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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Performances: Your Lists
« Reply #30 on: November 07, 2010, 08:19:04 PM »
We have until the end of the year don't we?

Yes, but that may change.

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Performances: Your Lists
« Reply #31 on: November 07, 2010, 09:33:35 PM »
Cool list, 'Noke.
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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Performances: Your Lists
« Reply #32 on: November 18, 2010, 02:59:54 PM »
Putting together this list was easy. Ranking it was the hard part. My criteria for ranking was mostly this: how hard did they own the role? I don't know what that means exactly, but the list really started coming together with that in mind. So here it is.

1. F Murray Abraham - Amadeus
2. Merryl Streep - The River Wild
3. Patrick Stewart - Star Trek: First Contact
4. Rebecca DeMornay - The Hand That Rocks The Cradle
5. Jackie Chan - First Strike
6. Richard Harris - The Count of Monte Cristo
7. Sally Hawkins - Happy-Go-Lucky
8. Michael Douglas - Wall Street
9. James Woods - Casino
10. Pierce Brosnan - Goldeneye
11. Jamie Lee Curtis - True Lies
12. Arnold Schwarzenegger - Terminator 2
13. Val Kilmer - Tombstone
14. Jackey Earle Haley - Watchmen
15. Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
16. Emma Thompson - Stranger Than Fiction
17. Eddie Marsan - Happy-Go-Lucky
18. Bill Paxton - True Lies
19. Lee Van Cleef - For A Few Dollars More
20. Alan Rickman - Harry Potter series
21. John Waynes - The Shootist
22. Wesley Snipes - Demolition Man
23. Robert Patrick - Terminator 2
24. Judi Dench - Notes on a Scandal
25. Al Pacino - Scent of a Woman
26. Jane Lynch - Role Models
27. Jason Patrick - NARC
28. Nicholas Cage - Matchstick Men
29. Bruce Lee - Enter The Dragon
30. Sigourney Weaver - Alien series
31. Al Pacino - Glengarry Glen Ross
32. Tom Cruise - Rainman
33. Sandra Bulock - Speed
34. Pam Grier - Jackie Brown
35. Michelle Yeoh - Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
36. David Thewlis - Naked
37. George C. Scott - Patton
38. Robert Shaw - Jaws
39. Stephen Graham - This Is England
40. Paul Giamatti - Sideways
41. Geoffrey Rush - Quills
42. Michael Caine - A Shock to the System
43. Emma Thompson - Sense and Sensibility
44. Robert De Niro - Casino
45. Misery - Kathy Bates
46. Jürgen Prochnow - Das Boot
47. Daniel Day Lewis - Gangs of New York
48. Amy Sedaris - Strangers With Candy
49. Gena Rowlands - Another Woman
50. Jim Carrey - Me, Myself and Irene
51. Ray Liotta - NARC
52. Billy-Bob Thornton - Bad Santa
53. John Goodman - The Big Lebowski
54. Al Pacino - The Insider
55. Natalie Portman - My Blueberry Nights
56. Emile Hirsch - Into the Wild
57. Brenden Gleeson - In Bruges
58. Julia Roberts - Closer
59. Mike Myers - Austin Powers series
60. Ed Norton - American History X
61. Clive Owen - Closer
62. Nicholas Cage - Adaptation
63. Cate Blanchet - Notes on a Scandal
64. Robert Shaw - The Sting
65. Woody Harrelson - Indecent Proposal
66. Richard Dryfuss - Mr Holland’s Opus
67. Jeff Bridges - The Big Lebowski
68. Robin Williams - Good Will Hunting
69. Robert Forrester - Jackie Brown
70. Tommy Lee Jones - No Country For Old Men
71. Hugh Jackman - The Prestige
72. Billy Crudup  - Watchmen
73. James Franco - Pinapple Express
74. Sam Rockwell - Moon
75. Christian Bale - The Prestige
76. Gene Hackman - Crimson Tide
77. Bill Murray - Kingpin
78. Kate Winslet - Revolutionary Road
79. Viggo Mortenson - The Road
80. Rebecca Hall - Vicky Christina Barcelona
81. Jamie Foxx - Ray
82. Gary Sinese - Forrest Gump
83. Emily Mortimer - Transsiberian
84. Tia Carrere - Waynes World
85. Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump
86. Ben Stiller - Zoolander
87. Terrance Stamp - The Limey
88. Woody Harrelson - White Men Can’t Jump
89. Kevin Spacey - Usual Suspects
90. Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven
91. Leonardo De Caprio - Revolutionary Road
92. Russell Crowe - The Insider
93. John Cameron Mitchell - Hedwig and the Angry Inch

A few spots left in case I forgot something.
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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Performances: Your Lists
« Reply #33 on: November 18, 2010, 03:05:33 PM »
A few spots left in case I forgot something.

Non-martial arts foreign performances?  The years 1900 through 1970?

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Performances: Your Lists
« Reply #34 on: November 18, 2010, 03:31:51 PM »
A few spots left in case I forgot something.

Non-martial arts foreign performances?  The years 1900 through 1970?

Heh, that feels like a whole different list. :)


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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Performances: Your Lists
« Reply #35 on: November 27, 2010, 05:48:09 PM »
A top 50 will do for me, thank you very much. Mostly from the things I've watched this year, with a few random memory fragments otherwise.

1. Barbara Stanwyck - The Lady Eve
2. Linda Manz - Out of the Blue
3. Cary Grant - Only Angels Have Wings
4. James Stewart - Vertigo
5. Madhabi Mukherjee - Charulata
6. Cary Grant - I Was a Male War Bride
7. Ellen Burstyn - Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
8. Judy Garland - Meet Me in St. Louis
9. Dennis Hopper - Out of the Blue
10. Janet Gaynor - Lucky Star
11. Maria Falconetti - The Passion of Joan of Arc
12. Jerry Lewis - The Nutty Professor
13. Dean Martin - Rio Bravo
14. Lew Ayres - Holiday
15. John Wayne - Rio Bravo
16. Cary Grant - Bringing Up Baby
17. Stephen Chow - King of Comedy
18. Margaret Sullavan - Little Man, What Now?
19. Jack Nicholson - Five Easy Pieces
20. Barbara Stanwyck - Forty Guns
21. Judy Garland - A Star is Born
22. James Mason - Bigger Than Life
23. Bae Doona - Linda Linda Linda
24. Margaret O’Brien - Meet Me in St. Louis
25. Kirin Kiki - Still Walking
26. Charles Farrell - Street Angel
27. Kim Hye-ja - Mother
28. Song Kang-ho - Memories of Murder
29. Olivier Gourmet - The Son
30. Yuya Yagira - Nobody Knows
31. Mania Akbari - Ten
32. Emilie Dequenne - Rosetta
33. Maggie Cheung - Irma Vep
34. Peggy Cummins - Gun Crazy
35. Louise Brooks - Pandora’s Box
36. Buster Keaton - The General
37. Robert Mitchum - The Night of the Hunter
38. Elliot Gould - The Long Goodbye
39. Judy Davis - High Tide
40. Katharine Hepburn - Bringing Up Baby
41. Gong Li - Miami Vice
42. Kerry Fox - An Angel At My Table
43. Maggie Cheung - In the Mood for Love
44. Miriam Hopkins - Barbary Coast
45. Harry Dean Stanton - Paris, Texas
46. Chow Yun-fat - The Killer
47. Alex Descas - 35 Rhums
48. Barbara Stanwyck - All I Desire
49. Angie Dickinson - Rio Bravo
50. Jerry Lewis - The King of Comedy

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Performances: Your Lists
« Reply #36 on: November 27, 2010, 07:31:00 PM »
23. Bae Doona - Linda Linda Linda
39. Judy Davis - High Tide
47. Alex Descas - 35 Rhums

I don't expect to see these on anymore ballots (but mine re: Bae and Davis; Bae might be on roujin's), but they're all first-rate.  I find moments of genius in those Bae and Davis performances.  Love Descas there, but not enough to rank.

42. Kerry Fox - An Angel At My Table

On mine and I'm pretty confident it'll be on OAD's.
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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Performances: Your Lists
« Reply #37 on: November 27, 2010, 07:57:33 PM »
It's been fifteen years since I last saw Davis in High Tide, and the performance still stays with me. Same - possibly longer! - with Kerry Fox.


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« Reply #38 on: November 27, 2010, 08:08:18 PM »
It's been fifteen years since I last saw Davis in High Tide, and the performance still stays with me. Same - possibly longer! - with Kerry Fox.

I was devastated to find out that my library's copy of High Tide was damaged.  Luckily, it's streaming on Netflix, and I was happy to find that Davis affected me as strongly as she did when I first saw the film a couple of years ago.  A note to anyone wanting to fill out their ballot with brilliant performances, ones absolutely worthy of a Top 50 All Time designation, squeeze in viewings of High Tide and An Angel at My Table.
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« Reply #39 on: November 27, 2010, 09:03:50 PM »
I don't expect to see these on anymore ballots (but mine re: Bae and Davis; Bae might be on roujin's), but they're all first-rate.  I find moments of genius in those Bae and Davis performances. 

I couldn't pick out just one of the girls from LLL.  As I said when I posted my list:

* I wish I could do a blanket vote for the entire core cast of Linda Linda Linda.  What a charming group of young women, and all so well-drawn.


Also....

42. Kerry Fox - An Angel At My Table

On mine and I'm pretty confident it'll be on OAD's.

#14 on my list.

 

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