However, time constraints have prevented me from penning commentary to go along with the performances, so I've decided to simply post the lists in the hope that you will begin discussion/debate of the inclusions and exclusions. I'll be posting one of these every day until we reach 2007, and encourage each of you to chime in with opinions.
So we begin with 2000:
Gillian Anderson, The House of Mirth
Javier Bardem, Before Night Falls
Björk, Dancer in the Dark
Ellen Burstyn, Requiem for a Dream
Billy Crudup, Jesus' Son
Tom Hanks, Cast Away
Denis Lavant, Beau Travail
Laura Linney, You Can Count on Me
Issey Ogata, Yi Yi
Jeffrey Wright, Shaft
3 comments:
I've yet to see "The House Of Mirth", "Beau Travail" and "Yi Yi" (I know, I know), but I certainly have no objection to the others.
My favorite would have to be Ellen Burstyn. "Requiem for a Dream" has become one of my favorite films of all time over the last several years and she's the best thing about it (not to take ANYTHING away from Aronofky, Libatique, or the rest of the cast).
I'm particularly glad to see Crudup getting some love for "Jesus' Son", a film that about six people seem to remember but I love. Ditto Jeffrey Wright for "Shaft" - even back then I knew the interesting relationship between the villains played by Wright and Christian Bale was 10x better than anything going on with the good guys (Samuel L. Jackson was fairly boring as Shaft, I thought).
The one I'm least passionate about would have to be Bardem, but that's probably just because I've only seen that film once a long time ago and though I liked it, it never stuck with me the way Schnabel "Basquiat" did.
Great list, my friend. I'd add (though this an international release) both Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung in "In the Mood for Love," probably the best on-screen couple this decade. I also have a soft spot for Mark Ruffalo's performance in "You Can Count On Me."
- Tosh
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Thumbs up to Burstyn, Crudup, Hanks, Lavant, and Ruffalo.
Thumbs way down to Bjork, whose performance was like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. I was actively happy and relieved when she met her final fate at the end of that movie.
I'd replace her with - no joke - Julia Roberts in the best performance of her career, Erin Brockovich; or Joan Allen from The Contender, an otherwise mediocre movie.
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