I voted 'NO' not out of any particular dislike of Sandra Bullock, but generally her movies just don't appeal to me. I've only seen four of them, and I had forgotten that she was in two of the four:
Demolition Man (forgot she was in it, mostly forgot everything about it except for Wesley Snipes defeating the eye-scan security system - useful info to know, that)
Speed (I remembered this one, and her in it)
A Time to Kill (didn't remember she was in it, really don't remember a thing about the movie; I think I started forgetting it immediately after the movie, some movies are like that - another example would be Wolf with Jack Nicholson)
Ms. Congeniality (I remember watching the movie and finding it amusing enough, and her being good in it, but I don't remember much else)
I like most of her movies. I didn't see Blind Side or Gravity.
Isn't she one of the "highest grossing" actresses? I'm not sure but I think they figure that out, not by what she gets paid but by the total box office of whatever movie that she's in.
Whatever she's like in real life, a person doesn't get the Prima Donna vibe, the "I'm too classy for your movie" vibe.
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To counter claims of being a serial philanderer, Bullock's husband Jesse James asserted that "the vast majority of the allegations [of infidelity] reported are untrue".
That she went ahead with the divorce just shows how petty and unforgiving she is.
Titus said... Ian Thorpe, world class swimmer, is a big
I just finished writing about this. Didn't anticipate anyone else would notice. I like swimming as an exercise and follow it during the Olympics. Thorpe is a sad case in a way, hard to know how much his struggles with his sexuality contributed to his early retirement from the sport. Arguably the best Australian swimmer, among a large number of very good swimmers.
I don't know how well Demolition Man will hold up after so long but I remember thinking it was really great at the time, and Sandra was so cute trying to swear.
She's my favorite actress for basic bubble gum, popcorn, and soda movie for summer fun and comedy. But with the exception of "The Blind Side", I don't enjoy her movies with drama, particularly her more serious romance movies. As a person, she's nice to look at, but her choice of men convinces me to stay far away.
Gravity was just bad, I don't care who was in it. The whole concept was bad and the science was horrible. The only nice thing I can say about that movie was the spacecraft interiors were fairly accurate. That's it.
It's a Sly Rocky Rambo movie, ultra-violent in parts, with all real problems solved by ultra-violence, as I recall.
Stallone plays a cop. He and one of the bad guys he catches get frozen, by law, because they're too damned violent to be allowed to run around in polite society. Decades later, when the world looks like a sanitized version of Star Trek's future (yes, it's that bland), Wesley Snipes (the bad guy mentioned above) gets thawed out and goes on a rampage. And since no one else has any testosterone OR SENSE in the future they have to defrost Stallone and his supply of horse steroids to take care of business.
The idea is that everyone has been so pacified that no one has any idea at all what to do when Snipes' character is thawed out.
I remember the violence far less than I remember the comedy details like, while he was frozen Stallone was subject to therapy programming so that he has a compulsion to knit.
A while ago somewhere I don't know when I was watching a movie with a friend. I fell in love with the actress. She was playing a part that I could understand.
Sandra Bullock? I can't remember much about her acting career. I know she married Jesse James after he divorced a stripper, then divorced him after he took up with multiple strippers. So maybe her judgement isn't so good.
I think "actress" means a women who acts memorably. Bullock seems to fit into the category of "memorizes lines, looks great!"
For me (and here's a glance at my age) that means Helen Mirren. Grace, talent and beauty.
Her character liked commercial jingles and people were fined whenever they swore. People covered there ears when they heard swears.
In the pageant movie she was a klutz who snorted when she laughed, and she kept fighting with the other lady cop and eventually saved her from drowning. They did a great number with drag queens imitating the keep on rolling lady. And the guy who played the mad queen assistant was also great. So two greats right there.
I have been a movie fan my entire life. IMO, there are great movie stars and great actors/actresses. I consider Bullock a movie star who has improved her craft skills during her star status. I like actors/actresses that aren't movie stars. Hell, my favorite actors are character actors. Harry Dean Stanton, Bruce Dern, Billy Bob Thornton, Sam Rockwell, and many more. I like Bullock, she's real. I like Laura Dern and Hillary Swank. Haz mentioned Helen Mirren. She is a great leading actress but not a movie star. Gene Hackman is a great leading actor but not a movie star. Robert Redford has been a movie star his entire anointed life but he's a horseshit actor. The Duke was a movie star who improved his skills. But he was never a great actor, IMO he became a very good one over his career.
I also like Hugh Grant, but, to provide context, Rupert Everett is one of my favorite actors. I find it hard to watch men of a generally cultured and artist bent pretend to be tough guys on screen. I prefer them to play to type.
Jennifer Lawrence has enormous talent. Her first role in Winter's Bone was am incredible job for a young actress. I fear she is going to become a movie star and not work on her craft. But, she continues to take substantive roles and nail them. She seems very down to earth. She has not allowed the industry to turn her anorexic, she loves cheesesteaks for chrissake. She could be a Hall of Famer if she keeps her head on straight.
Deborah, I think acting has improved so much. There were great actors pre 1970, but there weren't many great roles, particularly for women. I think the great actresses of yesteryears were every bit as good as the great ones today, but there were fewer of them because there were fewer roles.
Bette Davis, Katherine Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Lauren Bacall, and Vivien Leigh are 5 great actresses pre 70's. Streep is a very good actress but I don't like her. I will give you current great actresses I like, in no particular order. Laura Dern, Hillary Swank, Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Helen Mirren, and Kathy Bates. Bullock and Lawrence are also on the list. There are more, they come off the top of my head.
"Bette Davis, Katherine Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Lauren Bacall, and Vivien Leigh are 5 great actresses pre 70's"
Bacall couldn't act worth shit. Hepburn was very good at playing variations of Kate Hepburn. The other 3 were very good. Film acting is overrated unless you're filming a heavy drama or Shakespeare or Chekhov. Usually its best to have a well-cast Movie Star who can act well enough.
Bullock is very good looking. She was in "Speed", but like most actresses these days, hasn't made much impression on me.
re Demolition Man, it sounds far better than I thought it might be.
Sadly, I am not a Stallone fan. But I will still watch.
It has it moments.
Bullock sees the 20th century as one long "Starsky and Hutch" episode, Sly gets to take more than a few apt shots at a sterile (you need a license to have sex, much less get pregnant)*, PC-driven Welfare State, and Wesley snipes has some pretty good lines.
You'll probably like as long as you can keep a sense of humor.
I like Bullock. I'll watch a movie just because she's in it. She seems real. Approachable. Surprising no one has mentioned her post-Katrina put-her-money-where-her-mouth-is involvement. That and the fact that she likes to get her hands dirty doing her own home improvement helo me like her even more.
Sandra is one of the few actresses credible in an action hero role. Her only rival in this category is Jennifer Lawrence. I've seen Jessica Alba, Kiera Knight and Scarlett Johannsen in superhero roles. They look very good in tight latex outfits, but they just don't look especially brave or tough or gritty......Sandra and Jennifer both look durable and gritty. If you had to break the sod in Commanche territory, they'd be a good helpmate.....I give Jennifer the nod over Sandra in this category. You can see not just her courage but the fear and uncertainty that her courage overcomes.
Sixty, try Two Weeks Notice and Miss Congeniality. They're both great.
re great actresses, Bacall didn't act so much as 'attitude.' But damn she was good :)
I think the greatest old time actress was Davis.
Yes, rc, Katherine played Katherine quite well. Bergman was simply lovely, but was she a GREAT actress? (I really don't know.)
Nick makes a great point about needing great roles. If you've seen Davis in A Catered Affair, where she plays a lower class housewife who wants to put on a nice wedding for her daughter, but money is so tight, you can barely recognize her. In that way, she's like Streep.
I think a truly great actress is a chameleon who can take on a wide range of roles and become them.
I have watched Ingrid Bergman in a number of movies - what impressed me about her was her ability to control her facial muscles. It is truly a wonderful thing to behold.
Yeah, I know, she's real easy to watch, but seriously, she could convey a lot of emotion through her face.
I talked to a friend who has spent her entire adult life trying to become an actress, she's not bad, but you know, anyway, she discounted my opinion about Bergman, and declared that acting was all about the voice.
As has been mentioned here before, that could come down to the difference between stage acting (project to the back of the theater) versus screen acting, where one's face is 20 feet tall on the screen. Or was. Those days are as gone as drive-ins and movie palaces.
Anyway, when properly lit, Ingrid Bergman was a stunning beauty, good actress, and a joy to behold.
I have noticed that certain men I don't find attractive are great actors, I think because they are chameleons; John Cusack, Kevin Spacey, and Nick Cage come to mind. They make great movies.
(1) If I could have sex with Sandra Bullock, I'd never ask God for anything else, ever again, for as long as I lived.
(2) WARNING: I'm about to do something exceedingly cruel, so if you're not in the mood, just stop reading right now.
(3) Next time you see a movie or TV scene with a man and a woman confronting one another face to face, watch what the actress is doing with her eyes. She'll direct her gaze back and forth from one side of the man's face to the other, repeatedly, while the man will always keep his eyes straight ahead. Jessica Paré and Jon Hamm, for example.
"Yes, rc, Katherine played Katherine quite well. Bergman was simply lovely, but was she a GREAT actress? (I really don't know.)"
Next time you watch Casablanca, look how Bergman uses her eyes. She's quite good. And she held her own against Ullmann in "Autumn Sonata" and Goldie Hawn in "The Cactus Flower".
For pure Film actress ability, I always enjoyed Geraldine Page and Vanessa Redgrave.
I've noticed that, with a few exceptions, the current movie stars are much better film ACTORS than the old Classic ones. But they are also less charismatic and distinctive. Pretty much every Old-time 30s/40s/50s had a distinctive voice. Which is why Rich Little became a rich man doing impressions of them.
Most of the new ones, don't have unique distinctive voices. Which allows them to have more range.
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She's likable, and some of her movies are fun, but her performances don't leave a mark. She no Jennifer Lawrence.
I was surprised, and maybe a little bit disappointed, to find out she's not Jewish.
He name alone used to be enough to dissuade me from a movie. Now I find her passable in some things.
I can't say i remember one performance standing out over all, from what i've seen of her.
She does Sandra and the public seems to likes it.
She does have some assets.
Did you see The Blind Side, Lem? That was a pretty stand out, very different, performance from her.
I voted 'NO' not out of any particular dislike of Sandra Bullock, but generally her movies just don't appeal to me. I've only seen four of them, and I had forgotten that she was in two of the four:
Demolition Man (forgot she was in it, mostly forgot everything about it except for Wesley Snipes defeating the eye-scan security system - useful info to know, that)
Speed (I remembered this one, and her in it)
A Time to Kill (didn't remember she was in it, really don't remember a thing about the movie; I think I started forgetting it immediately after the movie, some movies are like that - another example would be Wolf with Jack Nicholson)
Ms. Congeniality (I remember watching the movie and finding it amusing enough, and her being good in it, but I don't remember much else)
So, 'NO' just because.
Can we just vote on her legs?
I like most of her movies. I didn't see Blind Side or Gravity.
Isn't she one of the "highest grossing" actresses? I'm not sure but I think they figure that out, not by what she gets paid but by the total box office of whatever movie that she's in.
Whatever she's like in real life, a person doesn't get the Prima Donna vibe, the "I'm too classy for your movie" vibe.
Hi Everyone! How are you? I am super, thanks for asking! The Indian hubby and I just returned from the beach. I watched porno the entire time we were there-weird.
Anyhoo, we are taking a nap and then going to fab Grill 23 tonight for din din. A rare weekend in the sleepy city. We were tempted to take the ferry to Ptown but we decided not.
I hope all of you are having a super republican, white, old, straight and patriotic summer!
Keep reaching for the stars!
best,
tits,
titus.
To counter claims of being a serial philanderer, Bullock's husband Jesse James asserted that "the vast majority of the allegations [of infidelity] reported are untrue".
That she went ahead with the divorce just shows how petty and unforgiving she is.
But I still voted "!" to show Deborah we can agree on certain celebrities. Especially ones that show talent.
I had forgotten about Speed, rather average, but watchable. First time I ever came across her or Keanu.
The brief minutes I saw of The Blindside were amazing because I could't get it out of my head she wasn't Kathy Lee Gifford.
But I do enjoy her romantic comedies a lot. I vote yes.
That takes a big man, John. I appreciate that :)
What do flyover red states do when they don't have a beach or coast? Bitch about the NY Times, Obama, Gays, Coastal Elites-that's the ticket.
I feel bad for them...they are missing out on the grandeur of the ocean....oh well.
tits and make it a super special day with great food, friends, conversation and laughs!!!!!!
tits.
OK, time for nappy wappy but did you here fellow republicans and lovers of the Bush doctrine?
Ian Thorpe, world class swimmer, is a big fudge packer...shocking.
Maybe chick can do a photoshop of a skunk up his ass!
tits and have a super day. I hope all your chaka khans are in alignment and your third eye is clear and ready for takeoff.
Buckle your seats, it's going to be a bumpy ride....and this isn't our first time at the rodeo-ok?
"Speed" was her big break, but, yes, she was very endearing in "Demolition Man".
What? Titus's -- Indian is it? Remind us again lest we forget -- hubby didn't care to ride his fairy to P-Town. Too bad.
Titus said...
Ian Thorpe, world class swimmer, is a big
I just finished writing about this. Didn't anticipate anyone else would notice. I like swimming as an exercise and follow it during the Olympics. Thorpe is a sad case in a way, hard to know how much his struggles with his sexuality contributed to his early retirement from the sport. Arguably the best Australian swimmer, among a large number of very good swimmers.
Never saw Demolition Man, will have to find it.
Titus, it's OKAY to be a bottom. Try not to let your bitterness over it seep into your postings here. It makes you look bad.
Tits.
ARM - Enjoyed reading your Fat Drunk and Stupid post. 2 Thumbs up from me.
I don't know how well Demolition Man will hold up after so long but I remember thinking it was really great at the time, and Sandra was so cute trying to swear.
She's my favorite actress for basic bubble gum, popcorn, and soda movie for summer fun and comedy. But with the exception of "The Blind Side", I don't enjoy her movies with drama, particularly her more serious romance movies. As a person, she's nice to look at, but her choice of men convinces me to stay far away.
Gravity was just bad, I don't care who was in it. The whole concept was bad and the science was horrible. The only nice thing I can say about that movie was the spacecraft interiors were fairly accurate. That's it.
Some body.
Horny Old Dawg that I am, I looked for some nude pics on the internet, but could find none.
Never saw Demolition Man, will have to find it.
It's a Sly Rocky Rambo movie, ultra-violent in parts, with all real problems solved by ultra-violence, as I recall.
Stallone plays a cop. He and one of the bad guys he catches get frozen, by law, because they're too damned violent to be allowed to run around in polite society. Decades later, when the world looks like a sanitized version of Star Trek's future (yes, it's that bland), Wesley Snipes (the bad guy mentioned above) gets thawed out and goes on a rampage. And since no one else has any testosterone OR SENSE in the future they have to defrost Stallone and his supply of horse steroids to take care of business.
Um, in case it isn't clear, Stallone is defrosted for his (artificially enhanced) testosterone, not his sense.
Titus,
I got over trying to outrage the adults over fucking back when I was still a teenager.
You got any plans to become an adult?
The idea is that everyone has been so pacified that no one has any idea at all what to do when Snipes' character is thawed out.
I remember the violence far less than I remember the comedy details like, while he was frozen Stallone was subject to therapy programming so that he has a compulsion to knit.
A while ago somewhere
I don't know when
I was watching
a movie with a friend.
I fell in love with the actress.
She was playing a part
that I could understand.
Sandra Bullock? I can't remember much about her acting career. I know she married Jesse James after he divorced a stripper, then divorced him after he took up with multiple strippers. So maybe her judgement isn't so good.
I think "actress" means a women who acts memorably. Bullock seems to fit into the category of "memorizes lines, looks great!"
For me (and here's a glance at my age) that means Helen Mirren. Grace, talent and beauty.
Her character liked commercial jingles and people were fined whenever they swore. People covered there ears when they heard swears.
In the pageant movie she was a klutz who snorted when she laughed, and she kept fighting with the other lady cop and eventually saved her from drowning. They did a great number with drag queens imitating the keep on rolling lady. And the guy who played the mad queen assistant was also great. So two greats right there.
April Apple said...
ARM - Enjoyed reading your Fat Drunk and Stupid post
Thanks. I am getting better at writing posts but I don't have the outrage level necessary to be very prolific. I get distracted too much by work.
re Demolition Man, it sounds far better than I thought it might be.
Sadly, I am not a Stallone fan. But I will still watch.
" but I don't have the outrage level necessary to be very prolific"
So much the better. Short but sweet is the ticket :)
"But I still voted "!" to show Deborah we can agree on certain celebrities. Especially ones that show talent."
Or leg.
Now I know I don't spend enough time in the comments. I just found out ARM has a blog.
I'll try to stop by and throw in a heckle/comment. Hope you enjoy it ARM.
Two Weeks Notice, with Hugh Grant is good.
I like Practical Magic a lot for the ambiance. And the logic.
Miss Congeniality is probably her best.
""But I still voted "!" to show Deborah we can agree on certain celebrities. Especially ones that show talent."
Or leg."
She has goddess proportions from what I can tell
Hey, that one with Bullock and Thomas Hayden Church is good. All About Steve. Not great, but entertaining. And of course, Church steals the show.
Not related, but I watched Repo Man quite late. Some stuff you need to watch in its era.
Let's hear it for Hugh Grant. He's like Bullock in that I think I can watch him in just about anything. Really liked his "About a Boy".
I have been a movie fan my entire life. IMO, there are great movie stars and great actors/actresses. I consider Bullock a movie star who has improved her craft skills during her star status. I like actors/actresses that aren't movie stars. Hell, my favorite actors are character actors. Harry Dean Stanton, Bruce Dern, Billy Bob Thornton, Sam Rockwell, and many more. I like Bullock, she's real. I like Laura Dern and Hillary Swank. Haz mentioned Helen Mirren. She is a great leading actress but not a movie star. Gene Hackman is a great leading actor but not a movie star. Robert Redford has been a movie star his entire anointed life but he's a horseshit actor. The Duke was a movie star who improved his skills. But he was never a great actor, IMO he became a very good one over his career.
Deborah, Correct about repo man. The movie Joe is definitely an era flick.
Nick @ 6:37; Thought-provoking.
Who is the greatest actress of the old era? Of the new era?
Lydia, About A Boy is excellent. And Rachel Weiss quite beautiful.
Lydia said...
Let's hear it for Hugh Grant.
I also like Hugh Grant, but, to provide context, Rupert Everett is one of my favorite actors. I find it hard to watch men of a generally cultured and artist bent pretend to be tough guys on screen. I prefer them to play to type.
William:
"She no Jennifer Lawrence."
Wait! That's satire, right?
Jennifer Lawrence has enormous talent. Her first role in Winter's Bone was am incredible job for a young actress. I fear she is going to become a movie star and not work on her craft. But, she continues to take substantive roles and nail them. She seems very down to earth. She has not allowed the industry to turn her anorexic, she loves cheesesteaks for chrissake. She could be a Hall of Famer if she keeps her head on straight.
Maureen O'Hara was, and might still be, great.
I enjoy watching Barbara Stanwyck - she played some interesting characters.
I liked Sandra Bullock in While You Were Sleeping, but I have no desire to watch that again.
Deborah, I think acting has improved so much. There were great actors pre 1970, but there weren't many great roles, particularly for women. I think the great actresses of yesteryears were every bit as good as the great ones today, but there were fewer of them because there were fewer roles.
Bette Davis, Katherine Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Lauren Bacall, and Vivien Leigh are 5 great actresses pre 70's. Streep is a very good actress but I don't like her. I will give you current great actresses I like, in no particular order. Laura Dern, Hillary Swank, Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Helen Mirren, and Kathy Bates. Bullock and Lawrence are also on the list. There are more, they come off the top of my head.
I think this pic is photo-shopped. I don't remember her having a great body like this.
What a coinkydink. I read this then go turn on the telly and there's "Gravity" playing for the first time.
Haven't seen it yet but I'm guessing that either George sacrifices himself to save Sandra or vice versa. Is that about right?
As to the point of the post, Sandra rocks.
"Bette Davis, Katherine Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Lauren Bacall, and Vivien Leigh are 5 great actresses pre 70's"
Bacall couldn't act worth shit. Hepburn was very good at playing variations of Kate Hepburn. The other 3 were very good. Film acting is overrated unless you're filming a heavy drama or Shakespeare or Chekhov. Usually its best to have a well-cast Movie Star who can act well enough.
Bullock is very good looking. She was in "Speed", but like most actresses these days, hasn't made much impression on me.
deborah said...
re Demolition Man, it sounds far better than I thought it might be.
Sadly, I am not a Stallone fan. But I will still watch.
It has it moments.
Bullock sees the 20th century as one long "Starsky and Hutch" episode, Sly gets to take more than a few apt shots at a sterile (you need a license to have sex, much less get pregnant)*, PC-driven Welfare State, and Wesley snipes has some pretty good lines.
You'll probably like as long as you can keep a sense of humor.
*made in '94, it's surprisingly prescient.
I like Bullock. I'll watch a movie just because she's in it. She seems real. Approachable. Surprising no one has mentioned her post-Katrina put-her-money-where-her-mouth-is involvement. That and the fact that she likes to get her hands dirty doing her own home improvement helo me like her even more.
*help ... :|
Sandra is one of the few actresses credible in an action hero role. Her only rival in this category is Jennifer Lawrence. I've seen Jessica Alba, Kiera Knight and Scarlett Johannsen in superhero roles. They look very good in tight latex outfits, but they just don't look especially brave or tough or gritty......Sandra and Jennifer both look durable and gritty. If you had to break the sod in Commanche territory, they'd be a good helpmate.....I give Jennifer the nod over Sandra in this category. You can see not just her courage but the fear and uncertainty that her courage overcomes.
Nick, oops, wrong Jennifer. I don't even know what Jennifer Lawrence looks like, but I will look for her.
Sixty, try Two Weeks Notice and Miss Congeniality. They're both great.
re great actresses, Bacall didn't act so much as 'attitude.' But damn she was good :)
I think the greatest old time actress was Davis.
Yes, rc, Katherine played Katherine quite well. Bergman was simply lovely, but was she a GREAT actress? (I really don't know.)
Nick makes a great point about needing great roles. If you've seen Davis in A Catered Affair, where she plays a lower class housewife who wants to put on a nice wedding for her daughter, but money is so tight, you can barely recognize her. In that way, she's like Streep.
I think a truly great actress is a chameleon who can take on a wide range of roles and become them.
Lydia, I love Hugh Grant in Sense and Sensibility.
I have watched Ingrid Bergman in a number of movies - what impressed me about her was her ability to control her facial muscles. It is truly a wonderful thing to behold.
Yeah, I know, she's real easy to watch, but seriously, she could convey a lot of emotion through her face.
I talked to a friend who has spent her entire adult life trying to become an actress, she's not bad, but you know, anyway, she discounted my opinion about Bergman, and declared that acting was all about the voice.
As has been mentioned here before, that could come down to the difference between stage acting (project to the back of the theater) versus screen acting, where one's face is 20 feet tall on the screen. Or was. Those days are as gone as drive-ins and movie palaces.
Anyway, when properly lit, Ingrid Bergman was a stunning beauty, good actress, and a joy to behold.
Yes, she's one of my top picks for beauty. Probably because she reminds me of my mom. And oddly, her daughter Isabella really looks like my mom.
Sixty, Stage acting is all about the voice. Big and small screen is about the face, and the EYES, the window to the soul.
I have noticed that certain men I don't find attractive are great actors, I think because they are chameleons; John Cusack, Kevin Spacey, and Nick Cage come to mind. They make great movies.
Interesting observation about eyes, Nick. I will test it empirically :)
(1) If I could have sex with Sandra Bullock, I'd never ask God for anything else, ever again, for as long as I lived.
(2) WARNING: I'm about to do something exceedingly cruel, so if you're not in the mood, just stop reading right now.
(3) Next time you see a movie or TV scene with a man and a woman confronting one another face to face, watch what the actress is doing with her eyes. She'll direct her gaze back and forth from one side of the man's face to the other, repeatedly, while the man will always keep his eyes straight ahead. Jessica Paré and Jon Hamm, for example.
(4) I'm sorry I had to do that. I really am.
That's the hunter in men, focus like a laser beam.
"Yes, rc, Katherine played Katherine quite well. Bergman was simply lovely, but was she a GREAT actress? (I really don't know.)"
Next time you watch Casablanca, look how Bergman uses her eyes. She's quite good. And she held her own against Ullmann in "Autumn Sonata" and Goldie Hawn in "The Cactus Flower".
For pure Film actress ability, I always enjoyed Geraldine Page and Vanessa Redgrave.
I've noticed that, with a few exceptions, the current movie stars are much better film ACTORS than the old Classic ones. But they are also less charismatic and distinctive. Pretty much every Old-time 30s/40s/50s had a distinctive voice. Which is why Rich Little became a rich man doing impressions of them.
Most of the new ones, don't have unique distinctive voices. Which allows them to have more range.
I liked Geraldine Page in Trip to Bountiful. A very poignant movie.
And she was quite unlikable in Woody Allen's Interiors, so she must be good :)
Definitely should look for some more of her movies. Any recommendations?
"Definitely should look for some more of her movies. Any recommendations?"
She was good in "Summer and Smoke" written by Tennessee Williams.
Thanks, rc. I'll look right now to see if it's on Amazon.
Thanks, rc, it was free on Amazon prime. Two hours is a bit much these days for what is now a dated piece, but I'm glad I watched it :)
My she reminded me of Joanne Woodward.
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