Favorite Screen Turns
Premiere Magazine has come out with its list of the 100 greatest performances in movie history. The list is posted in a super-annoying-to-navigate format on the magazine's site, so I haven't even read the whole thing. I know that Gene Wilder in Young Frankenstein cracking the top 10 seems more than a bit generous (though he was hilarious in that).
What are some of your favorites? Here are the ones that pop right to mind for me: Laura Linney and Mark Ruffalo in You Can Count On Me, Diane Keaton in Annie Hall, Paul Giamatti in Sideways, Paul Newman in Hud, Owen Wilson in Bottle Rocket, Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon and Glengarry Glen Ross and the first two Godfathers, Albert Brooks and Holly Hunter in Broadcast News, Hunter and Nicolas Cage in Raising Arizona, Christopher Guest in This is Spinal Tap, Gary Sinise and John Malkovich in Of Mice and Men, Ed Norton in Rounders, Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront, Tatum O'Neal in Paper Moon...
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What are some of your favorites? Here are the ones that pop right to mind for me: Laura Linney and Mark Ruffalo in You Can Count On Me, Diane Keaton in Annie Hall, Paul Giamatti in Sideways, Paul Newman in Hud, Owen Wilson in Bottle Rocket, Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon and Glengarry Glen Ross and the first two Godfathers, Albert Brooks and Holly Hunter in Broadcast News, Hunter and Nicolas Cage in Raising Arizona, Christopher Guest in This is Spinal Tap, Gary Sinise and John Malkovich in Of Mice and Men, Ed Norton in Rounders, Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront, Tatum O'Neal in Paper Moon...
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Labels: Movies
posted by JMW at 5:43 PM
3 Comments:
Very nice lists. I agree with most of your choices -- although I'm too proletariat to like classic movies, and obviously have an affinity for mainstream movies -- and would add the following:
Jack Nicholson -- A Few Good Men
Brad Pitt -- Snatch, Fight Club, True Romance
Christopher Walken -- True Romance
Gary Oldman -- True Romance
Samuel L. Jackson -- Pulp Fiction (he will never have another role)
Vince Vaughn -- Swingers
Mark Wahlberg -- Boogie Nights
George Clooney -- Out of Sight; Oh, Brother Where Art Thou?
Will Ferrell -- The Anchorman
Will Arnett -- Arrested Development (Gob deserves to be enshrined somewhere)
Kevin Spacey -- The Usual Suspects
Matt Damon -- Good Will Hunting
Jeff Bridges -- The Big Lebowski
Paul Newman -- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
I'm not a big Boogie Nights fan.
Anonymous, I almost included Vaughn in Swingers; he's great in that. Pitt was very good in Fight Club, too. Nice commercial choices you got goin' there...
Kevin Spacey - Swimming With Sharks
Kevin Spacey - Seven
Kristen Scott Thomas - The English Patient
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