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Post by Mattsby on Nov 11, 2019 16:45:33 GMT
Gena Rowlands, Uma Thurman, Juliette Lewis in Hysterical Blindness - Maybe not "Greatest" but achingly real and rarely do you see 3 in one film like this...... I checked this out last night - kinda loved it, idk why HBO doesn't have it up on their service! Uma's best perf I've seen - EDIT: forgot Pulp Fiction which is by far her best lol /Edit - at times unrecognizable and there's a really heartbreaking and bothered quality to her especially in the physicality. Lotta moments that are both funny and then really sad, like the "I'm...aloof" moment at the bar and Juliette Lewis's serious reaction. Lewis is amazing in this too. Neither of their characters have matured out of the fickle angsty ease of their teen years. And then Rowlands, always a wonder, somehow packs the biggest emotional punch. Everything directed and filmed with a close active camera and great amount of detail and feeling. Thx for the rec!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2019 17:32:41 GMT
Have you seen Samantha Morton in Langford? Nope - I gotta get to that! Definitely - it's such chilling work. Jim Broadbent and Andy Serkis are also reliably excellent.
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Jun 24, 2020 14:04:26 GMT
So we can add Cate Blanchett for Mrs. America here.
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Post by pupdurcs on Jun 24, 2020 15:42:13 GMT
So we can add Cate Blanchett for Mrs. America here. Not before we add Regina King in Watchmen, who needs to beat Blanchett to the Emmy in a just world.
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Jun 24, 2020 16:00:58 GMT
So we can add Cate Blanchett for Mrs. America here. Not before we add Regina King in Watchmen, who needs to beat Blanchett to the Emmy in a just world. Her too.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jun 24, 2020 17:21:57 GMT
All the Unbelievable ladies. Merritt Weaver is a pitch-perfect acting study on a character struggling to hold everything back; mesmerizing in an understated role that might've been boring but that she made essential and unique. Kaitlyn Dever as the traumatized victim facing disbelief on all sides. And the eternally-wonderful Colette as the no-nonsense hardened detective. A flawless trio.
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Post by Drish on Jun 24, 2020 17:26:10 GMT
All the Unbelievable ladies. Merritt Weaver is a pitch-perfect acting study on a character struggling to hold everything back; mesmerizing in an understated role that might've been boring but that she made essential and unique. Kaitlyn Dever as the traumatized victim facing disbelief on all sides. And the eternally-wonderful Colette as the no-nonsense hardened detective. A flawless trio. I agree everything you said. Everything. Yet I feel Danielle MacDonald stole the show with her heartbreaking performance. And kinda overlooked.
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Post by Mattsby on Jun 26, 2020 22:19:04 GMT
Some other underrated ones I've seen relatively recently, first three from small 50min movies -
Olivia Cole - The Sky is Gray Shelley Duvall - Bernice Bobs Her Hair Geraldine Page - A Christmas Memory
Stockard Channing/Laura Dern - The Baby Dance Susan Sarandon - Who Am I This Time? Judy Davis - One Against the Wind
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Post by ibbi on Jun 27, 2020 11:56:12 GMT
Throw Emily Watson in Appropriate Adult on the list. A wonderful companion to Longford.
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Post by urbanpatrician on Jul 6, 2020 12:34:30 GMT
Here are all the Lead Actress wins I give to an actress in a mini-series or a TV movie. Big Little Lies is not a mini-series - it's a show since it got its 2nd season.
'83: Rachel Ward - The Thorn Birds (miniseries) '84: Jane Fonda - The Dollmaker (TV movie) '86: Cheryl Ladd - Crossings (TV movie) '05: Lisa Kudrow - The Comeback (miniseries) SUPERWIN '12: Hayley Atwell - Restless (TV movie) '19: Hailee Steinfeld - Dickinson (miniseries) HIGHERCALIBERWIN '20: Reese Witherspoon - Little Fires Everywhere (miniseries) HIGHERCALIBERWIN
Jessica Lange should be my win for Feud ('17) as well, but just something about that feels like a TV show instead of a miniseries so not sure how I count that. If it's a mini-series though she wins easily over anyone in film that year.
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Post by Mattsby on Nov 22, 2021 21:03:05 GMT
Some more favs since last posting. Gena Rowlands, Bette Davis - Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter (1979)Anna Magnani - The Automobile (1971)Katharine Hepburn - Love Among the Ruins (1975)Karen Black - Trilogy of Terror (1975)Ingrid Bergman, Judy Davis - A Woman Called Golda (1982)Bette, Ingrid, and Hepburn won Emmys, as did these next two, which I just watched. Shoutout @tyler who mentioned them on page one. Judy Davis, Tammy Blanchard - Life with Judy Garland (2001) Their perfs add great nerve and elevate the movie. Davis is a GOAT contending actress, and this should be said at least once a week on MAR that we may be forgiven our sins (leaving her off our Top 50 Greatest Actress poll in 2018.... I had her at #8 then, she'd make my Top 5 now). 12 Emmy noms and a few wins for miniseries and tv movies, she's practically empress of this thread...and she's portrayed a range of people-- Judy Garland, Golda Meir, Hedda Hopper, Nancy Reagan, etc.
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Post by mhynson27 on Nov 23, 2021 5:47:39 GMT
Our most recent Emmy winner, Winslet in Mare of Easttown
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Post by LaraQ on Nov 23, 2021 17:36:03 GMT
Sarah Lancashire in Happy Valley.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2021 3:34:08 GMT
Glenn Close in In the Gloaming - it's such a beautiful film, too (directed by Christopher Reeve!). Highly recommend.
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Post by jakesully on Nov 27, 2021 2:51:54 GMT
One of the best performances in any mini series in recent memory was by Amy Adams' amazingly tortured /damaged role in Sharp Objects. It was so hard to watch but oh so entertaining. I was also so pleasantly surprised with Jessica Biel's performance in The Sinner (she blew me away in her season. I honestly didn't think she had it in her to give such a powerful performance like that but she did and really really impressed the hell out of me. ) Also shout out to Regina King's heroic fearless lead performance in Watchmen. and imo Merritt Wever was so outstanding in both Netflix's Godless AND Unbelievable (I still need to see her in HBO's Run sometime soon. I've read mixed reviews regarding that show though ) But then Kate the Great Winsalot comes along with her mini series Mare of Easttown and says "Hold my vape pen" and destroys the competition. I can't think of a better performance by any actor OR actress (regardless of gender) in recent memory that is on the same level as Kate Winslet's incredible triumph of a role in that mini series. I'd probably have to go all the way back to 2013 with Bryan Cranston in the final season of Breaking Bad. She was THAT great!
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