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Post by Mattsby on Apr 22, 2018 2:14:15 GMT
I rewatched Death and the Maiden recently and forgot just how great he is in that. Shifting gears from scared and confused to cleverly playing sides with the couple, the exhaustion and stamina, and that walloping monologue at the end. I haven't seen most of his TV work, and I've owned Pascali's Island and Turtle Diary for quite a while but haven't watched them yet, wheeooops. At any rate, my favorite perf is probably Betrayal (from '83 based on Harold Pinter's play) which I just love and always think about; I dunno if anyone has seen it here besides pacinoyes - ? 1. Betrayal2. Death and the Maiden3. House of Sand and Fog4. Schindler's List5. Sexy BeastThere are others too: Elegy, Gandhi, etc. What are your favorites? Underrated/underseen recs? |
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Post by stephen on Apr 22, 2018 2:20:48 GMT
1. Gandhi (one of the most deserved Oscar wins)
2. Schindler's List (fun fact: I think he's better than Fiennes)
3. Sexy Beast
4. Lucky Number Slevin (his final monologue is riveting)
5. House of Sand and Fog
Kingsley is guilty of taking on some real schlock in his career, but he can really be commanding when he wants to be.
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Post by therealcomicman117 on Apr 22, 2018 2:52:10 GMT
Gandhi
Schindler's List
Sexy Beast
Death and The Maiden
Hugo
HM to IM3 (he's great in it), and House of Sand & Fog
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 22, 2018 11:35:22 GMT
His Gandhi performance was a casting coup by Attenborough - Kingsley was theater actor who in his debut won Lead - that never happens - and of course that was a stacked year too.
Betrayal is an acting tour de force by him and Irons one of the great play adaptions and Turtle Diary is a slightly dull but impeccably written (by Pinter) and acted film with Glenda Jackson - before he did Bugsy he was really the DDL of his day - major actor, little work, prestige only. Bugsy, his 2nd time at the Oscars, made him seen not only great but versatile and populist too - you wondered "what can he NOT do? That's the Gandhi guy?"
At a certain point he realized he had to pay bills and eat but how many actors are "better" than him? Not many.....you know how actors get to a certain stature and feel they need to either preserve or deflate their screen persona? Well Kingsley did it before he got to that point and sometimes it resulted in work less technically proficient but more surprising (Elegy).
Agree with all the performances listed here in films probably beneath his beneath him but that's ok - Lucky Number Slevin, You Kill Me, I quite like his Fagin in Polanski's Oliver Twist and his at times his high camp Shutter Island appearance w/ Von Sydow.........quite droll as himself in his Sopranos cameo too!
I find Without A Clue a very funny parody of Sherlock Holmes and would recommend that for his interplay with a bumbling, wonderful Michael Caine.
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Post by ibbi on Apr 24, 2018 9:19:55 GMT
His Gandhi performance was a casting coup by Attenborough - Kingsley was theater actor who in his debut won Lead - that never happens - and of course that was a stacked year too. Betrayal is an acting tour de force by him and Irons one of the great play adaptions and Turtle Diary is a slightly dull but impeccably written (by Pinter) and acted film with Glenda Jackson - before he did Bugsy he was really the DDL of his day - major actor, little work, prestige only. Bugsy, his 2nd time at the Oscars, made him seen not only great but versatile and populist too - you wondered "what can he NOT do? That's the Gandhi guy?" At a certain point he realized he had to pay bills and eat but how many actors are "better" than him? Not many.....you know how actors get to a certain stature and feel they need to either preserve or deflate their screen persona? Well Kingsley did it before he got to that point and sometimes it resulted in work less technically proficient but more surprising (Elegy). Agree with all the performances listed here in films probably beneath his beneath him but that's ok - Lucky Number Slevin, You Kill Me, I quite like his Fagin in Polanski's Oliver Twist and his at times his high camp Shutter Island appearance w/ Von Sydow.........quite droll as himself in his Sopranos cameo too! I find Without A Clue a very funny parody of Sherlock Holmes and would recommend that for his interplay with a bumbling, wonderful Michael Caine. Without a Clue mention!  I like him most in Gandhi. To me that's one of those sort of undeniable ones. Whenever I see footage of the real Gandhi I always think to myself "That's not what Gandhi looks like!", I'd have Sexy Beast and House of Sand Fog as two and three. Two turns where he accomplishes so much by doing so little. Not sure of the order after that, but love him in Schindler's List, Iron Man 3, Elegy, Shutter Island, The Wackness, and the aforementioned Without a Clue. |
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