What's your favorite Diane Keaton performance?

Annie Hall
GF II
Looking for mr. Goodbar

Looking for Mr. Goodbar is probably my favorite, but man, I think I love her in just about anything she does. Even if the film is bad, she rarely is, and I think she's got such a fantastic energy and magnetism that few others can match.

The Tiger Lady. 

Well her best performance was probably convincing this loudmouth midget that she dated for almost 20 years that she somehow didn't find him annoying af.   

I would say that Looking For Mr. Goodbar is her most daring......... but I'll take Shoot the Moon - where she does the most with the least - where she's acting with a GOAT (Albert Finney) level actor, doesn't have anything quirky or exotic in the portrayal and makes it real, at times heartbreaking (when she smokes the joint, one of her great scenes) and transcends just being "the ex-wife".

Both of those performances are spectacular in that movie and cast a lesser actress she'd get blown of the screen by Big Al(bert).

Which reminds me .............she interacted with 4 of my top few actors - ever - DePac, Nicholson, Finney and held her own if not more every time.

Probably Annie Hall or Manhattan.

But she's very good in the first Godfather as well and really gets dismissed there. She's the eyes of the audience and really anchors the movie. That last scene is really well handled as well, she knows Michael's lying and you can see the wheels turning with her deciding to accept it and bury it in her mind. That was a very delicate thing to handle, you could either overplay your hand and it would be too obvious or she would just come off as oblivious.

I've said before if Keaton had continued to periodically do prestige dramas post-Reds she could have had a Katharine Hepburn type career. But she says comedy is just what she likes to do.

REDS.   end game.



1981 - French Lieutenant's Woman, Reds, The Postman Always Rings Twice

1982 - Sophie's Choice, Frances, Shoot the Moon



Those 3 were like America's gals during that period.   Pelle you truly think Keaton in Shoot the Moon is better than Lange in Frances?

Looking for Mr. Goodbar

Hmm... I haven't seen Mrs. Soffel. ^ That picture is kind of hot.

I always used to rave about it on here (especially breaking down that train station scene haha) but my love still stands for her performance in Reds above all.

But...

Runner Up: Shoot the Moon
Comedy: Love and Death