I have a big crush on 1970s Sissy Spacek. She had the amazing ability to look strange, average, and beautiful simultaneously. If there's a certain wildness that's missing from her features now, she is still a great actress. She has enormous range and a completely unpretentious way of inhabiting her characters. She deserves as much, if not more, of the accolades showered on Meryl Streep.
Recommended Sissy Spacek performances:
Badlands (Terrence Malick, 1973)
Carrie (Brian de Palma, 1976)
3 Women (Robert Altman, 1977)
Coal Miner's Daughter (Michael Apted, 1980)
Affliction (Paul Schrader, 1997)
The Straight Story (David Lynch, 1999)
In the Bedroom (Todd Field, 2001)
2 comments:
I absolutely could not agree more; and the representative films of hers that you have selected are all excellent. Bravo!
I just watched 3 Women about two weeks ago. She's so great in that movie, like an alien from another planet dropped in the desert and wearing a pink dress. I watched a little of it with Robert Altman's commentary, and he said that in the scene that she chugs the huge mug of beer, she threw it all up on the first take but did it again, without throwing up, right away. Eat that Meryl Streep.
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