Broadway Star Joined: 9/2/11
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
Geraldine Page - Trip to Bountiful
An astonishing performance.
Amy Adams in Arrival
Vivian Leigh in Streetcar.
F. Murray Abraham - AMADEUS
Hillary Swank - BOYS DON'T CRY
Ellen Burstyn - REQUIEM FOR A DREAM
Swing Joined: 4/23/17
Off the top of my head: Oscar Isaac in Ex Machina and Kyle MacLachlan in Blue Velvet.
Judy Parfitt in Dolores Claiborne.
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
Cate Blanchett as "Elizabeth".
Updated On: 4/30/17 at 05:11 PM
Gena Rowlands in "A Woman Under the Influence"...and most of the performances mentioned above.
Updated On: 4/25/17 at 08:40 PMBroadway Star Joined: 9/2/11
MichelleCraig said: "Gena Rowlands in "A Woman Under the Influence"...and most of the performances mentioned above.
I really loved her in Another Woman.
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
Eleanor Powell in anything.
Updated On: 4/30/17 at 11:03 PM
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
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.
Anna Paquin in Margaret
Robert Mitchum in The Night of the Hunter
Fun scene from maybe the best ensemble:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_1DSTS5-yI
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.
Meryl and Shirley in Postcards From The Edge. It will always be my favorite!
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/26/16
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
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
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