Bette Davis ALL ABOUT EVE, JEZEBEL, WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?, NOW VOYAGER, THE LITTLE FOXES The average person’s impression of Bette Davis might be rooted in a superficial combination of classic lines and iconography – lines like “Fasten...
Liv Ullmann PERSONA, CRIES & WHISPERS, FACE TO FACE, THE EMIGRANTS, SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE Ullmann’s now-legendary career truly launched with her first collaboration with Ingmar Bergman – 1966’s Persona – and it is with his name that she will be...
1. James Stewart 2. Philip Seymour Hoffman 3. Daniel Day-Lewis 4. Cary Grant 5. Marlon Brando 6. Robert De Niro 7. Jack Nicholson 8. Toshiro Mifune 9. Humphrey Bogart 10. Charlie Chaplin
James Stewart IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE, MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON, VERTIGO, REAR WINDOW, THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE, HARVEY, THE MAN FROM LARAMIE, THE NAKED SPUR Jimmy Stewart proves his worthiness to be on this list every Christmas....
Philip Seymour Hoffman THE MASTER, CAPOTE, HAPPINESS, MAGNOLIA, DOUBT, CHARLIE WILSON’S WAR, A MOST WANTED MAN, STATE AND MAIN If, in one-hundred years, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science is the way cinephiles measure the films of yesterday...
Daniel Day-Lewis MY LEFT FOOT, THERE WILL BE BLOOD, IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS, GANGS OF NEW YORK, LINCOLN The term “method acting” has become cynical shorthand, a phrase actors use when (not-so) quietly...