Senso's Top 10 Favorite Actors
I like the topic of Derek Vinyard, so I hope he will forgive me for this theft :D
Let's start! #10 Marlon Brando - an actor named desire (1924 - 2004) http://iv1.lisimg.com/image/7904430/...lon-brando.jpg I have to admit I haven't seen a lot of films with Marlon Brando but he was fascinating. He had a such sensual presence on the screen which drives me mad. It was a beast ! I've seen a documentary film about him the last year (Marlon Brando : An Actor Named Desire) which revealed how insane he was. I think he could have been to act Dominique Strauss-Kahn in a film :D I've seen : On The Waterfront (my favorite with Marlon) - One Eyes-Jacks - The Nightcomers - The Godfather - The Last Tango In Paris and Apocalypse Now. (And : You Rock My World. No, I'm kidding :D ) |
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I haven't seen many of his films either, but I adore A Streetcar Named Desire and The Godfather so one of those two! :)
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I've not seen many of his films and actually hated The Godfather. I do appreciate that first picture you posted though. :randy:
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On The Waterfront
Last Tango In Paris A Streetcar Named Desire The Godfather I never heard of that documentary, could only find a 45 second trailer :( |
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Brando is the *****.
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I think Brando's performance in A Streetcar Named Desire is the single best Lead Actor performance in cinema history.
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The Godfather is the easy answer, but I really loved One-Eyed Jacks as well.
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Thank you for your answers! I'll try to watch A Streetcar Named Desire in the next days because I'm on holidays :)
#9 Dirk Bogarde (1921 - 1999) http://image.toutlecine.com/photos/b...-dirk-01-g.jpg What a classy man! His best roles are in Joseph Losey and Luchino Visconti's films where he played tortured and ambiguous characters. Death in Venice is one of my favorite film, his performance is in my Pantheon of film buff. I really love The Servant, Accident by Joseph Losey, The Damned by Luchino Visconti and of course the provocative film by Liliana Cavani : The Night Porter with Charlotte Rampling. I'd like to see Providence by Alains Resnais and Victim by Basil Dearden, it's the first British film which uses the word "homosexuality". Dirk was homosexual and it was not easy to him to "show" his homosexuality until this film. A new trailer of The Servant : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaXOI5c-Cg4 Have you seen films with Dirk? What films do you like? |
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Besides yours, my fave are:
King & Country Darling Despair The Fixer Oh! What a Lovely War The Password Is Courage Damn the Defiant! Libel A Tale of Two Cities So Long at the Fair Quartet |
Wow! You're an expert :)
I didn't like King & Country very much but I should try to see it again. Darling seems nice, I'll try to watch it! |
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King & Country is a bloody masterpiece, my chaps!
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Yes, yes... I'll watch it again - (one day :D)
#8 Jean-Pierre Léaud (1944 - ) http://medias.unifrance.org/medias/6...erre-leaud.jpg He's famous for the role of Antoine Doinel, the alter-ego of François Truffaut in The 400 Blows, Antoine and Colette, Stolen Kisses, Bed and Board and in Love On The Run. Jean-Pierre Léaud has an unusual phrasing. A lot of people don't like the "artificial" way he talks but to me he talks like a melody and it's a pleasure to listen to him. He has also an elegant gesture and something of aristocratic. He had a rich and varied carrer, worked for Truffaut, Godard, Cocteau, Pasolini, Skolimowski, Garrel, Eustache, Rocha, etc. http://iv1.lisimg.com/image/1601075/...l%C3%A9aud.jpg http://philitt.fr/wp-content/uploads...ud-620x330.jpg With F. Truffaut http://sensesofcinema.com/wp-content...ud-620x400.jpg http://40.media.tumblr.com/0b112888a...fbzo1_1280.jpg Films I've seen and my fav in bold : The 400 Blows, F. Truffaut Testament Of Orpheus, J. Cocteau Antoine and Colette, F. Truffaut Pierrot Le Fou, J.-L. Godard (as an extra) Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes, J. Eustache Alphaville, J.-L. Godard Stolen Kisses, F. Truffaut Pigsty, P. P. Pasolini Bed And Board, F. Truffaut Last Tango In Paris, B. Bertolucci The Mother And The Whore, J. Eutache Day For Night, F. Truffaut Love On The Run, F. Truffaut 36 Fillette, C. Breillat Le Havre, A. Kaurismäki Even if I'm not a huge fan of Godard, I'd like to see La Chinoise. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hfdXIW73-M The first audition of Léaud for The 400 Blows, he's so cute :D http://blog.desistfilm.com/wp-conten...-americana.jpg Day For Night, a film about a filming |
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I wonder if Jean-Pierre Léaud is still really well known in France. I watch a lot of french television, but I've never seen him being interviewed, I've never even seen him in a movie after the 1970's.
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I suppose people our age don't know him except those who are interested in cinema but in my parents' generations (50's), he is well known even for those who are not film buffs. We don't see him on the TV because he doesn't act a lot anymore and I suppose he's not interested by TV and by promotion. It could be possible to see him on Arte and that's all!
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Aki Kaurismäki's I Hired a Contract Killer, La Vie de Bohème, Le Havre and Olivier Assayas' Irma Vep all are post-'70s.
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#7 Gian Maria Volontè (1933 - 1994) http://49.media.tumblr.com/7cbf09137...d7lko1_400.gif http://img.tgcom24.mediaset.it/binar...em_1_image.jpg I suppose he's best known for his roles in Leone's films like A Few More Dollars and A Fistul Of Dollars. His best roles are in political and social Italian films : his feverish perform in The Working Class Goes To Heaven is amazing. The kafkaesque Investigation Of A Citizen Above Suspicion is one of the best and clever film about corruption which is still relevant in our time. Volontè was an activist and accepted to play only in films with a political aspect. http://docfilms.uchicago.edu/dev/ima...15-04-02-1.jpg http://cf2.imgobject.com/t/p/origina...d9YJgeghFC.jpg A short extract of Investigation Of A Citizen Above Suspicion (I do some promotion for this film :D). But really, it's not a film "trapped" in a left political vision. Even my best friend who can't stand Volontè, Petri and the (Italian) militant cinema loves this film :D It's very ironic. https://49.media.tumblr.com/726a73fc...dlpho1_400.gif If you like Leone's films, maybe you'll like A Bullet For The General, it's one of the best western spaghetti. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98HTgS85T0k Films I've seen with Gian Maria and my fav are in bold : For A Fistul Of Dollars, S. Leone For A Few More Dollars, S. Leone A Bullet For The General, D. Damiani Face To Face, S. Sollima We Still Kill The Old Way, E. Petri Many Wars Ago, F. Rosi - the Italian Paths Of Glory The Working Class Goes To Heaven, E. Petri Slap The Monster On Page One, M. Bellocchio I'd like to see : Christ Stopped At Eboli, Bandits in Milan, Sacco e Vanzetti, Todo Modo, I Am Afraid, The Mattei Affair, Plot, Giordano Bruno... I've seen his tomb on the beautiful sardinian Island La Maddalena :love: There's a quote of Paul Valéry on the tomb : The wind rises, we must try to live. |
Originally Posted by Senso_68 (Post 1428453)
Yes, yes... I'll watch it again - (one day :D)
#8 Jean-Pierre Léaud (1944 - ) http://medias.unifrance.org/medias/6...erre-leaud.jpg He's famous for the role of Antoine Doinel, the alter-ego of François Truffaut in The 400 Blows, Antoine and Colette, Stolen Kisses, Bed and Board and in Love On The Run. Jean-Pierre Léaud has an unusual phrasing. A lot of people don't like the "artificial" way he talks but to me he talks like a melody and it's a pleasure to listen to him. He has also an elegant gesture and something of aristocratic. He had a rich and varied carrer, worked for Truffaut, Godard, Cocteau, Pasolini, Skolimowski, Garrel, Eustache, Rocha, etc. http://iv1.lisimg.com/image/1601075/...l%C3%A9aud.jpg http://philitt.fr/wp-content/uploads...ud-620x330.jpg With F. Truffaut http://sensesofcinema.com/wp-content...ud-620x400.jpg http://40.media.tumblr.com/0b112888a...fbzo1_1280.jpg Films I've seen and my fav in bold : The 400 Blows, F. Truffaut Testament Of Orpheus, J. Cocteau Antoine and Colette, F. Truffaut Pierrot Le Fou, J.-L. Godard (as an extra) Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes, J. Eustache Alphaville, J.-L. Godard Stolen Kisses, F. Truffaut Pigsty, P. P. Pasolini Bed And Board, F. Truffaut Last Tango In Paris, B. Bertolucci The Mother And The Whore, J. Eutache Day For Night, F. Truffaut Love On The Run, F. Truffaut 36 Fillette, C. Breillat Le Havre, A. Kaurismäki Even if I'm not a huge fan of Godard, I'd like to see La Chinoise. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hfdXIW73-M The first audition of Léaud for The 400 Blows, he's so cute :D http://blog.desistfilm.com/wp-conten...-americana.jpg Day For Night, a film about a filming |
Ye he was, I quoted the film in the list :)
But he doesn't have an important role. http://a4.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/i...49c8fedb/l.jpg |
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I really like Volontè. He often seems larger than life, but it's always to make a larger, usually satirical, point. I own ...Above Suspicion and Many Wars Ago, which would be my two favorite of his. He's excellent in The Mattei Affair which Rosi directs as a thriller rather than a biography. Have you seen Le Circle Rouge and The Four Days of Naples?
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I still haven't seen the films of Melville! (Shame on me :D)
I don't know The Four Days Of Naples, it's an interesting film? I have to see The Mattei Affair but it doesn't exist in DVD (don't know if there is an American edition?) :bored: BTW, I'm really impressed by all the films you've seen Mark F! #6 Ivan Rassimov (1938 - 2004) http://www10.pic-upload.de/03.08.12/j74nriv28q7.jpg http://img.over-blog.com/600x265/3/0...5/RASSIMOV.jpg Ivan Rassimov (or "Sean Todd" :D) is not an important actor, he was used to play villains in Italian B-movies because of his chiseled face. But I really like him, he had a presence and I think he was unexploited. I watched some bad movies just to have the pleasure to see him. I remember I read a text about him written by his daughter who said that her father was discrete and not very interested by fame. His sister Rada Rassimov was actress too. http://kpitalrisk.free.fr/images/sta...rftgy7u8io.jpg Films I've seen (my fav in bold) : The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh, S. Martino All The Colors Of The Dark, S. Martino Your Vice Is A Locked Room And Only I Have The Key, S. Martino - my favorite movie title :D The Man From The Deep River, U. Lenzi - One of the first cannibal movie, but more an adventure movie to my mind Un Bianco Vestito Per Marailé, R. Scavolini Si può essere più bastardi dell'ispettore Cliff ? M. Dallamano - not a very good poliziottesco but he has the lead role Spasmo, U. Lenzi Rome Armed To The Teeth, U. Lenzi Quelli Della Calibro 38, M. Dallamano Last Cannibal World, R. Deodato Shock, M. Bava Eaten Alive! U. Lenzi https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...ella_cal38.jpg http://tweek.on.line.free.fr/Giallo/...mo8%20(13).jpg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dusi7WWRYWg I love the punch sounds and the indestructible brossing of Maurizio Merli :laugh: https://vimeo.com/28294561 |
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