5. Donald Pleasence in Fantastic Voyage - Pleasence is the best part of his film, doing his best to make the most out of some pretty vague ideas.
Best Scene: Claustrophobia.
4. Paul Meurisse in Le Deuxième Souffle - Meurisse gives a nice spirited turn in creating the methods of an intelligent investigator.
Best Scene: Analyzing the crime scene.
3. Murray Hamilton in Seconds - Hamilton, in some very brief time, gives a very moving portrayal of a journey that reflects the central one, just in a microcosm.
Best Scene: His scene.
2. John Randolph in Seconds - Randolph gives a powerful setup for the main character of his film, in giving a moving portrayal of a man gripped by an anxiety and detachment from his life.
Best Scene: Reflecting on his life.
1. Will Geer in Seconds - Good predictions
Mitchell Murray, RatedRStar, Calvin, Michael Patison and
Razor. Will Geer gives a brilliant portrayal. This in subverting his typical folksy manner to create a particularly unnerving portrayal of a man giving some loving wisdom that is wholly nihilistic.
Best Scene: Sendoff.
Updated Overall
Next: 2002 Lead
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Leslie Cheung - Inner Senses
Chiwetel Ejiofor - Dirty Pretty Things
Sol Kyung-Gu - Oasis
Olivier Gourmet - The Son
Hugh Grant - About A Boy
Bill Paxton/Matthew McConaughey - Frailty
Hiroyuki Sanada - The Twilight Samurai
David Gulpilil - The Tracker
Campbell Scott - Roger Dodger
Rating and thoughts on Ralph Richardson in The Magic Box.
Any other Leading performances you've seen.
And any updates to the female rankings.
*The Wrong Box
Chiwetel Ejiofor - Dirty Pretty Things
Leslie Cheung - Inner Senses
Sol Kyung-Gu - Oasis
Olivier Gourmet - The Son
Hugh Grant - About A Boy
Bill Paxton- Frailty
Hiroyuki Sanada - The Twilight Samurai
David Gulpilil - The Tracker
Campbell Scott - Roger Dodger
Kieran Culkin - Igby Goes Down
Louis: Your thoughts on John Saxon in The Appaloosa?
Luke: What year is likely to be next out of 1964 and 77 since I still have no idea how the year cycles works?
RatedRStar: 64 is next for the 60s and 77 will still be awhile away.
Personally I don't think Grant or Scott are really that interesting enough for a review, so maybe review DiCaprio in Catch Me if You Can if you don't feel like there's enough to write about.
Also, avoid Igby Goes Down like the plague.
Chiwetel Ejiofor - Dirty Pretty Things
Leslie Cheung - Inner Senses
Sol Kyung-Gu - Oasis
Bill Paxton & Matthew McConaughey - Frailty
Hiroyuki Sanada - The Twilight Samurai
For Prediction Purposes:
Paxton/McConaughey
Bonus:
David Gulpilil - The Tracker
Honestly, I think the five Leading requests for this year are solid enough for the prediction lineup.
Louis: Review Gourmet and Gulpilil as bonuses if you have to.
Or better yet switch out either Grant or Scott for PSH in Love Liza.
And Timothy Spall in All Or Nothing.
Louis: Ivan Lapikov in Andrei Rublev is missing from the Supporting overall.
Louis, thoughts on Au Hasard Balthazar and Torn Curtain.
Leslie Cheung - Inner Senses
Kyung-gu Sol - Oasis
Olivier Gourmet - The Son
Chiwetel Ejiofor - Dirty Pretty Things
Lázaro Ramos - Madame Satã
I'll be gutted guys if it's only a 5 lineup. Gourmet, Gulpilil and PSH are all possible fives in my opinion.
I saw Gourmet recently and he was amazing. PSH is in Calvin's top 5 and I know Louis won't turn down Gulpilil. And Spall/Leigh is usually really good.
After 2002; I hope the next years will be: 1936, 1942, 1946 or 1958
Has anyone here watched GQ's interview with Russell Crowe? It's quite interesting, especially when Crowe discusses the productions behind "The Insider" and "Cinderalla Man".
Isn’t Matt O’Leary supposed to be the actual lead of Frailty? I think I remember Psifonian having him in a now-deleted montage of his Best Actor nominees throughout the years.
Also, now that I have another request to use, and since I don't see him in the winning requests now, I submit Nicol Williamson in "Excalibur" for a review.
Mitchell: Have any of your requests got a 5 so far, if not, Williamson will end your wait for sure in my opinion.
Luke: Well I don't think Louis has reviewed any of my requested performances yet, so we'll have to see.
Robert: It's a "cause-and-effect" kind of thing. Everything that Paxtons' character says/does affects O'Leary and McConaugheys' actions.
Louis, rating and thoughts on Jeanne Moreau in Mademoiselle.
O’Leary I’d say is the only unambiguous lead of Frailty I’d say. Paxton and especially McConaughey could both be argued supporting.
If Paxton goes Supporting, my votes for the lineup are:
Ejiofor
Cheung
Sanada
Gulpilil
Sol
Timothy Spall would also be a good review, he’s borderline as well but I’m leaning towards lead for him. Haven’t seen Gourmet, Hoffman, or Scott.
I've seen a little bit of Hoffman on Showtime a few years ago, I could see him being a 5.
I agree with Luke that there should be a 10 lineup.
The requests
Gourmet
Gulpilil
Hoffman
Spall
If Paxton/McConaughey are supporting then Scott and Greg Kinnear in Auto Focus.
I've seen Scott. He's fine, but hardly worthy of a review. I maintain that if we need a filler slot, just do DiCaprio in Catch Me if You Can since that was really the first full -blown "Leo" performance. Actually, I wouldn't mind a double review of him in Gangs as a compare/contrast of him at his best and at his worst.
Robert: I don't mind that actually if it's filling the 10th slot.
For me, Paxton & O'Leary are essentially the Labeouf/Jupe equivalents of Frailty, and the latter two are in the Lead Ranking for 2019.
McConaughey, like Hedges in that film, is in the Present storyline, and Hedges is listed as Supporting in the 2019 Ranking. I could get into more why McConaugheys' case is a little grey, but it would involve spoilers.
Luke: It's funny, because I just rewatched Gangs yesterday and I cannot think of a more anti-charismatic performance that he's ever given. I just find it funny that and CMIYC came out the same year.
Leslie Cheung - Inner Senses
Chiwetel Ejiofor - Dirty Pretty Things
Sol Kyung-Gu - Oasis
Olivier Gourmet - The Son
Bill Paxton - Frailty
Hiroyuki Sanada - The Twilight Samurai
David Gulpilil - The Tracker
Timothy Spall - All Or Nothing
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Love Liza
Leonardo DiCaprio - Catch Me If You Can (If he wants to talk about Gangs as well, sure though stick with the better performance for the prediction contest)
Leslie Cheung, Inner Senses
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Dirty Pretty Things
Hiroyuki Sanada, The Twilight Samurai
Kyung-gu Sol, Oasis
Olivier Gourmet, The Son
David Gulpilil, The Tracker
Darío Grandinetti, Talk to Her
Javier Cámara, Talk to Her
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Love Liza
Jesse Eisenberg, Roger Dodger
Campbell Scott, Roger Dodger
Steve Coogan, 24 Hour Party People
Danny Huston, ivans xtc.
Timothy Spall, All or Nothing
Greg Kinnear, Auto Focus
Please review Ajay Devgan in Company
Luke:
Honestly none of the other leading performances are really worth commenting on, Caine does a decent reprise of Harry Palmer, the rest are pretty forgettable.
Richardson - 4(He's a wonderful fuddy duddy and it is a shame the film doesn't really keep to him. This as he achieves such an enjoyable comedic manner in his character always being blindly unaware of all the ill-intent around him. He's terrific in just keeping to this state, and I only wish the film would've come back to him more often.)
1. Bib Andersson - Persona
2. Liv Ullmann - Persona
3. Maya Bulgakova - Wings
4. Jeanne Moreau - Mademoiselle
5. Lyudmila Savelyeva - War and Peace Part II
6. Elizabeth Taylor - Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf
7. Ayako Wakao - The Red Angel
8. Audrey Hepburn - How To Steal A Million
9. Lynn Redgrave - Georgy Girl
10. Tuesday Weld - Lord Love a Duck
11. Margaret Leighton - 7 Women
12. Anne Bancroft - 7 Women
13. Vanessa Redgrave - Morgan
14. Anouk Aimee - A Man and A Woman
15. Shirley MacLaine - Gambit
Supporting
1. Machiko Kyo - The Face of Another
2. Charlotte Rampling - Georgy Girl
3. Anne Wiazemsky Au Hasard Balthazar - 4.5
4. Wendy Hiller - A Man for All Seasons
5. Vanessa Redgrave - Blow Up
6. Susannah York - A Man For All Seasons
7. Sumita Sanyal - Nayak
8. Geraldine Page - You're A Big Boy Now
9. Jessica Walters - The Group
10. Lila Kedrova - Torn Curtain
11. Gunnel Lindblom - Hunger
12. Elizabeth Hartman - You're A Big Boy Now
13. Ulla Sjoblom - Here is Your Life
14. Shelley Winters - Alfie
15. Shirley Knight - The Group
RatedRStar:
Saxon - (Well having completed my review, Saxon's accent is just a little over the top, otherwise though he delivers an effective villainous turn here. This in bringing the right sort of bravado and in turn menace in his manner. He goes further though in adding these nice nuanced moments of a revealing vulnerability within the bandit's facade that shows the desperation that compels him at a certain point.)
Anonymous:
Au Hasard Balthazar - (Quickly largely a powerful film, if I wonder if too detached in its perspective, as a donkey is the lead, however even in that sense I think it beautifully realizes the idea of the almost random punishment an innocent creature can receive both in terms of the Donkey and his original owner.)
Torn Curtain - (Andrews and Newman have no chemistry and are extremely forgettable. It takes WAY too long to get going. When it does though it becomes decent as Hitchcock really does focus on the random cast of characters outside of his leads.)
Anonymous:
Moreau - 4.5(In a certain sense a precursor to Huppert in The Piano Teacher, in the nature of the nearly senseless violence of the character. Moreau's portrayal though is one of sadism. She is absolutely striking in these scenes of destruction in the pure callous destruction that exudes from every part of her. This is against her other scenes where she plays them strictly as a facade on top of the psychopath. This in creating this particularly striking portrait of this sort random evil, that she makes human only in the sense that you purely feel her rotten emotions she pours into these acts.)
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