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Post by brancaleone on May 1, 2021 21:11:54 GMT
The Night of the Iguana
My Man Godfrey
They Shoot Horses, Don't They ?
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Post by Nikan on May 20, 2021 10:44:01 GMT
Answering my own thread a little: Henry V by Laurence Olivier. From 1:45 on, it's a sight to behold. The vocality, the posture, the text... all work solidly together. I'd recommend the whole film of course; which is naturally pro-Britain but is more creative and joyful than one might expect.
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Post by pacinoyes on May 20, 2021 11:02:53 GMT
Answering my own thread a little: Henry V by Laurence Olivier. From 1:45 on, it's a sight to behold. The vocality, the posture, the text... all work solidly together. I'd recommend the whole film of course; which is naturally pro-Britain but is more creative and joyful than one might expect. Looooooooooooooooooooooooove this mention. One of the things that separates Olivier from some others and makes him GOAT level rather than merely "great" (lower case) like the actors he's sometimes compared to Laughton, Guinness, Mason - all marvelous.......... but not as much .......is how he uses his total environment. The room and crowd in this case, or things he can use within the room and place himself within certain spaces that he uses to add a layer to his work - he is never anything like the "stiff" actor people accuse him of - it's one of the great falsehoods that gets repeated so much that people take it as "fact" - it's rather the exact opposite.........he's insanely modern. Here - how he moves and delivers this speech across the entire crowd and frames himself - he directed himself here of course - and his directing choice illuminates the performance and the text he's delivering - he's one of the great directors of himself - but you even see how he uses the total environment in things that he didn't direct too. He invented this stuff....... |
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Post by Nikan on May 20, 2021 11:32:46 GMT
pacinoyes what's funny is that, this being my first official Shakespearean adaptation of his, I was anticipating just that sort of "stiffness"... but that wasn't the case at all as the performance (and the film's whole vision) resonated more than a certain style or the time of it's release.
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Post by jakesully on May 21, 2021 0:59:04 GMT
Hmmm so many to choose from. Off the top of my heard here are my top films featuring the most impressive acting.
Goodfellas
Zodiac
The Master
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
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Post by Nikan on Sept 24, 2021 20:53:14 GMT
Just watched this... By God what a Knock-out. |
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Post by cherry68 on Sept 25, 2021 17:20:20 GMT
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead.
Oldman, Roth, Dreyfuss.
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Post by Nikan on Jan 13, 2022 21:41:06 GMT
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Post by jasonjoliepitt on Jan 20, 2022 17:29:49 GMT
THE HOURS for sure.
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