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In honor of what would've been the great Philip Seymour Hoffman's 51st birthday today's edition of "Beauty vs Beast" at The Film Experience is dedicated to what is probably his last truly great performance, that of Lancaster Dodd in Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master. I vacillated back and forth on PSH over the years - I was really annoyed when he won the Oscar for Capote over Heath Ledger in Brokeback - but my god I feel sad when I think about all the performances we're never gonna be getting from him. We're blessed to have what we do, though.
What's your favorite PSH?
Mine is super easy...
... but there are at least a dozen I adore.
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I thought he was truly amazing in Capote which made his victory over Heath Ledger easier to take much as Marion Cotillard's win for La Vie en Rose instead of Julie Christie in Away from Her did. It's still disappointing but when the work is on par with that of the person you're pulling for it lessens the sting.
I think that his greatest performance was as Willie Loman in Mike Nichols's production of Death of a Salesman. Oh, that last confrontation/ reconciliation between him and Andrew Garfield (Biff). Unforgettable.
i'm still annoyed about that oscar win...
favourite performance: nailing the snobby rich boy privilege of freddie in the talented mr ripley
- "how's the peeping, tommy?"
Yeah, it's hard to be upset about Ledger's loss when Hoffman was that good in Capote (I mean, I'm still kinda upset about it, but still).
But I think Talented Mr. Ripley was the first thing I saw him in (or maybe it was Boogie Nights?) and, honestly, it tainted my view of him in every film he did after that. I'm sure he was a lovely person but I just can't disassociate him from his character in that movie.
He was so great in "Happiness"
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