Great Performances

By: Ally the Manic Listmaker

These actors created inhuman performances!

These are not necessarily in any particular order. They are all great performances.

Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet
Wendy Hiller in Pygmalion
Daniel Day-Lewis in Gangs of New York
Magaly Solier in The Milk of Sorrow
Irène Jacob in The Double Life of Veronique
Isabelle Huppert in The Piano Teacher
Harvey Keitel in Smoke
Romane Bohringer in Les nuits fauves/Savage Nights
Peter Lorre in M
Christoph Waltz in Inglourious Basterds
Bette Davis in All About Eve
Gloria Swanson in Sunset Blvd.
Jean Reno in Leon – The Professional
Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr in The Night of the Iguana
Sandrine Bonnaire in Jeanne La Pucelle II: The Prisons
Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs
Margit Carstensen in The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
Nastassja Kinski in Tess
Cary Grant in An Affair to Remember
Gabrielle Rose in Speaking Parts
Arsinee Khanjian in Adoration
Faye Dunaway in Network
Isabelle Adjani in Possession
Corinne Marchand in Cleo From 5 to 7
Carole Lombard in Supernatural
Brigitte Fossey in Forbidden Games
James Mason in Bigger Than Life
Bill Murray in What About Bob?
Charlotte Gainsbourg in Antichrist
Marion Cotillard in La Vie en Rose

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Blue Velvet

David Lynch
02

Pygmalion

Anthony Asquith
03

Gangs of New York

Martin Scorsese
04

The Milk of Sorrow

Claudia Llosa
05

The Double Life of Véronique

Krzysztof Kieślowski
06

The Piano Teacher

Michael Haneke
07

Smoke

Wayne Wang
08

Savage Nights

Cyril Collard
09

M

Fritz Lang
10

Inglourious Basterds

Quentin Tarantino
11

All About Eve

Joseph L. Mankiewicz
12

Sunset Blvd.

Billy Wilder
13

The Night of the Iguana

John Huston
14

Léon: The Professional

Luc Besson
15

Jeanne la Pucelle II: The Prisons

Jacques Rivette
16

The Silence of the Lambs

Jonathan Demme
17

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
18

Tess

Roman Polanski
19

An Affair to Remember

Leo McCarey
20

Speaking Parts

Atom Egoyan
21

Adoration

Atom Egoyan
22

Network

Sidney Lumet
23

Possession

Andrzej Żuławski
24

Cléo from 5 to 7

Agnès Varda
25

Supernatural

Victor Halperin
26

Forbidden Games

René Clément
27

Bigger Than Life

Nicholas Ray
28

What About Bob?

Frank Oz
29

Antichrist

Lars von Trier
30

La vie en rose

Olivier Dahan

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Luka Knezevic

24Nov09

If you're looking for some utterly inhuman performances, I believe that at least one Bergman film (e.g. Cries an Whispers) should be included... but I'm not really sure if it fits the criteria for your selection.

Ally the Manic Listmaker

23Nov09

Hi Robert, I was thinking more of Jean Reno's performance in Leon: The Professional. He was amazing in that! I'll include a chart of performances when I'm finished with this list.

Robert W Peabody III

23Nov09

Natalie Portman in _The Professional_ made that film. How about Nicole Kidman in _Dogville_ and two of the greatest performances Charlize Theron in _Monster_ (2003) & Patty Duke in _The Miracle Worker_ Btw, I have to say how very much your pic looks like Irène Jacob in Kieslowski’s _Red_…. lol

Ally the Manic Listmaker

22Nov09

I'm not done with the list yet you guys, but thank you for the comments so far. Jazzy I wanted to turn off The Piano Teacher, yet Huppert's performance was so astounding. I think Story of Women was the third Huppert film I saw. I was also mesmerized by it. Lorna, there is a great Jonathan Rosenbaum review on The Silent of the Lambs that you can read on his site. Basically he agrees that the film is not that great. However, it's a personal favorite! :)