by inner pain.
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Post by finniussnrub on Nov 13, 2020 2:32:29 GMT
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Post by HELENA MARIA on Nov 14, 2020 1:41:41 GMT
Sally Kirkland in ANNA (1987) comes to mind .A very uneven film but Sally's performance is definitely not.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Nov 14, 2020 6:41:03 GMT
I don't really frame it like that. If I enjoy a performance in a film I didn't like, it's more about me appreciating that performance in spite of the film around it. I love Albert Finney in Big Fish but his perf only "elevates" the film in the sense that I'm significantly less bothered when he's onscreen, but it's not like I have fond memories of the movie around him just because he's in it. That's just how I compartmentalize.
I can think of a couple examples like that--perfs I love in movies I really dislike: Robert Duvall, The Judge Robert Duvall, The Apostle Meryl Streep, The River Wild Jaye Davidson, The Crying Game Vivien Leigh & Michael Dunn, Ship of Fools Alec Baldwin, The Cooler Goldie Hawn, Private Benjamin Edward Norton, Primal Fear
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Post by franklin on Nov 26, 2020 14:42:24 GMT
Daniel Day Lewis as Bill The Butcher in Gangs of New York (even though the film itself is still pretty good by Scorsese standards).
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Post by pacinoyes on Nov 26, 2020 14:51:14 GMT
I mentioned one recently in the "Last Great Performance You've Seen" - Karen Viard - The Perfect Nanny (2019)Not only the best performance I've seen recently in a pretty bad movie - without her it might be a Lifetime movie even.......and no one ever talks about her on here and this is a movie board 13 César nominations (including this one) - 3 wins....wtf people.......
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