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...Or the 100 Most
Fortunate Actors in Film History?
Who are the most
important film actors of all-time? Is it those who had the
biggest star-power, those who won the most awards or accolades,
those who grabbed the most headlines? Or, was it those
performers who actually worked - for whatever reason - with the
best filmmakers and subsequently ended up appearing in many of
the screen's finest films?
See
what They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?
think, and prepare to be mildly surprised with some of our
inclusions and also by many of our omissions (last updated
during February 2010).
Recent Viewings
° Model Shop (Jacques
Demy/1969/USA) "Demy's
only - and underrated - American film may lack the fairytale charm
of his finest French work, but the bitter-sweet delicacy of tone and
acute feeling for place are at once familiar."
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Geoff Andrew, Time Out
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TSPDT: Worth a Look
° The 10th Victim (Elio
Petri/1965/Italy) "From the outrageous fashions to
the less than hidden anti-media agenda, this revamped version of The
Most Dangerous Game is like a retro Running Man meshed
with a Cinzano ad."
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Bill Gibson, Pop Matters
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TSPDT: Approach with
Caution
° City Streets (Rouben
Mamoulian/1931/USA) "Strikingly stylised
bootlegging yarn, more romance than gangster movie, said to have
been an Al Capone favourite because the gang boss (Lukas), far from
rampaging Cagney-style with machine-gun in the streets, is always
careful to be seen to have clean hands."
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Tom Milne, Time Out
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TSPDT: Worth a Look
° The Killer Inside Me (Michael
Winterbottom/2010/USA-UK-Sweden-France) "The
Killer Inside Me is expert filmmaking based on a frightening
performance, but it presents us with a character who remains a vast
empty lonely cold space. The film finds resolution there somewhere,
perhaps, but not on a frequency I can receive."
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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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TSPDT: Worth a Look
° How the West Was Won (John
Ford,
Henry Hathaway,
George Marshall/1962/USA)
"For all its epic pretensions and grandeur, How the West Was
Won is really just a Debbie Reynolds movie with some whopping
guest stars. John Wayne appears as General Sherman, Raymond Massey
as Abraham Lincoln, Harry Morgan as Ulysses S. Grant - not one of
them lending any substance to the tediously winding narrative."
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Tim Lucas, Sight & Sound
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TSPDT: Worth a Look
(for the Blu-Ray release); Approach with Caution for all else.
° The Red and the White (Miklós
Jancsó/1967/Hungary-USSR)
"Working
in elaborately choreographed long takes with often spectacular
vistas, Jancso invites us to study the mechanisms of power almost
abstractly, with a cold eroticism that may suggest some of the
subsequent work of
Stanley Kubrick."
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Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
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TSPDT:
Recommended
° Show Me Love (Lukas
Moodysson/1998/Sweden-Denmark) "This powerful,
funny romantic drama neatly integrates the dilemmas of a girl in
love, the girl she loves, a boy who also loves that girl, and that
girl's sister."
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Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader
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TSPDT: Worth a Look
° Hail Mary (Jean-Luc
Godard/1985/France-Switzerland) "Set to gusts of
classical music and punctuated with images of nature (sunsets,
rippling water, rustling trees), Hail Mary is limpid, serene,
and, for all the pubic hair on display, glowingly chaste."
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Fernando F. Croce, Slant Magazine
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TSPDT: Worth a Look
In the Press
● Cannes winner
Uncle Boonmee panned by French film critics.
The Guardian
