Best Actor in Short Cuts

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a lot of the bits don't signify on their own, but I coulda watched three hours of Tom Waits and Lily Tomlin.

TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 20:55 (four years ago) link

xposts Or, otoh, The Company is pretty close to Altman's post-'70s best. Is what I think you meant to say.

Dr. Teeth and the Women (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 20:55 (four years ago) link

a dead body and Lil Huey.

rubber Huey

don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 21:25 (four years ago) link

Baby Huey

Hongro Hongro Hippies (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 23:01 (four years ago) link

Surprised I didn't vote in this, but maybe I couldn't settle on one person, there are so many really good performances.

clemenza, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 23:36 (four years ago) link

three years pass...

xps Bruce Davison gave my favorite performance in this, and Lily Tomlin with Tom Waits was great. (Also Lili Taylor as her daughter was a great bit of casting.) I love Julianne Moore, but I have a mixed feelings about this role. It did help her career though - early on it felt like she was being pulled in two different directions, doing thankless roles for empty commercial work like Jurassic Park 2, Assassins and that Ivan Reitman alien movie (though she was great in the Hand that Rocks the Cradle and she was a good sport about the Fugitive) but after Short Cuts she went on to appear in Todd Haynes's Safe (for my money, the greatest work either did), Vanya on 42nd Street (the best performance in an excellent cast) and Boogie Nights.

birdistheword, Saturday, 28 October 2023 04:37 (five months ago) link

Jurassic Park 2, Assassins and that Ivan Reitman alien movie

She made those after SC, or am I misreading you?

hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 28 October 2023 09:35 (five months ago) link


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