Craig back with a new Take Three.
Today: Amanda Plummer
Amanda Plummer photograph from Jeannick Gravelines Photographe
Take One: No film without her
There are certain characters who, when they appear on screen and begin adding their particular slant, I know I'll want to see more of. Sometimes the filmmakers oblige with this. Sometimes they don't. Personally, I'm thinking Radha Mitchell in Finding Neverland (who I looked at here), Anna Faris in Lost in Translation, Jayne Eastwood in Dawn of the Dead (2004) and the like. We all have certain types we want more from.
More often than not, they're played by great supporting/character actors, doing what they do best: stealing the film... if actually given the chance. That's how I felt about Plummer as boiler-suited cleaner Laurie in Isabel Coixet's My Life Without Me (2003). This isn't to dismiss Sarah Polley's fine central performance as Ann, but something...
Today: Amanda Plummer
Amanda Plummer photograph from Jeannick Gravelines Photographe
Take One: No film without her
There are certain characters who, when they appear on screen and begin adding their particular slant, I know I'll want to see more of. Sometimes the filmmakers oblige with this. Sometimes they don't. Personally, I'm thinking Radha Mitchell in Finding Neverland (who I looked at here), Anna Faris in Lost in Translation, Jayne Eastwood in Dawn of the Dead (2004) and the like. We all have certain types we want more from.
More often than not, they're played by great supporting/character actors, doing what they do best: stealing the film... if actually given the chance. That's how I felt about Plummer as boiler-suited cleaner Laurie in Isabel Coixet's My Life Without Me (2003). This isn't to dismiss Sarah Polley's fine central performance as Ann, but something...
- 9/26/2010
- by Craig Bloomfield
- FilmExperience
Juliette Binoche in Summer Hours ( Jeannick Gravelines / IFC Films) Olivier Assayas’ family drama Summer Hours has been named the best film of 2009 in indieWIRE’s annual poll of 114 film critics and bloggers, Eugene Hernandez reports. Also, David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr. was chosen the best film of the decade. Starring Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, and Jérémie Renier, Summer Hours tells the story of three siblings fighting for the possessions left behind by their deceased mother (Edith Scob) at the family’s summer house. Earlier this month, Summer Hours was voted the best foreign language film of 2009 by the Los Angeles, New York, and Boston film critics. Following in second place in indieWIRE’s poll was Joel and Ethan Coen’s A Serious [...]...
- 12/22/2009
- by Anna Robinson
- Alt Film Guide
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