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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

2005 📽️ Damian Lewis - Keane Fatoumata Coulibaly - Moolaadé Juliette Binoche - Caché Chiwetel Ejiofor - Four Brothers Zhang Ziyi - 2046 Joan Allen - Yes Zhao Tao - The World Christian Bale - The New World Kurt Russell - Sky High Anna Faris - Just Friends Yuen Qiu - Kung Fu Hustle Michel Côté - CRAZY

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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

1994 📽️ Linda Fiorentino - The Last Seduction Paul Newman - Nobody’s Fool Irène Jacob - Three Colours: Red Meg Tilly - Body Snatchers Sihung Lung - Eat Drink Man Woman Martin Landau - Ed Wood Bruce Willis - Pulp Fiction Dennis Haysbert - Suture Kim Basinger - Prêt-à-Porter John Turturro - Quiz Show

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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

1952 📽️ Takashi Shimura - Ikiru Glenn Ford - Affair in Trinidad Robert Mitchum - The Lusty Men Gary Cooper - High Noon Aldo Fabrizi - Flowers of St. Francis Donald O’Connor - Singin’ in the Rain Carlo Battisti - Umberto D. Mary Welch - Park Row Kirk Douglas & Lana Turner - The Bad and the Beautiful

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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yann Gael - 📽️ Saloum (Jean Luc Herbulot, 2022) The Congolese director and Cameroonian leading man united for a Senegal-set movie that defies genre. It’s a crime-horror-thriller-western whose tone keeps shifting. Gael grounds it all as the revenge-bound former child soldier leading the central trio.

Yann Gael as Chaka and Evelyne Ily Juhen as Awa in the film Saloum.

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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

1969 📽️ Jean-Louis Trintignant & Irene Papas - Z Sofiko Chiaureli - Color of Pomegranates Robert Ryan - The Wild Bunch Maggie Smith - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Jason Robards - Once Upon a Time in the West Dustin Hoffman - Midnight Cowboy Jane Fonda & Gig Young - They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?

Sofiko Chiaureli in The Color of Pomegranates

Maggie Smith in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ginger Rogers - 📽️ Gold Diggers of 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy, 1933) The film’s principal ladies are Aline MacMahon, Ruby Keeler, and the great Joan Blondell—and they rock. But Rogers is here briefly as the conceited Fay and you can feel her destined starpower. Sure enough, she becomes a star the next year.

Ginger Rogers as Fay Fortune in the film Gold Diggers of 1933.

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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

1998 📽️ Ian McKellen - Gods and Monsters Nick Nolte - Affliction Don Cheadle - Out of Sight Christina Ricci - Buffalo ‘66 Christina Ricci - The Opposite of Sex Kimberly Elise - Beloved Tony Leung - Flowers of Shanghai Elias Koteas - The Thin Red Line Hiroyuki Sanada - Ring Takeshi Kitano - Fireworks

Isaiah Washington and Don Cheadle in Out of Sight

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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Dean Martin - 📽️ Some Cane Running (Vincente Minnelli, 1958) As Bama Dillert, Martin gives a contender for his best performance while Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Martha Hyer, and Arthur Kennedy do the same. Martin is the alcoholic gambler, and gets the movie’s huge emotional payoff. #filmsky

Dean Martin as Bama Dillert in the film Some Came Running.

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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

1970 📽️ Jack Nicholson & Karen Black - Five Easy Pieces Calvin Lockhart - Cotton Comes to Harlem Bud Cort - Brewster McCloud Peter Boyle - Joe Romy Schneider - The Swimming Pool Ben Gazzara & Peter Falk - Husbands Carrie Snodgress - Diary of a Mad Housewife Jason Robards - The Ballad of Cable Hogue

Jack Nicholson and Karen Black in Five Easy Pieces

Calvin Lockhart in Cotton Comes to Harlem

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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

2023 📽️ Hong Chau - Showing Up Alma Pöysti - Fallen Leaves Ben Whishaw - Passages Kōji Yakusho - Perfect Days Cillian Murphy - Oppenheimer Hugo Weaving - The Royal Hotel Glenn Howerton - BlackBerry Shah Rukh Khan - Jawan Juliette Binoche - The Taste of Things Teyonah Parris - They Cloned Tyrone

Ben Whishaw and Franz Rogowski in Passages

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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Raúl Juliá - 📽️ Eyes of Laura Mars (Irvin Kershner, 1983) This John Carpenter mystery script presents Faye Dunaway with a host of suspects and ace scene partners: Tommy Lee Jones, Brad Dourif, René Aubrrjonois. But Juliá is special as her depressed, drunk ex. He could be so magnetic while tragic.

Raúl Juliá as Michael Reisler leans while seated on a couch in a suit and tie. The film is Eyes of Laura Mars.

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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

1979 📽️ Geraldine Chaplin - Remember My Name John Heard - Chilly Scenes of Winter Brad Dourif - Wise Blood Christopher Plummer - The Silent Partner Roy Scheider - All That Jazz Charles Grodin - Real Life Lee Remick - The Europeans Talia Shire - Old Boyfriends Sigourney Weaver & Ian Holm - Alien

Christopher Plummer in The Silent Partner

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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Stephen Dillane - 📽️ King Arthur (Antoine Fuqua, 2004) Fuqua’s movie has its fans but is unsuccessful in many regards. But the ensemble is commendable, from Stellan Skarsgård’s long-bearded Saxon villain to Dillane’s stoic warrior Merlin. He’s often untapped for badass character roles. #filmsky

Stephen Dillane as Merlin shouts in the film King Arthur.

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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

1980 📽️ Catherine Deneuve - The Last Metro Nathalie Baye - Every Man for Himself Gena Rowlands - Gloria Lesley Manville & Lindsay Duncan - Grown-Ups John Hurt - The Elephant Man Robert De Niro - Raging Bull Tatsuya Nakadai - Kagemusha Rodney Dangerfield - Caddyshack Yaphet Kotto - Brubaker #filmsky

Lindsay Duncan and Lesley Manville in Grown-Ups

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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

2009 📽️ Joaquin Phoenix & Vinessa Shaw - Two Lovers Kim Ok-bin - Thirst Abbie Cornish - Bright Star Alex Descas - 35 Rhums Michael Stuhlbarg - A Serious Man Kirin Kiki - Still Walking Liam Cunningham - Hunger Matt Damon - The Informant! María Onetto - The Headless Woman Stephen McHattie - Pontypool

Vinessa Shaw and Joaquin Phoenix in Two Lovers

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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

1959 📽️ Cary Grant & Eva Marie Saint & James Mason - North by Northwest Lana Turner - Imitation of Life James Shigeta - The Crimson Kimono Machiko Kyō - Floating Weeds Simone Signoret - Room at the Top Burl Ives - Day of the Outlaw Claire Maurier - The 400 Blows John Wayne & Dean Martin - Rio Bravo

Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, and James Mason in North by Northwest

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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Leslie Mann - 📽️ Funny People (Judd Apatow, 2009) Mann shone doing a modern Gatsby love triangle routine with a top form Adam Sandler and Eric Bana. The role starts out comedic then, like many an Apatow movie, takes a lengthy turn for the dramatic while showcasing Mann’s warm naturalism. #filmsky

Leslie Mann as Laura in the film Funny People.

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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

1990 📽️ Danny Glover - To Sleep with Anger Adrienne Shelly - The Unbelievable Truth John Hurt - The Field Laura Dern - Wild at Heart Laurence Fishburne - King of New York Victoria Abril - Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! Nick Nolte - Q & A Andy Lau - A Moment of Romance Madeleine Stowe - The Two Jakes

Adrienne Shelly in The Unbelievable Truth

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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Clifton Powell - 📽️ Bones (Ernest R. Dickerson, 2001) The underrated actor (Ray, Menace II Society, Deep Cover) has a strangely tender villainous role in Dickerson’s fascinating pulp horror movie. Starring Snoop Dogg, Pam Grier, and Bianca Lawson, Bones has some fun style to recommend. #filmsky

Clifton Powell as Jeremiah Peet peers through glasses in the film Bones.

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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

1939 📽️ Jean Arthur/Cary Grant - Only Angels Have Wings Henry Fonda - Young Mr. Lincoln Ingrid Bergman - A Woman’s Face Rosalind Russell - The Women Greta Garbo - Ninotchka Andy Devine/Louise Platt - Stagecoach Nikolai Chersakov - Alexander Nevsky Shōtarō Hanayagi - Story of the Last Chrysanthemums

Cary Grant and Jean Arthur in Only Angels Have Wings

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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Omar Sharif - 📽️ Hidalgo (Joe Johnston, 2004) This largely forgotten Arabian horse racing biography starring Viggo Mortensen has some passionate defenders. It also has Sharif’s last Hollywood role of note, granting commanding gravitas to his scenes opposite Mortensen as a powerful sheikh. #filmsky

Omar Sharif as Sheikh Riyadh in the film Hidalgo.

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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

1983 📽️ Matt Dillon & Mickey Rourke - Rumble Fish Cher & Meryl Streep - Silkwood Burt Lancaster - Local Hero Rosanna Arquette - Baby It’s You Ed Harris - The Right Stuff Erwin Leder - Angst Debra Winger - Terms of Endearment Linda Griffiths - Lianna Sammo Hung - Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain

Matt Dillon and Mickey Rourke in Rumble Fish

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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

1948 📽️ Henry Fonda - Fort Apache Richard Attenborough - Brighton Rock John Dall - Rope Dots Johnson - Paisan Moira Shearer - The Red Shoes Toshirō Mifune - Drunken Angel Mitsuko Mito - Woman Jean Arthur - A Foreign Affair Edward G. Robinson - Key Largo Humphrey Bogart - Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Dots Johnson and Alfonsino Pasca in Paisan

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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Parker Posey - 📽️ Clockwatchers (Jill Sprecher, 1998) The chemistry among the central quartet here - Posey, Toni Collette, Alanna Ubach, and Lisa Kudrow - really makes it one of the unheralded ‘90s comedies. Posey shines bitterly in one of few indies with writing worthy of her performance. #filmsky

Parker Posey as Margaret Burrell in the film Clockwatchers.

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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Danny DeVito - 📽️ Tin Men (Barry Levinson, 1987) A movie barely mentioned at all anymore, Tin Men is one of the peaks for DeVito as a leading man. Bitter and caustic per his signature persona, he gets all the biggest laughs in a feud with Richard Dreyfuss. Barbara Hershey and John Mahoney shine too.

Danny DeVito as Ernest Tilley smashes a car window in the film Tin Men.

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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Powers Boothe - 📽️ Southern Comfort (Walter Hill, 1981) As shell-shocked stick in the mud to contrast Keith Carradine’s smirking survivor, Boothe brings a lot of personality to a stoic protagonist. It’s one of his few film leads, and the simmering builds to a hell of an explosive climax. #filmsky

Powers Boothe as Corporal Charles Hardin in the film Southern Comfort.

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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

1987 📽️ Christine Lahti - Housekeeping Kōji Yakusho - Tampopo Powers Boothe - Extreme Prejudice Yves Montand - Jean de Florette Hugh Grant - Maurice David Strathairn - Matewan Cher - Moonstruck Anjelica Huston - The Dead Juliette Binoche - Rendez-vous Miguel Ferrer - RoboCop Ed Harris - Walker

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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

2025 📽️ Amanda Seyfried - Seven Veils Nina Hoss - Hedda Rose Byrne - If I Had Legs I’d Kick You Keke Palmer - One of Them Days Wagner Moura - The Secret Agent Lee Byung-hun - No Other Choice Ethan Hawke - Blue Moon Michael Angelo Covino - Splitsville Amanda Seyfried - The Testament of Ann Lee

Rose Byrne in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

1950 📽️ Richard Widmark - Night and the City Ingrid Bergman - Stromboli Ward Bond - Wagon Master Gloria Grahame - In a Lonely Place Anna Magnani - L’Amore George Sanders & Bette Davis - All About Eve Nancy Olson - Sunset Boulevard John Garfield - The Breaking Point James Stewart - Winchester ‘73

Chuck Hayward and Ward Bond in Wagon Master

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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Matthew Macfadyen - 📽️ Anna Karenina (Joe Wright, 2012) Wright’s Tolstoy adaptation has a contender for the most stacked ensemble of its decade. Macfadyen as Stiva opens the film, and his blustering demeanour is key to immersing you in the setting. He’s tremendous with Domhnall Gleeson. #filmsky

Matthew Macfadyen as Prince Stepan Arkadyevich Oblonsky in the film Anna Karenina.

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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

1981 📽️ John Heard - Cutter’s Way Keith Carradine - Southern Comfort Stacy Keach - Roadgames Karen Allen - Raiders of the Lost Ark Zoë Lund - Ms 45 John Travolta - Blow Out Frankie Faison - Permanent Vacation Bruce Spence - Mad Max 2 Tuesday Weld - Thief Ben Gazzara & Colleen Camp - They All Laughed

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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Tim Curry - 📽️ The Shout (Jerzy Skolimowski, 1978) This is a unique psychological thriller starring John Hurt, Susannah York, and Alan Bates as a man with a fatal yell. Curry charms in the frame story. RIP to a Legend who only gave us lovely performances nobody else would do similarly. #filmsky

Tim Curry as Robert Graves in the film The Shout.

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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

1960 📽️ Robert Mitchum - Home from the Hill Max Von Sydow - The Virgin Spring Sharmila Tagore - The World of Apu Robert Vaughn - The Magnificent Seven Anthony Perkins - Psycho Machiko Kyō - The Wandering Princess Shirley MacLaine - The Apartment Peter Ustinov - Spartacus John Mills - Tunes of Glory

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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Kevin J. O’Connor - 📽️ Deep Rising (Stephen Sommers, 1998) It’s a divisive choice, but I’m a sucker for O’Connor in general and in this fun boat creature feature. He’s the ideal version of the screw-up sidekick alongside greats Wes Studi, Famke Janssen, Cliff Curtis, and the late Treat Williams.

Kevin J. O’Connor as Joey Pantucci in the film Deep Rising.

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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Jeffrey Wright - 📽️ Cadillac Records (Darnell Martin, 2008) A rare great and authentic true story movie about music, Cadillac Records is underrated in general, and Wright sizzles starring as Muddy Waters. He stands out even more than Eamonn Walker’s Howlin’ Wolf and Beyoncé’s Etta James. #filmsky

Jeffrey Wright as Muddy Waters wears a suit and plays guitar on an orange couch in the film Cadillac Records.

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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

2010 📽️ Lesley Manville & Ruth Sheen - Another Year Isabelle Huppert - White Material Riz Ahmed - Four Lions Amanda Peet - Please Give Stephen Dorff - Somewhere Kim Hye-ja - Mother Olivia Williams - The Ghost Writer Tahar Rahim - A Prophet Ken Watanabe - Inception John Hawkes - Winter’s Bone 🎥

Lesley Manville and Ruth Sheen in Another Year

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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Wes Studi - 📽️ A Love Song (Max Walker-Silverman, 2022) A romantic drama between character actor stalwarts Studi and Dale Dickey as widowed childhood friends was completely unexpected. It’s also completely charming, with Studi singing and cracking jokes throughout one of his best showcases ever.

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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Halle Berry - 📽️ B.A.P.S. (Robert Townsend, 1997) Berry’s rise to stardom included this divisive bomb, but the bad reviews she got make no sense today. Berry (like Natalie Desselle) does everything possible to elevate flawed material and Townsend satire, including an extended Carol Burnett routine.

Halle Berry as Nisi beams with gold teeth in the film B.A.P.S.

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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

1957 📽️ Alec Guinness - Bridge on the River Kwai Barbara Stanwyck - Forty Guns Burt Lancaster & Tony Curtis - Sweet Smell of Success Setsuko Hara - Tokyo Twilight Michael Redgrave - Time Without Pity E.G. Marshall - 12 Angry Men Ingrid Bergman - Elena & Her Men Ruby Dee - Edge of the City #filmsky

Alec Guinness in The Bridge on the River Kwai

Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis in Sweet Smell of Success

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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

1975 📽️ Gene Hackman - Night Moves Rachel Roberts - Picnic at Hanging Rock Charles Durning - Dog Day Afternoon Carol Kane - Hester Street Delphine Seyrig - India Song James Coburn - Hard Times Julie Christie & Lee Grant - Shampoo Margarita Terekhova - Mirror Ronee Blakley & Karen Black - Nashville

Rachel Roberts in Picnic at Hanging Rock

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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

2002 📽️ Barry Pepper - 25th Hour Javier Cámara - Talk to Her Isabelle Huppert - The Piano Teacher Emily Mortimer - Lovely & Amazing Timothy Spall - All or Nothing Viola Davis - Solaris Campbell Scott - Roger Dodger Maribel Verdu - Y tu mamá tambien Edie Falco & Angela Bassett - Sunshine State

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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

2000 📽️ Denis Lavant - Beau Travail Don Cheadle - Traffic Laura Linney & Mark Ruffalo - You Can Count on Me Song Kang-ho - Joint Security Area David Paymer - State and Main Sandra Bullock - 28 Days Rhys Ifans - Little Nicky Jeffrey Wright - Shaft Gillian Anderson & Laura Linney - The House of Mirth

Laura Linney and Mark Ruffalo in You Can Count on Me

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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

1932 📽️ Miriam Hopkins & Kay Francis - Trouble in Paradise Greta Garbo - Grand Hotel Lilian Bond - The Old Dark House Charles Laughton - Island of Lost Souls Kay Francis - Jewel Robbery Carole Lombard - Virtue Eugene Pallette - Wild Girl Anna May Wong & Marlene Dietrich - Shanghai Express #filmsky

Miriam Hopkins and Kay Francis in Trouble in Paradise

Charles Laughton in Island of Lost Souls

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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Gordon Pinsent - 📽️ Away from Her (Sarah Polley, 2007) Polley’s masterful drama nearly won Julie Christie a second Oscar for her depiction of Alzheimer’s. But Pinsent as the even larger role is equally crucial to the film’s heartbreaking impact, and he was one of Canada’s most unheralded talents.

Gordon Pinsent as Grant in the film Away from Her.

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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

1985 📽️ Madeline Kahn - Clue Laura Dern - Smooth Talk Tatsuya Nakadai - Ran Keith Carradine - Trouble in Mind Tsai Chin - Taipei Story Jonathan Pryce - Brazil M. Emmet Walsh - Blood Simple Sandy McLeod - Variety Maggie Smith - A Private Function John Hurt - The Hit Jackie Chan - Police Story

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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Joe Pantoliano - 📽️ Bound (Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski, 1996) The Wachowskis’ wonderful queer erotic crime thriller is one of the best debuts you’ll ever find. Key to its success is Pantoliano with a huge role as the volatile, slippery villain Caesar. He’s equally detestable and mesmerizing.

Joe Pantoliano as Caesar stands in a bathroom shirtless, wrapped in a towel around his waist, and holding another towel. The film is Bound.

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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Dennis Haysbert - 📽️ Suture (Scott McGehee and David Siegel, 1994) The great Haysbert has led too few movies. His singular and infectious voice makes him a chilling noir protagonist in this esoteric mistaken identity story. He plays memory loss and will generally keep you guessing what’s going on.

Dennis Haysbert as Clay Arlington wears an eyepatch in the film Suture.

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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Isabelle Huppert - 📽️ Story of Women (Claude Chabrol, 1988) Most of Chabrol’s films should be better-known today than they are, and this is one of the finest. Huppert’s role as a WWII-era abortionist in nazi-occupied France contends as the best of her dozens of powerhouse performances. #filmsky

Isabelle Huppert as Marie Latour tears up in the film Story of Women.

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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

2021 📽️ Dev Patel - The Green Knight Renate Reinsve - The Worst Person in the World Katherine Waterston - The World to Come Mike Faist - West Side Story Richard Jenkins - The Humans Léa Seydoux - France Timothy Spall - Spencer Paula Beer - Undine Frankie Faison - The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain

Renate Reinsve in The Worst Person in the World

Katherine Waterston in The World to Come

Ansel Elgort and Mike Faist in West Side Story

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Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Josh Hartnett - 📽️ The Black Dahlia (Brian De Palma, 2006) Hartnett is a talent who was oft wrongly utilized in his heyday. But a hardboiled noir lead for a great director was such a good fit, and the solid film was underrated. He and Aaron Eckhart sound like detectives who emerged from the ‘50s.

Josh Hartnett as Detective Dwight Bleichert A.K.A. Bucky in the film The Black Dahlia.

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