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Favorite Performance? (Besides Bernard Lowe)

posted 5 years ago by Moviebuff1 (2835)
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For me, it's Basquiat.

[–] haberdasherer (88) 5 years ago

I love him as Al Melvin in the 2004 Manchurian Candidate. He's not got much screen time but he's both disturbing and heartbreaking in the short few scenes he has.

He's also electrifying and truly scary as Peoples in the first Sam Jackson Shaft movie.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Felix Leiter

[–] haberdasherer (88) 5 years ago

"Does it look like we need the money?"

[–] Wuchak (8837) 5 years ago

"Hold the Dark" and "Ride with the Devil."

[–] spacecomedy (2051) 4 years ago

Absolutely. He was brilliant.

I love the scene where he's working at the gallery (before he becomes famous) and Mary Boone (Parker Posey was fantastic) condescendingly asks him to move some stuff. He just looks at her, lifts his chin up a little and strolls right out. Albert Milo (Oldman) smiles and says, "That told you."

Wish we had more actors the caliber of Wright.

[–] BourbonKing (5782) 4 years ago

"Ride with the Devil"

[–] BrandNewPoster (10996) 10 months ago

American Fiction.

[–] Information-Police (4895) 6 months ago

Belize. He was the best actor in "Angels in America".