Best Scene: Hotel room.
4. Frederic Forrest - Forrest gives yet another striking portrayal within his film, giving such a potent portrayal of a man struggling to maintain his sanity in an insane world.
Best Scene: Civilian boat.
3. Art Carney in Going in Style - Carney gives a funny but also moving portrayal of a man attempting to live out a fantasy of sorts.
Best Scene: Listening to Willie's story.
2. Oliver Reed in The Brood - Reed gives a striking portrayal of a strange form of therapy while also so carefully walking a rope of ambiguity within his character.
Best Scene: Opening.
1. Yaphet Kotto in Alien - Kotto gives a great performance, often between the lines, in just creating such an endearing energy that shifts naturally to a fierce intensity as the situation becomes dire.
Best Scene: Destroying Ash.
Next: 1981 Lead
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Sam Neill - Possession
Michel Serrault/Lino Ventura - Garde À Vue
Jeremy Irons - The French Lieutenant’s Woman
John Heard - Cutter's Way
Keith Carradine/Powers Boothe - Southern Comfort
Louis: Your updated Female top 10s.
Ratings and thoughts on Albert Brooks and Utpal Dutt.
And if you've seen it, McKellen and Dench in Macbeth.
And I already made the films to watch list this morning and will be posting it as soon as the lineup is up.
Thoughts on:
Mick Ford and Julian Firth in Scum
Richard Attenborough in The Human Factor
and Peter O’Toole in Zulu Dawn
Didn't expect Hurt to go all the way down to 13th
Apocalypse Now is #1, I absolutely love Alien but I completely agree with the switch.
God I hope Hoskins takes this.
Louis, where would you place Samantha Eggar in the Supporting Actress ranking.
I usually am not fussed on who wins the acting overalls but I'll be happy as hell if Williamson wins Supporting Actor.
HOPEFULLY, Hoskins takes his 2nd lead win now. Really really love that performance.
Luke: I'd be happy about that. Williamson is so much fun.
Robert: Not only that, I adore every single one of his line deliveries and his chemistry with Mirren (My Supporting Actress winner).
Fernando Ramos da Silva - Pixote
José Dumont - The Man That Was Turned Into Juice
Ugo Tognazzi - Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man
Sam Neill - Possession
Keith Carradine/Powers Boothe - Southern Comfort
Louis: Release information for Pixote is quite conflicted. Brazil is twice on the list for 80 and 81 but the former is limited. Don't know if it's a premiere, festival or a release in one city/region.
Louis: Love that Apocalypse Now is your new BP choice, what stuck out to you more on this watch that influenced the decision?
Luke: You're right. The case of Pixote's release is similar to that of The Long Good Friday and Hard Eight, the film's first screenings at festivals and some cities, and next year the film has the widest release.
Most Brazilians consider Pixote to be a 1981 film.
Don't know if it is worth a performance review but I have heard great things about the thriller called Diva.
BRAZINTERMA: I'll take your word for it.
Luke:
Eggar's #3 otherwise, no changes.
Brooks - 3.5(It's him doing his typical thing though with the slant of playing himself as the overbearing, and rather terrible, documentarian. Neurotic as per usual, and good in his usual neurotic ways, particularly near the end of the film when he completely goes off the deep end.)
Dutt - 4(A good villainous performance as he sort of this ease in the character's state of the sleaze. An innate sense of the character's amorality that he brandishes effectively. Playing up the sense of the man who just has no scruples and in turn plays around with his villainy with just that casual disregard. It isn't a truly menacing turn, but rather one that works quite well as a straightforward slime ball.)
Anonymous:
Ford - (More than decent in his consistent asides as the wannabe philosopher in every scene he has. Does well not to overplay the note though, as that note can easily be overplayed, playing within it the right sense of a young man uncertainty even as he presents himself as most certain.)
Firth - (Quite effective in just portraying the most intense of distress and eventual dismay. His performance brings to life the right sense of the desperation and horror of his situation.)
Marcus:
Nothing exactly, in fact I don't remember why I put it #2 originally to be perfectly honest, other than Alien is also an all time great film. Apocalypse Now though I consistently come back to as probably a film that would be in my 10 all time best at this point (where Alien would "merely" be in the top 25 or so.)
Anonymous:
O'Toole - (I mean does pompousness as well as to be expected. The problem with this prequel though is the character's just aren't really developed for you to care about them in any way. O'Toole though makes for a decent villain via disinterest.)
Attenborough - (Again he's in a dull dull film, but Attenborough does what he can in portraying the "dogged" investigator here. Basically the film is what if Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy wasn't written well. Attenborough though delivers to the extent he can, it is just a limited extent.)
Louis: Is Brideshead Revisited in your plans for this year.
Louis: Can I have your updated supporting and lead actor rankings for 70s??? Or would you prefer giving it after you cover 72 and 76??
Luke:
We'll see, obviously it is a serious time commitment.
Perfectionist:
Not at this time.
Thoughts on Amytiville Horror, the score, and the cast?
Speaking of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy what is your cast ranking for the miniseries?
Louis: Lowest 4, 3.5, 3, 2.5 and 2 on that list?
And who do you prefer film or TV per each Tinker Tailor cast member?
Matt:
The Amityville Horror is proof that someone will call a film a classic just because it is old sometimes. The whole film is just a lot of hot air from the cast, with the scenes themselves just being repetitive yelling or horribly telegraphed scares (everyone marked with terrible string smeers.). It has no real story to speak of, just one scene after another of something strange happening and then a cast member yelling, until it ends.
The Score is great work from the underrated Schifrin. It is such an unnerving score that is one of the genuinely scary things about it. That with the kind of haunted children's choir quietly underlaced towards the instrumentals that progressively get more and more disturbed sounding. It is a masterful bit of making a most unpleasant blend that still sounds pleasing in the right way, while also being off-putting in the right way.
The cast is pretty consistently bad. They either have some kind of awkward "normal" scenes where they are just kind of bland, then the scary scenes where everyone goes up to an extreme pitch almost instantly. And of course you get post-Oscar win Steiger, which means you get some crazy eyes and some throat ripping level of cursing out. Just about everyone is bad in it.
Anonymous:
1. Alec Guinness (Tie)
2. Ian Richardson (TV)
3. Ian Bannen (Film very close)
4. Bernard Hepton (TV)
5. Michael Jayston (TV close)
6. Beryl Reid (TV very close because so different)
7. Alexander Knox (Film close)
8. Joss Ackland (TV)
9. Hywel Bennett (Film)
10. Terence Rigby (TV)
11. Michael Aldridge (Film)
12. Sian Phillips
13. Patrick Stewart
14. Nigel Stock
15. John Standing (TV)
16. Anthony Bate (Film)
17. George Sewell (TV)
18. Susan Kodicek (Film, if only for the look she gives Prideaux)
Ytrewq:
4 - Idle
3.5 - Shor
3 - Firth (Tess)
2.5 - Hemmings
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