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Favorite Actresses

Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2019 8:09 pm
by JSchlansky
I put together a video going through my favorite actresses

Feel free to share your personal list (obviously it doesn't need to be in video form)

Re: Favorite Actresses

Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2019 4:15 am
by TheDenizen
Here's 10 in no particular order: Pam Grier, Claudia Cardinale, Meiko Kaji, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Juliette Lewis, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Yeoh, Kara Hui, Natalie Portman, Reiko Ike

Note that all these ladies might not necessarily be the best actresses, but frequently appear in the sort of genre cinema I enjoy most.

Re: Favorite Actresses

Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2019 4:35 am
by JSchlansky
I almost picked Michelle Yeoh too. Just saw Meiko Kaji for the first time in Lady Snowblood the other day, I've got to check out more of her stuff.

Re: Favorite Actresses

Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2019 4:49 am
by TheDenizen
For Meiko Kaji, I highly recommend "Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion" and "Jeans Blues: No Future". "Wandering Ginza Butterfly" isn't bad, either. She also has a pretty good supporting role in Kinji Fukasaku's awesome "Yakuza Graveyard"

:ugeek:

also, props for including Olivia Colman on your list. a very funny comedic actress with some serious dramatic chops to boot.

Re: Favorite Actresses

Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2019 8:01 pm
by JSchlansky
Thanks for the recommendations. Yakuza Graveyard was the only one of those already on my radar

re: Favorite Actresses

Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2019 4:46 am
by karamazov.
brickwall wrote:Laura Dern, . . . Faye Dunaway

Yes, two of my favorites as well.

Rest of my list (no order):
-Gena Rowlands,
-Joan Crawford,
-Bette Davis,
-Angeliki Papoulia,
-Elizabeth Berkley (in only one movie, so that doesn't count by your criteria),
-Juliette Binoche,
-Judy Garland,
-Katharine Hepburn,
-Isabelle Huppert (greatest actor/actress of all time).

Re: Favorite Actresses

Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2019 6:20 am
by iconogassed
JJL, Huppert, Grier, and Michelle Williams are all up there

others among the active:

Lili Taylor
Geneviève Bujold
Samantha Morton
Rosanna Arquette (> Patricia)
Sally Field
Cicely Tyson
Chloë Sevigny
Amy Seimetz
Mary-Louise Parker
Julie Hagerty
Sally Hawkins
Bonnie Bedelia
Parker Posey
Holly Hunter
Agnes Bruckner
Kate Lyn Sheil
Shailene Woodley
Rosario Dawson
Kathleen Turner
Nathalie Baye

Re: re: Favorite Actresses

Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2019 2:56 pm
by JSchlansky
karamazov. wrote:-Juliette Binoche,
-Isabelle Huppert (greatest actor/actress of all time).


Juliette Binoche I like quite a lot, she's someone I just need to see more from. Somehow I don't think I've seen anything with Isabelle Huppert, though I've been meaning to.

dookobore wrote:Mary-Louise Parker
Sally Hawkins
Holly Hunter
Rosario Dawson


I like all of them quite a lot. If I did my list to top 30; Mary Louise Parker and Rosario Dawson would definitely be on there.

Re: Favorite Actresses

Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2019 3:15 pm
by paulofilmo
Isabelle Huppert [del]
Celia Johnson [del]
Samantha Morton [del]
Gena Rowlands [del]
Sharmila Tagore [del]
Liv Ullmann [del]

not sure why i haven't added kelly macdonald, edith evans, anna magnani. <3

vanessa redgrave seems to know what she's about

Re: Favorite Actresses

Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2019 3:44 pm
by BillyShears
Pam Grier Bubs appreciation station thread