The best actor
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Caroline Munro
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Binary & Tweed
I'd say my favorite actors are Philip Seymour Hoffman and Isabelle Huppert. They both tend to play complex and intense characters, with aspects of depressiveness and even psychopathy.
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Binary & Tweed
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Binary & Tweed
Also love Michel Simon, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Cary Grant, Barbara Stanwyck, Dominique Pinon, Paul Giamatti. Paul Newman was my favorite actor for a few years in high school and college. Lately I've really liked Nic Cage and Tom Waits and Kristen Stewart and Michelle Williams. Love Parker Posey and Sam Rockwell too.
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Look he's a great actor but really what he is is a Great Actor. Maybe The Greatest Actor. Famous not just for being a great actor but for being recognized as a Great Actor.
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Beast of Burden
It's usually one incendiary role or performance that stays with me, an almost freak coincidence of actor, director, role and time.
I'm thinking of, for example:
Anton Walbrook in Colonel Blimp
Clara Calamai in Ossessione
Meiko Keji as Scorpion
Mario Adorf in La Mala Ordina
Cher in Moonstruck
Sophia Loren in Marriage Italian Style and Two Women
Lo Lieh in King Boxer
Michael Douglas in Wall Street
Silvana Mangano in Bitter Rice
Dietrich photographed by von Sternberg
Kara Wai in almost any Shaw Brothers film
Maria Callas as Medea
Marilyn and Russell in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Gian Maria Volonté in Faccia a faccia
Jean-Louis Trintignant and Klaus Kinski in The Great Silence
Jennifer Lopez in Hustlers
Michèle Mercier in Cemetery Without Crosses
Chen Kuan-tai in The Boxer from Shantung
Rosalba Neri in Top Sensation
But the actor who I like in almost every film I see him in (Christmas in Rome, Letters to Juliet and Camelot being notable exceptions) and who has been in more films I love than anybody else is, of course, the great Franco Nero.
I'm thinking of, for example:
Anton Walbrook in Colonel Blimp
Clara Calamai in Ossessione
Meiko Keji as Scorpion
Mario Adorf in La Mala Ordina
Cher in Moonstruck
Sophia Loren in Marriage Italian Style and Two Women
Lo Lieh in King Boxer
Michael Douglas in Wall Street
Silvana Mangano in Bitter Rice
Dietrich photographed by von Sternberg
Kara Wai in almost any Shaw Brothers film
Maria Callas as Medea
Marilyn and Russell in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Gian Maria Volonté in Faccia a faccia
Jean-Louis Trintignant and Klaus Kinski in The Great Silence
Jennifer Lopez in Hustlers
Michèle Mercier in Cemetery Without Crosses
Chen Kuan-tai in The Boxer from Shantung
Rosalba Neri in Top Sensation
But the actor who I like in almost every film I see him in (Christmas in Rome, Letters to Juliet and Camelot being notable exceptions) and who has been in more films I love than anybody else is, of course, the great Franco Nero.
This is how I feel about Elliott Gould in The Long Goodbye and Ben Gazzara in Saint Jack.
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But could they do it on a wet and windy Ken Loach set in Stoke with a half-eaten packet of Rich Tea waiting for them in their trailer?
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Tom Cruise is the finest extant actor today. More range than the Himalayas.
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Not only is acting literally about range, about being able to act as people drastically different to oneself, one trick actors are like detectives that only solve one sort of crime.
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The best female actor is Timothee Chalamet.
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I'm also looking for real world evidence of acting skill through number of affairs, bigamy, successful fraud etc.
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Best British actor of our generation?
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