Actresses

The one I can't stand is Geraldine Chaplin, what about:

1. Jody Foster: Most of their roles are outstanding, except Maverick of course.
2. Irene Papas: Fantastic actress, normally ignored by Holywood fans, her role in Z with Yves Montand or Zorba the Greek are incredible.
3. Giullietta Massina: Just watch her performance in La Strada or Julieta of the Spirits (Don't know oif the translation is right)
4. Greta Garbo: The Divine, outstanding in Queen Christina and Anna Karenina
5. Judi Dench: Fabulous actress from the Royal Shakespeare Company.
6. Bette Davis: Dangerous, The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (If it wasn't for Errol Flynn, the movie would had been even better)
7. Ingrid Bergman:For Whom the Bell Tolls and Csablanca are enough.

Just to mention a few.

Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - April 23 2008 at 23:41

I go with Katherine Hepburn. Great body of work and she has worked with some of the greats....Cary Grant,Spencer Tracy,Humphrey Bogart and Henry Fonda.

Had you posted Audrey instead of Katherine I would have voted for her...

Jim Garten wrote: It seems we're both fans of Sigourney, but I cannot believe you haven't mentioned her role in 'The Ice Storm':

I agree! Stunning and deeply moving. A must see.

I love Don't Look Now  so much vote for Julie Christie here. Jeanne Moreau and Mia Farrow are probably my own favorites.

Don't Look Now, Repulsion, Belle de Jour, Alien (and both the Fassfinder movies)...  not impressive, and Doctor Zhivago & Farenheit 451 incredibly lame?? Sure its not its not just tastes in films that are lame, Cuncuna?

I do hate the stupid follow up(s) to  Alien, though.

Sean Trane wrote: BaldJean wrote: Sean Trane wrote: I think the first four on that lists are the betteractresses, but certainly not my faves   Victoria April, Zabou Breitman, Elsa Zylberstein, Agnes Jaoui, Emmanuelle Beart are in my top 5 you probably mean Victoria Abril. the others I don't know, except for Emmanuelle Beart   Abril, yes of course   The other three are typical French actresses also doing movies of their own.   Jaoui usually teamsup with her husband JP Bacri         BTW: Deneuve I never thought of as an excellent actress, she's iconic and has had many roles written for her. Huppert is a much stronger actress, but she's always reaching for extremes in her roles   Adjani I used to love during the 80's, but she started losing the plot in the Claudel film, than the other film with The St Bartholomy Massacres. I think she's only two two movies since the millenium. She's a complete capricious  diva that nobody wants to deal with anymore.

Deneuve was ideal for movies like "Repulsion" or "Belle de Jour", two of my favorite movies; I couldn't imagine any other actress in these movies

Sean Trane wrote: I think the first four on that lists are the betteractresses, but certainly not my faves   Victoria April, Zabou Breitman, Elsa Zylberstein, Agnes Jaoui, Emmanuelle Beart are in my top 5

you probably mean Victoria Abril. the others I don't know, except for Emmanuelle Beart

Jim Garten wrote: BaldJean wrote: "Gorillas in the Mist" is one of the best movies with Weaver of all times; only beaten by her role in "Death and the Maiden". It seems we're both fans of Sigourney, but I cannot believe you haven't mentioned her role in 'The Ice Storm': In my opinion her finest 'proper' acting role (yes, even including "Gorillas in the Mist"). Coincidentally - one of my favorite pictures of her: You & Friede moonlighting as style icons?

the answer is quite simple, Jim: I have never seen the movie
as about us being style icons: I will send you a private mail about that

Most things are. Zardoz was a good laugh for me, and a bit of stomach sickness after seeing too much naked areas of  Sean Connery. Judy Davis was spectacular in Barton Fink and in Naked Lunch. Holly Hunter... I'm not sure if it is her, or the way the Coen Brothers use her as art material, but her perfomance on Raising Arizona should've been rewarded.  Alien is a movie I just don't like because it is too straight as narration, but I can see the work behind, and the fact that it features a woman as the heroe makes it valuable somehow. And let's not forget those talented actresses I plan to include in my meteor  menacing planet earth movie  ...

At leats your list reminded me of that "Whatever happened to baby Jane" movie. And "The day of the locust", though I'm not quite sure why. Death and the maiden is an adaptation from a book of Chilean writter, wich is weird given that 95% of chilean population can barely writte or talk. Uhm.. I do suspect I'll check some intriguing titles of your reply. Also, I'll call sean Connery to yell at him for making a movie psychedelic in underwear...

Regarding Farenheit 451, the book is everything the movie is not. Zardoz... though I can see some appeal in the oddity, it certainly won't go into my "memorable" list.

Edit: I don't mean any offense by this, but that list sounds more like a vintage bondage fetish party poster selection. ¿Where's Holly Hunter, for example? ¿Or Judy Davis?.


Edited by cuncuna - March 15 2008 at 11:26