Tag: actress
Actober: 50 Major Child Performances 6/10
The art form of cinema often seems like a kind of paradise to a child. I know I remember it so. Still do. Whether your…
Actober: Natalie Portman, Today's American Sweatheart – and 12 to Stream
There have been so many American Sweethearts that in today’s selection of talent, it is impossible to land on a single woman who captures audiences’…
Actober: 50 Major Child Performances 5/10
The relationship between a child and the parents is an essential experience. It can be a euphoric experience, a volatile affair, spanning across a lifetime,…
Actober: Faye Dearest – A Defence of Dunaway's Performance in Mommie Dearest
“Of all the actresses, to me, only Faye Dunaway has the talent and the class and the courage it takes to make a real star.”…
Actober: 50 Major Child Performances 4/10
Some children are honored or burdened with carrying the world on their shoulders. Given such responsibilities might well alter the child’s eye view of their…
Actober: 50 Major Child Performances 3/10
The delay in getting the third installment out of the great children’s performances, I could easily blame on my own kids. That’d be ironic. And…
Actober: The Essential Juliette Binoche Watchlist
As I look back at my own film honors over the decades, both on paper, and in my fond film memories, French Juliette Binoche pops…
Masterpiece Memo: Alice et Martin (1998, directed by Andre Techine)
Following her Oscar win for The English Patient, Juliette Binoche returned to her native France and acted in Alice et Martin. This reunited her with…
Actober: 50 Major Child Performances 2/10
So onto part two of the bunch of kids shining bright in the movies. The following batch are not exactly nuisances per se, but boy…
Actober: 50 Major Child Performances 1/10
How many of you have cherished memories of your children performing in plays at school? And you would videotape them, take photographs. Gush with other…
Actober – Brie Larson, the Chameleon Actress in 5 Takes
I keep happily rediscovering #BrieLarson – she is one clandestine chameleon of an actress. #Community #ShortTerm12 #ScottPilgram #Greenburg — Robin Write (@Filmotomy) March 13, 2014…
Mary Pickford: The Heart of the Movies in 50 Beats
So iconic, wonderful, inspiring, a treasure for all film-lovers, Mary Pickford might well be the most important woman in the history of cinema. So varied,…
Cinema 2018 Half-Time Report: 11 Memorable Performances
Well, there is actually 12… We joined forces to come up with just a handful of our very favourite performances of 2018 in cinema so…
Performance: Harriet Andersson in Through a Glass Darkly
I recently gushed over Harriet Andersson for her career-defining performance in Summer with Monika. A catapult, too, for her director Ingmar Bergman. I fell in…
