Friday, August 24, 2007

Late Homework 3: Ed's Performances Redux

Well, I can't resist! As you guys have chosen five men and five women for each decade, I figured I'd better add to my measly three! So here is a recap of my performance picks from the 2000s and the 1990s with the choices upped to five apiece. My '80s performances will appear with my top ten list in a few days' time.

2000s:

Men:

Michael Douglas in Wonder Boys (2000)
Anderson Ballesteros in Our Lady of the Assassins (2000)
Olivier Gourmet in Le Fils (2002)
Morgan Marinne in Le Fils (2002)
Maurice Bénichou in Caché (2005)

Women:

Charlotte Rampling in Under the Sand (2000)
Laura Elena Harring in Mulholland Drive (2001)
Naomi Watts in Mulholland Drive (2001)
Isabelle Huppert in The Piano Teacher (2001)
Julie Delpy in Before Sunset (2004)

1990s:

Men:

Gérard Depardieu in Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
Al Pacino in Dick Tracy (1990)
Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven (1992)
Sean Penn in Carlito's Way (1993)
Robert Forster in Jackie Brown (1997)

Women:

Jodie Foster in The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Judy Davis in Husbands and Wives (1992)
Meryl Streep in The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
Judi Dench in Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Julia Roberts in Notting Hill (1999)

1 comments:

Sam Goldberg said...

Yeah Sean Penn in "Carlito's Way"!