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Today,
The Woman in the Window drops on Netflix, after years of delays and reedits for the Amy Adams / Joe Wright collaboration. To celebrate the release, we are counting down the top ten performances from six-time Academy Award nominee Amy Adams’ remarkable twenty year career.
10. ‘Cruel Intentions 2’
Cruel Intentions, the teenage adaptation of the pre-revolution French period drama
Dangerous Liaisons, the concept was to be adapted into a show. They shot a pilot, with Adams stepping into the Grand Dame Manipulator role played by Sarah Michelle Gellar in the first
Intentions and Glenn Close in
Liaisons. When the show didn’t get picked up, they shot 45 more minutes and released the film direct to DVD. Adams sinks her teeth into the part, and is the only performer who has any idea what the tone of the project is supposed to be, deliciously spouting lines like “No one, and I mean no one, is about to threaten my cushy lifestyle. Especially not some two-bit hick loser
Promising Young Woman
With stories of a ‘rape culture’ at many British schools very much in the headlines, Emerald Fennell’s new film couldn’t be more timely. Its towering triumph – both for Fennell, who writes and directs and has secured Oscar nominations for both and for its similarly nominated star, Carey Mulligan – is that despite the distressing subject matter, it couldn’t be more watchable.
From brilliant opening to an ending about which nothing should be said, this is the sad, funny, disturbing tale of the #MeToo generation of women finally getting their own back; man by abusive man.
in its use as an instrument. truman capote. to the cult leader lancaster dodd. to his role in lester banks in almost famous where he made outsiders feel like they belong. women will always be a problem for guys like us. most of the great art in the world is about that very problem. good looking people, they got no spine. their art never lasts. they get the girls. we re smarter. yeah. i can really see that now. yeah, because great art is about guilt and longing and, you know, love disguises sex and sex disguises love. face it. you got a big head start. glad you were home. i m always home. i m on call. me, too. you re doing great.
philip seymour hoffman thrilled us. his transformational chameleonic, mastery of his body in its use as an instrument. truman capote. to the cult leader lancaster dodd. to his role in lester banks in almost famous where he made outsiders feel like they belong. women will always be a problem for guys like us. most of the great art in the world is about that very problem. good looking people, they got no spine. their art never lasts. they get the girls. we re smarter. yeah. i can really see that now. yeah, because great art is about guilt and longing and, you know, love disguises sex and sex disguises love. face it. you got a big head start. glad you were home. i m always home.