Inspired by Emily Lloyd’s superlative, breakout performance in Wish You Were Here, what are your top 5 movie performances, be they lead, supporting or bit part role, human or non-human?
Here’s mine:
Ulrich Mühe - The Lives Of Others
Diane Keaton - Annie Hall
Emily Lloyd - Wish You Were Here
Daniel Day Lewis - There Will Be Blood
Isabelle Huppert - The Piano Teacher
Yours?
That kamikaze bin in The Creator
Geoff from Corra in Wonka
Not seen any others worth noting
Without too much thinking or scrutiny
DDL in There Will Be Blood
Rooney Mara in Carol
Charles Grodin in The Heartbreak Kid
Steven Yeun in Burning
Fuck it, Rachel McAdams in Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
John Candy in Cool Runnings
John Candy in Uncle Buck
John Candy in Home Alone
John Candy in The Blues Brothers
The red car in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Paddy Considine - Dead Man’s Shoes
Gene Wilder - Willy Wonka
Billy Bob Thornton - Sling Blade
Desiree Nosbusch - Der Fan
Lee J Cobb - 12 Angry Men
Caught this on channel 4 late one night, couldn’t look away
Zak Dingles hat in Emmerdale
Off the top of my head
Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast
John Goodman in Barton Fink
Philip Seymour Hoffman in The Master
Richard E Grant in Withnail & I
Fuck it, Rachel McAdams in Game Night
Sheryl lee - twin peaks: fire walk with me
James cagney - white heat
Toshiro mifune - yojimbo
Scarlet johansson - under the skin
Frances mcdormand - fargo
I can’t recall things like this without seeing the films in front of me so going by what I can see it’s
Kate beckinsale in last days of disco
Keanu Reeves in Point Break
Mike Myers in Wayne’s World
Arnold Schwarzenegger in Total Recall
Billy Bob Thornton in The Man Who Wasn’t There
Adam Sandler in Happy Gilmore
Clarence Boddiker is one of the all time top drawer pieces of shit in cinema
First one that came to mind.
There’s been lots of fantastic performances in films IMO
DDL in There Will Be Blood
De Niro in Taxi Driver
Jeff Bridges in The Big Lebowski
Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
Al Pacino in Serpico
Marisa Tomei - My Cousin Vinny
Joe Pesci - My Cousin Vinny
Lane Smith - My Cousin Vinny
Fred Gwynne - My Cousin Vinny
The Cat from The Cat From Outer Space
