Top 5 Favorite Actors & Actresses.

Geesh, I need to watch some of these films, NOW.

Madhabi Mukherjee (Charulata)
Takamine Hideko (Floating Clouds)
Jutta Hoffmann (Her Third)
Susan Hayward (I Can Get It for You Wholesale)
Taraneh Alidoosti (Fireworks Wednesday)
Li Lili (Daybreak)
María Félix (Doña Bárbara)

Uehara Ken (Repast)
Mun Seong-kun (The Road to the Racetrack)
Henry Fonda (The Ox-Bow Incident)
Bruno Todeschini (Son frère)
Marcello Mastroianni (Family Diary)
Lee Kang-sheng (What Time Is it There?)
Om Puri (Half Truth)

this is my do over:

Klaus Kinski
Toshiro Mifune
Jack Lemmon
Ruan Lingyu
Jeanne Moreau

won me over:
Jane Horrocks (life is sweet)
Andy Griffith (a face in the crowd)

Actors
Marlon Brando
Toshiro Mifune
Robert Mitchum
Buster Keaton
Claude Rains

Actresses
Marlene Dietrich
Barbara Stanwyck
Anna Karina
Bette Davis
Ellen Burstyn

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Actresses
Toni Collette
Samantha Morton
Isabelle Huppert
Viola Davis
Tilda Swinton

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Actors
Ryan Gosling
Michael Shannon
Jeffrey Wright
Steve Buscemi
Michael Fassbender

Gloria Grahame
Joan Bennett
Charlotte Rampling
Romy Schneider
Tina Aumont

and

Ben Gazzara
Howard Vernon
Christopher Walken
Rudolf Hrušínský
Warren Oates

Honorable Mentions: Stephane Audran, Peter Falk, Robert Mitchum, Charles Laughton, Charles Hawtrey, Marushka Detmers, Sophie Marceau, Irene Papas, Ellie Lambeti, Joan Hackett, Mimsy Farmer, Klaus Kinski, Joan Fontaine, Tom Bell, Patrick Dewaere, Harry Dean Stanton, Günter Lamprecht, Hanna Schygulla, Maria Schneider …

Daniel Day-Lewis
Marlon Brando
Robert DeNiro
Sean Penn
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Meryl Streep
Cate Blanchet
Emily Watson
Kate Winslet
Julianne Moore

Wait! i forgot Louise Brooks, with the greatest of all performances in Pandora’s Box. From that time I was also very taken with Janet Gaynor in Street Angel (as well as Sunrise). And i love Dietrich in the Sternberg classics. Too many actresses to limit to 5. Takemine Hideko another, Anna Karina, Hara Setsuko, Irene Jacob, Madhabi Mukherjee… No takers for Katharine Hepburn? She won me over in Holiday. Apursansar has done a grand job as usual with promoting world cinema goodies. I really must see Crime and Punishment. And ah yes, Arsaib: Li Lili in Daybreak.

Where’s the love here for Fred Astaire ? Has Charlie Chaplin’s star really fallen so much?

I forgot Emily Watson and Leslie Cheung … and Vincent Gallo …

Ha, i like TwodeadMagpies’ unexpected choices i need to give more attention. Ha, Matti Pellonpää!

No love for Alec Guinness? Maybe not the most grand and dramatic presence, instead a great chameleon, maybe Britain’s finest film actor? Lean used him as an Arab and an Indian and of course he was in Star Wars but i don’t think such things should really be held against him.

For one off performances……..
1. Birgit Minichmayr, Everyone Else
2. Liz Taylor, Suddenly Last Summer
3. Janine Duvitski, Diane
4. Elodie Bouchez, Les Roseuax Sauvages
5. Émilie Dequenne, Rosetta

1.Jacques Nolot, Before I Forget
2. Alfredo Castro, Tony Manero
3. Michael Gambon, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
4. Olaf Lubaszenko, Short Film About Killing
5. Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

For overall consistancy and versatility
1.Isabelle Huppert
2.Kathy Burke
3.Barbara Sukowa
4.Charlotte Rampling
5.Hind Rostom

1.Alain Delon
2.Warren Oates
3.River Phoenix
4.Gary Oldman
5. and yes Terry-Thomas!!

Tony Leung Chiu-wai for 2046

Sean Penn for The Thin Red Line

Jack Nicholson for The Departed

John Lurie for Down By Law

Joe Pesci for Goodfellas

Vittorio Gassman for Il Sorpasso

Silvana Mangano – hotness itself – Oedipus Rex
Leopoldina Bălănuţă (Stone Wedding)
Lyda Borelli (Lyrical Nitrate, Malombra)
Lucía Bosé (Nocturno 29)
Elit Iscan (Times and Winds, My Only Sunshine)
Michiyo Aratama (Kwaidan)
Gunnel Lindblom – Loving couples

Marcel Iureş – i am more accustomed to his irreplaceable presence in theatre, not movies, but let’s just say The Oak
Gheorghe Dinică (Filantropica, De ce bat clopotele, Mitică?)
Răzvan Vasilescu – one the looniest and toughest acts in Romanian cinema – Too Late
György Cserhalmi (omg!!!) – Electra, My Love
Lou Castel (Fists in the Pocket)
Eiji Okada (The Face of another)
Claudiu Bleonţ – for Paso Doble

Whoa!!!! There is so much good actors and actresses, but for me they are may top 5….

Actresses:

1. Isabelle Huppert – The Piano Teacher
2. Maggie Cheung – In the Mood for Love
3. Gong Li – Raise the Red Lantern
4. Juliet Binouche – Three colors: Blue
5. Naomi Watts – Mulholland Drive

Actors:

1. Tony Leung – Happy Together
2.Leslie Cheung – Happy Together, Farewell my Concubine
3. Benicio Del Torro – 21 Grams
4. Sean Penn – 21 Grams
5. Jim Carry – Eternal Sunshine

Whoa!!!! There is so much good actors and actresses, but for me they are may top 5….

Actresses:

1. Isabelle Huppert – The Piano Teacher
2. Maggie Cheung – In the Mood for Love
3. Gong Li – Raise the Red Lantern
4. Juliet Binouche – Three colors: Blue
5. Naomi Watts – Mulholland Drive

Actors:

1. Tony Leung – Happy Together
2.Leslie Cheung – Happy Together, Farewell my Concubine
3. Benicio Del Torro – 21 Grams
4. Sean Penn – 21 Grams
5. Jim Carry – Eternal Sunshine

Actresses :
1. Greta Garbo
2. Isabelle Adjani
3. Sandrine Bonnaire
4. Isabelle Huppert
5. Monica Vitti
(6. Kate Winslet, Cate Blanchett and Julianne Moore)

Actors :
1. Robert DeNiro
2. Marlon Brando
3. Humphrey Bogart
4. Michael Fassbender
5. Javier Bardem
(6. Sean Penn, Al Pacino, Ryan Gosling, Heath Ledger and Tom Hardy)

My list is based on current actors/actresses…

Ryan Gosling
Javier Bardem
Phillip Seymour-Hoffman
Daniel Day-Lewis
George Clooney

Kate Winslett
Julianne Moore
Michele Williams
Mellissa Leo
Julliet Binoche

I tried. I couldn’t do it…

oh god. i forgot so many. scrap my list. but add Răzvan Vasilescu to it anyway.

I’m really sorry, I spotted this earlier today, vaguely remembered it as being a top ten thread, and drafted the lists accordingly. However, I can now see that it’s actually a top five, and I can’t really narrow it down, so…..

Denis Lavant – Beau travail
Gérard Depardieu – Under the Sun of Satan
Gene Hackman – The Conversation
Bob Hoskins – Mona Lisa
Jack Nicholson – The Passenger

Isaach de Bankolé – Casa de Lava
Michel Piccoli – Milou en mai
Tony Leung Chiu Wai – In the Mood for Love
Vincent Gallo – Buffalo ’66
Tadanobu Asano – Vital

…………………………..

Brigitte Mira – Mother Küsters’ Trip to Heaven
Ayako Wakao – The Red Angel
Maggie Cheung – Irma Vep
Juliette Binoche – Three Colors: Blue
Anna Karina – La religieuse

Bryce Dallas Howard – The Village
Emily Watson – Breaking the Waves
Maria Schneider – The Passenger
Setsuko Hara – Late Spring
Samantha Morton – Code 46

#6
Sylvie Testud Les Blessures assassines

Actors
1. Michael Shannon (The Runaways)
2. Michael Mandel (Trip Out)
3. Michael Fassbender (Hunger)
4. Andrew Bujalski (Sorry, Thanks)
5. Joe Swanberg (Nights and Weekends)

Actresses
1. Elle Fanning (Phoebe in Wonderland)
2. Dakota Fanning (Uptown Girls)
3. Saoirse Ronan (Atonement)
4. Chloe Grace Moretz (Let Me In)
5. Juno Temple (Cracks)

I’m sorry If my list is a little less highbrow than everyone else’s, at least in the actress category.

Isabelle Huppert
Louise Brooks
Lillian Gish
Geraldine Chaplin
Glenda Jackson

Warren Oates
Jack Lemon
Buster Keaton
Oliver Reed
Dirk Bogarde

Gary Oldman (Bram Stoker’s Dracula)
Alec Guinness (Lawrence of Arabia)
Henry Fonda (The Grapes of Wrath)
Montgomery Clift (A Place in the Sun)
Tatsuya Nakadai (The Human Condition Trilogy)

Isabelle Hupert (The Piano Teacher)
Mia Farrow (Rosemary’s Baby)
Gong Li (Raise the Red Lantern)
Chloe Sevigny (Boys Don’t Cry)
Cate Blanchett (Coffe and Cigarettes)

Actresses:
01 Emmanuelle Béart
02 Geneviève Bujold
03 Monica Vitti
04 Maggie Cheung
05 Theresa Russell
06 Iréne Jacob
07 Yakaterina Golubeva
08 Mariko Okada
09 Joan Fontaine
10 Naomi Watts

Actors:
01 Tony Leung Chiu-wai
02 Jean-Louis Trintignant
03 Harry Dean Stanton
04 Denis Lavant
05 Alex Descas
06 Michael Caine
07 Max von Sydow
08 Anthony Wong
09 Anatoly Solonitsyn
10 Keith Carradine

Al Pacino, The Godfather Part II
Jean Pierre Leaud,The Mother and the Whore
Peter Falk, A Woman under the Influence
Tony Leung Chiu Wai – In the Mood for Love
Robert De Niro, Taxi Driver

Liv Ullman, Scenes from a Marriage
Monica Vitti, L’Eclisse
Diane Keaton, Annie Hall
Kate Winslet, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Faye Wong, Chungking Express

There are so many more amazing actors/actresses, but these are my current favorites:

Gena Rowlands, Faces
Setsuko Hara, Late Spring
Liv Ullman, Shame
Ana Torrent, Spirit of the Beehive
Ellen Burstyn, King of Marvin Gardens

Max von Sydow, Winter Light
Tatsuya Nakadai, The Human Condition
Warren Oates, Cockfighter
Richard Widmark, Night and the City
Bruno Ganz, Wings of Desire

David Bowie (THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH)
Tatsuya Nakadai (RAN)
Robert De Niro (TAXI DRIVER)
James Dean (REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE)
Dustin Hoffman (STRAW DOGS)

Soledad Miranda (EUGENIE DE SADE, VAMPYROS LESBOS, & SHE KILLED IN ECSTASY)
Nastassja Kinski (CAT PEOPLE)
Gena Rowlands (A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE)
Jessica Harper (SUSPIRIA)
Lina Romay (DORIANA GREY)

Gena Rowlands
Liv Ullmann
Isabelle Huppert
Shima Iwashita
Mariko Okada

Tatsuya Nakadai
Chisû Ryû
Buster Keaton
Anatoli Solonitsyn
Toshirô Mifune