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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Performances: Your Lists
« Reply #90 on: December 16, 2010, 04:09:58 PM »
Spacey! Hoffman! Yay!
I actually consider a lot of movies to be life-changing! I take them to my heart and they melt into my personality.

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« Reply #91 on: December 16, 2010, 04:47:59 PM »
Judy Davis as Caroline Chasseur
The Ref  (Ted Demme, 1994)

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« Reply #92 on: December 16, 2010, 05:17:30 PM »
# 55 —

Christopher Walken as Nick
The Deer Hunter  (Michael Cimino, 1978)


# 54 —

Anthony Hopkins as James Stevens
The Remains of the Day  (James Ivory, 1993)


# 53 —

Anna Karina as Angela
A Woman Is a Woman  (Jean-Luc Godard, 1961)


# 52 —

James Murray as John
The Crowd  (King Vidor, 1928)


# 51 —

Heath Ledger as Ennis Del Mar
Brokeback Mountain  (Ang Lee, 2005)


# 50 —

Elizabeth Taylor as Martha
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?  (Mike Nichols, 1966)


# 49 —

Bill Murray as Phil
Groundhog Day  (Harold Ramis, 1993)


# 48 —

Ellen DeGeneres as Dory
Finding Nemo  (Andrew Stanton, 2003)


# 47 —

Rex Harrison as Sir Alfred De Carter
Unfaithfully Yours  (Preston Sturges, 1948)


# 46 —

Marcello Mastroianni as Guido Anselmi
 (Federico Fellini, 1963)


# 45 —

Audrey Tautou as Amιlie Poulain
Amιlie  (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001)


# 44 —

Rosemarie DeWitt as Rachel
Rachel Getting Married  (Jonathan Demme, 2008)


# 43 —

Laurence Olivier as Hamlet
Hamlet  (Laurence Olivier, 1948)


# 42 —

Deborah Kerr as Sister Clodagh
Black Narcissus  (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1947)


# 41 —

George C. Scott as Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
Patton  (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1970)



Christopher Walken could just as easily be up there for Pennies from Heaven; Anthony Hopkins for The Silence of the Lambs; Heath Ledger for The Dark Knight; Laurence Olivier for Henry V; and, most definitely, George C. Scott for The Hustler.

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Performances: Your Lists
« Reply #93 on: December 16, 2010, 05:23:46 PM »
Fantastic! Glad to see Ledger get some love, as well as Dewitt. Love Tautou and Murray and Degeneres.
I actually consider a lot of movies to be life-changing! I take them to my heart and they melt into my personality.

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Performances: Your Lists
« Reply #94 on: December 16, 2010, 05:55:14 PM »
Great list, pixote! I love that you have pictures for every performance.

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« Reply #95 on: December 17, 2010, 04:18:58 AM »
# 40 —

Daniel Day-Lewis as Gerry Conlon
In the Name of the Father  (Jim Sheridan, 1993)


# 39 —

Bibi Andersson as Nurse Alma
Persona  (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)


# 38 —

Orson Welles as Charles Foster Kane
Citizen Kane  (Orson Welles, 1941)


# 37 —

Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy
On the Waterfront  (Elia Kazan, 1954)


# 36 —

Sophia Loren as Cesira
Two Women  (Vittorio De Sica, 1960)


# 35 —

Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins
Mary Poppins  (Robert Stevenson, 1964)


# 34 —

Henry Fonda as Juror #8
12 Angry Men  (Sidney Lumet, 1957)


# 33 —

Massimo Troisi as Mario Ruoppolo
Il postino  (Michael Radford, 1994)


# 32 —

Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates
Psycho  (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)


# 31 —

Brian Donlevy as Sgt. Markoff
Beau Geste  (William Wellman, 1939)


# 30 —

Shirley Booth as Lola Delaney
Come Back, Little Sheba  (Daniel Mann, 1952)


# 29 —

Robert Donat as Mr. Chips
Goodbye, Mr. Chips  (Sam Wood, 1939)


# 28 —

Richard Burton as Alec Leamas
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold  (Martin Ritt, 1965)


# 27 —

Jean Seberg as Patricia Franchini
Breathless  (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)


# 26 —

Donald O'Connor as Cosmo Brown
Singin' in the Rain  (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, 1952)



Daniel Day-Lewis could just as easily be up there for My Left Foot; Orson Welles for The Third Man; Marlon Brando for The Men or The Godfather; Henry Fonda for The Grapes of Wrath; and Richard Burton for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Performances: Your Lists
« Reply #96 on: December 17, 2010, 06:02:46 AM »
Huh, that batch contains a disproportionate number of black-and-white films from the sixties.

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Performances: Your Lists
« Reply #97 on: December 17, 2010, 10:21:05 AM »
I promised myself a break from giant marathons after the current one is complete, but your picks have me wanting to do a performance marathon.  Those I've seen I completely agree with. So I'm curious about the ones I haven't seen.

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Performances: Your Lists
« Reply #98 on: December 17, 2010, 02:06:49 PM »
# 25 —

Jean-Pierre Lιaud as Antoine Doinel
The 400 Blows  (Franηois Truffaut, 1959)


# 24 —

Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond
Sunset Blvd.  (Billy Wilder, 1950)


# 23 —

Russell Crowe as Jeffrey Wigand
The Insider  (Michael Mann, 1999)


# 22 —

Mary Tyler Moore as Beth Jarrett
Ordinary People  (Robert Redford, 1980)


# 21 —

Emil Jannings as The Doorman
The Last Laugh  (F.W. Murnau, 1924)


# 20 —

Celia Johnson as Laura Jesson
Brief Encounter  (David Lean, 1945)


# 19 —

James Stewart as George Bailey
It's a Wonderful Life  (Frank Capra, 1946)


# 18 —

Raimu as Cιsar
Marius  (Alexander Korda, 1931)


# 17 —

Liza Minnelli as Sally Bowles
Cabaret  (Bob Fosse, 1972)


# 16 —

Rosalind Russell as Hildy Johnson
His Girl Friday  (Howard Hawks, 1940)


# 15 —

Jack Nicholson as R.P. McMurphy
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest  (Milos Forman, 1975)


# 14 —

Gena Rowlands as Mabel Longhetti
A Woman Under the Influence  (John Cassavetes, 1974)


# 13 —

Gordon Pinsent as Grant Anderson
Away from Her  (Sarah Polley, 2006)


# 12 —

Audrey Hepburn as Princess Ann
Roman Holiday  (William Wyler, 1953)


# 11 —

Paul Scofield as Thomas More
A Man for All Seasons  (Fred Zinnemann, 1966)



James Stewart could just as easily be up there for Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Philadelphia Story, or Harvey; Jack Nicholson for Five Easy Pieces or Chinatown; Audrey Hepburn for The Nun's Story; and Paul Scofield for Quiz Show.

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« Reply #99 on: December 17, 2010, 03:42:59 PM »
I promised myself a break from giant marathons after the current one is complete, but your picks have me wanting to do a performance marathon.  Those I've seen I completely agree with. So I'm curious about the ones I haven't seen.

Cool, that's a very nice thing to hear. I find myself really wanting to revisit a lot of these; and also to check out some other performances by some of the people I've only seen in one great role.

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