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Favorite Film Performances

carnzee

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Favorite Film Performances#1
Posted: 4/22/17 at 10:19am

What are your favorite film performances?

Mine are as follows, in chronological order :

Renee Falconetti, The Passion of Joan of Arc

Katharine Hepburn, The Philadelphia Story

Barbara Stanwyck, The Lady Eve

Bette Davis, All About Eve

Rosalind Russel, Auntie Mame

Kim Stanley, The Goddess

Shelley Winters, Lolita

Geraldine Page, Whatever Happened to Aunt Alice?

Imelda Staunton, Vera Drake

Joaquin Phoenix, The Master

Amy Adams, American Hustle

Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle

Sarah Paulson, Twelve years a slave

Emma Stone, La La Land

Updated On: 4/23/17 at 10:19 AM

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Favorite Film Performances#2
Posted: 4/22/17 at 10:28am

Kim Jong Il - Team America

Stephanatic

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Favorite Film Performances#3
Posted: 4/22/17 at 7:09pm

Geraldine Page - Trip to Bountiful

An astonishing performance.

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Favorite Film Performances#4
Posted: 4/22/17 at 7:53pm

Amy Adams in Arrival

But that doesn't matter, because we're all here. And with all of our differences we have one thing in common. We're all gay.

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Favorite Film Performances#5
Posted: 4/22/17 at 8:11pm

Vivian Leigh in Streetcar.

Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!

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Favorite Film Performances#6
Posted: 4/22/17 at 9:15pm

Liam Neeson - Schindlers.

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Favorite Film Performances#7
Posted: 4/22/17 at 10:55pm

F. Murray Abraham - AMADEUS

Hillary Swank - BOYS DON'T CRY

Ellen Burstyn - REQUIEM FOR A DREAM

<-----I'M TOTES ROLLING MY EYES

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Favorite Film Performances#8
Posted: 4/23/17 at 5:47pm

Off the top of my head: Oscar Isaac in Ex Machina and Kyle MacLachlan in Blue Velvet.

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Favorite Film Performances#9
Posted: 4/23/17 at 9:31pm

Judy Parfitt in Dolores Claiborne.

"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson

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Favorite Film Performances#10
Posted: 4/23/17 at 11:37pm

Natalie Wood in SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS

Martin Sheen in BADLANDS

Chris Sarandon in DOG DAY AFTERNOON

Jane Fonda in KLUTE

Michael Douglas in WALL STREET

Jessica Lange in FRANCES

Don Murray in A HATFUL OF RAIN

Andy Griffith in A FACE IN THE CROWD

Paul Newman in COOL HAND LUKE

Faye Dunaway in PUZZLE OF A DOWNFALL CHILD

Geraldine Page in SUMMER AND SMOKE

Catherine Deneuve in BELLE DE JEUR

Robert Redford in ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN

Susan Sarandon in BULL DURHAM

It's handled.

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Favorite Film Performances#11
Posted: 4/24/17 at 5:11pm

Cate Blanchett as "Elizabeth".

"Life is mainly froth and bubble, two things stand like stone; Kindness in another's trouble, courage in one's own." From "Ye Wearie Wayfarer" by Adam Lindsay Gordon.

Updated On: 4/30/17 at 05:11 PM

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Favorite Film Performances#12
Posted: 4/25/17 at 8:40pm

Gena Rowlands in "A Woman Under the Influence"...and most of the performances mentioned above.

Updated On: 4/25/17 at 08:40 PM

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Favorite Film Performances#13
Posted: 4/25/17 at 8:43pm

MichelleCraig said: "Gena Rowlands in "A Woman Under the Influence"...and most of the performances mentioned above.

I really loved her in Another Woman.

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Favorite Film Performances#14
Posted: 4/25/17 at 8:43pm

...and Meryl Streep in "Sophie's Choice"...

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Favorite Film Performances#15
Posted: 4/25/17 at 9:32pm

Judy Garland.......A Star is Born......A Child is Waiting

Bette Davis.........The Little Foxes

Jane Fonda......The Dollmaker

Anna Magnani....The Rose Tattoo

Irene Dunne......I Remember Mama

Spencer Tracy....Inherit the Wind

Whoopi Goldberg..The Color Purple

Susan Hayward...I'll Cry Torrorrow

Geraldine Page...Trip to Bountiful

Meryl Streep...Ironweed

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Favorite Film Performances#16
Posted: 4/25/17 at 11:03pm

Eleanor Powell in anything.

"Life is mainly froth and bubble, two things stand like stone; Kindness in another's trouble, courage in one's own." From "Ye Wearie Wayfarer" by Adam Lindsay Gordon.

Updated On: 4/30/17 at 11:03 PM

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Favorite Film Performances#17
Posted: 4/26/17 at 12:10pm

Some of my favorites and not-so-obvious choices:

Judi Dench in Notes on a Scandal
Brenda Belthyn, Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Claire Rushbrook in Secrets & Lies
Linda Henry and Tameka Empson in Beautiful Thing
Franka Potente in Run, Lola, Run
Carmen Maura in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Emma Thompson and Kate Winslett in Sense & Sensibility
Dianne Wiest in Hannah & Her Sisters, Parenthood and Bullets Over Broadway

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Favorite Film Performances#18
Posted: 4/26/17 at 3:13pm

Mister Matt said:
Linda Henry and Tameka Empson in Beautiful Thing

Yes, and yes! Why Tameka Empson didn't become a big star is still a mystery to me.

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Favorite Film Performances#19
Posted: 4/26/17 at 6:22pm

Anna Paquin in Margaret

Robert Mitchum in The Night of the Hunter

"In memory, everything happens to music"

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Favorite Film Performances#20
Posted: 4/26/17 at 7:38pm

Fun scene from maybe the best ensemble:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_1DSTS5-yI

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Favorite Film Performances#21
Posted: 4/28/17 at 1:49am

J.K. Simmons in Whiplash

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Favorite Film Performances#22
Posted: 4/29/17 at 12:10am

Why Tameka Empson didn't become a big star is still a mystery to me.

I also loved her on 3 Non-Blondes! I always hoped she'd get her own comedy series. She continues to do a ton of work, but I don't know why it hasn't really happened for her.

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Favorite Film Performances#23
Posted: 4/29/17 at 1:54am

Meryl and Shirley in Postcards From The Edge. It will always be my favorite!

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Favorite Film Performances#24
Posted: 4/29/17 at 3:48am

Gene Hackman in The French Connection and Hoosiers

Jeff Daniels in Gettysburg

Robert DeNiro in Ronin

Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal in Crazy Heart

George C. Scott in Patton

Rod Steiger & Sidney Poitier in In The Heat of The Night

Cary Grant, James Mason and Eva Marie Saint in North By Northwest

William Daniels in 1776

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Favorite Film Performances#25
Posted: 4/29/17 at 6:17pm

Sean Connery & Tippi Hedren in Marnie

Joe Mantegna in House of Games

Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now

Charlton Heston in The Agony and the Ecstasy

Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and Eli Wallach in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Denzel Washington & Ethan Hawke in Training Day

Brad Pitt in Interview with the Vampire

Matt Damon in The Good Shepherd & the Bourne Trilogy

Angelina Jolie in Salt & Gia

Ewan McGregor in Angels and Demons

Annette Benning in Valmont & Being Julia

Colin Firth in Valmont & Kingsman: The Secret Service

Anthony Hopkins in The Human Stain & The Rite

Jeffrey Wright in Basquiat

Keenu Reeves in Bram Stoker's Dracula & The Matrix Triology

Robin Givens & Grace Jones in Boomerang

Daniel Craig, Mara Rooney and Stellan Skarsgard in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Rebecca Romijn & Antonio Banderas in Femme Fatale

Fred MacMurray & Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity

Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield and Kevin Hooks in Sounder

Benicio del Toro and Emily Blount in Sicario

Gary Oldman in all his film performances

Bigots, business owners, corporate board members, lobbyists, and trust fund babies are voters too!

Updated On: 4/29/17 at 06:17 PM

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Favorite Film Performances#26
Posted: 4/29/17 at 6:43pm

It's interesting to see the ratio of female performances to male in these lists.

I also loved Geraldine Page in The Trip to Bountiful. I never tire of watching her performance.

Jack Lemon, Kevin Spacey and Alec Baldwin in Glengarry/Glen Ross (I thought all the men were fantastic, but those three were standouts).

Frances McDormand in Fargo

Anne Hathaway's phone call to Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain