tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5030627662498151745.post4221967581164484106..comments2023-12-26T05:26:08.512-05:00Comments on The Cinematic Spectacle: Top 100 Performances of All Time (Updated)Joshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08596682195753811295noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5030627662498151745.post-22028232127860236272015-12-10T10:18:29.362-05:002015-12-10T10:18:29.362-05:00Thanks so much, Ruth! Ha, I'd love to see your...Thanks so much, Ruth! Ha, I'd love to see your list! ;)<br /><br />LOLJoshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08596682195753811295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5030627662498151745.post-57552249482212135082015-12-10T10:14:43.966-05:002015-12-10T10:14:43.966-05:00Thanks! Hope you get a chance to check them out.Thanks! Hope you get a chance to check them out.Joshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08596682195753811295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5030627662498151745.post-33058988017813995532015-12-10T10:12:56.278-05:002015-12-10T10:12:56.278-05:00So glad you love these mentions! Many of these per...So glad you love these mentions! Many of these performances (Leigh, Bergman, Wyman, Weisz, Finney, Keaton, Davis, Bates) are staggering in their honesty. The emotions are so real in them.<br /><br />And Hussey gives one of my favorite supporting performances of all time. That's how you steal a movie - from three icons, no less.<br /><br />Stanwyck is a delight in The Lady Eve. I can't complain about her Oscar nom for Ball of Fire that year, though. What a year she had!<br /><br />Mitchum's performance is amazing. His voice, particularly his singing, makes that portrayal even more effective.<br /><br />I can't wait to discover more performances to add to the list.Joshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08596682195753811295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5030627662498151745.post-24655529983806882732015-12-10T09:49:27.550-05:002015-12-10T09:49:27.550-05:00Thanks. Bogart is great in The Treasure of the Sie...Thanks. Bogart is great in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, but I'll always have a soft spot for his work in The Maltese Falcon. The role of Sam Spade just fits him like a glove.Joshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08596682195753811295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5030627662498151745.post-21430417494201744292015-12-10T09:47:23.922-05:002015-12-10T09:47:23.922-05:00Thanks! Yes, go watch them! ;)Thanks! Yes, go watch them! ;)Joshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08596682195753811295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5030627662498151745.post-43714054268528151062015-12-10T09:46:58.373-05:002015-12-10T09:46:58.373-05:00Yay! LOVE that performance!
Ha, I should do somet...Yay! LOVE that performance!<br /><br />Ha, I should do something more complete, but that'll take longer. Maybe on the next update. :)Joshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08596682195753811295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5030627662498151745.post-53475842984495263902015-12-09T11:27:44.208-05:002015-12-09T11:27:44.208-05:00OMG, this is a great idea for a list AND an amazin...OMG, this is a great idea for a list AND an amazing list, Josh! I don't think I could even do this as I haven't even seen any on your top 5 (shame on me!)<br /><br />My goodness Marlon Brando was soooo hot in A Streetcar Named Desire, my French crush Stanley Weber reminds me of him in this particular role, except that he's much taller ;-)Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06313168799746450979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5030627662498151745.post-56232584938105706342015-12-04T00:45:02.077-05:002015-12-04T00:45:02.077-05:00Wow! Spectacular list. I haven't seen any of y...Wow! Spectacular list. I haven't seen any of your top 5 :\Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16122486227099423676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5030627662498151745.post-6913857679690622102015-12-02T22:23:33.501-05:002015-12-02T22:23:33.501-05:00I've seen about 75% of these and there are so ...I've seen about 75% of these and there are so many beautiful pieces of work included. <br /><br />Some that I'm particularly happy to see on the list:<br /><br />Barbara Stanwyck in The Lady Eve-So often Stanwyck is thought of as the hard tough dame, often heartless, of her later years and this is a wonderful reminder of her ability to be soft, feminine, bewitching and funny.<br /><br />Robert Mitchum in Night of the Hunter-Perhaps the most criminally undervalued actor of his generation when he was living he explores so many parts of his talent in this dark unsettling film.<br /><br />The double tip to Notorious of Ingrid Bergman & Claude Rains and their brilliance both together and separately in the film. Also Ingrid’s magnificent cinematic swan song in Autumn Sonata where she never cheated the character by trying to make her more sympathetic to the audience but showing her just as she was thereby actually garnering a true understanding of a flawed woman.<br /><br />Speaking of acting duets Albert Finney and Diane Keaton’s complex work in the underseen Shoot the Moon is like Bergman and Rains greatly complimentary to each other whether together or apart.<br /><br />The consistently brilliant Rachel Weisz in The Deep Blue Sea.<br /><br />Very glad to see Bette Davis’s soul searching Charlotte Vale singled out. Looked at superficially the film could be taken for just another weepie but there is always so much going on beneath Davis fragile veneer of new found assurance. In a film with a similar vibe Jane Wyman is doing much the same, though approaching the role from a different angle, in All That Heaven Allows.<br /><br />Yea to the acknowledgment of Ruth Hussey’s stealth stealing of The Philadelphia Story as the sly Liz Imbrie.<br /><br />But I think the one that tickles me the most is Vivien Leigh in Waterloo Bridge. I know it was the actress’s favorite film of all she made and I would assume that applied to the performance as well. It’s so delicate and exposed, it just tears at your heart.<br /><br />Also among the performances that almost made the list it was great to see Alan Bates’s amazing work in Return of the Soldier. Everybody in that film is so great, I would have included Glenda Jackson, that nursery scene! and Julie Christie watching from the window and Ann-Margret trying so hard to hide her love for her cousin. I guess I would have had a group spot for them all on my list! That’s why I’m in awe that you’re able to do this, I have so many.<br />joel65913https://www.blogger.com/profile/14526657073681774683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5030627662498151745.post-69352941721946394342015-12-02T10:17:34.248-05:002015-12-02T10:17:34.248-05:00Of the ones I have seen, I mostly agree on their e...Of the ones I have seen, I mostly agree on their excellence. The few I didn't think belonged were because I thought there was a better performance by the same actor in a different film. The biggest for me being I like Bogart in The Treasure of Sierra Madre much more than The Maltese Falcon. Great job, overall.Dellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05634519605152190304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5030627662498151745.post-81458919563752803432015-12-02T08:43:52.929-05:002015-12-02T08:43:52.929-05:00Great choices here. I really need to see some more...Great choices here. I really need to see some more of these Bergman (Ingmar and Ingrid) films.Shane Slaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04527212913193906828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5030627662498151745.post-531363835803695812015-12-02T05:25:02.875-05:002015-12-02T05:25:02.875-05:00Gena Rowlands in A Woman Under the Influence was a...Gena Rowlands in A Woman Under the Influence was a performance for the ages, great to see it in your top 10! <br /><br />I wish I knew why you loved these performances, I guess that's for another day, and another post :)Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09395044055566348346noreply@blogger.com