What do you think is Vanessa Redgrave's best film performance?
What is Vanessa Redgrave's Best Performance?
by Anonymous | reply 84 | March 19, 2023 9:46 PM |
Mary Debenham in Murder on the Orient Express
by Anonymous | reply 1 | September 30, 2022 2:39 AM |
Guinevere opposite Franco Nero/Camelot.
It was all downhill from there.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | September 30, 2022 2:47 AM |
I'm partial to her performances in Howards End and Prick Up Your Ears, but she was hilarious in an obscure comedy called Consuming Passions.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | September 30, 2022 2:53 AM |
Her best performance?
Blaming the Jews, of course!
by Anonymous | reply 4 | September 30, 2022 2:55 AM |
As Renee Richards in Second Serve (1986)
by Anonymous | reply 5 | October 23, 2022 7:54 PM |
Glad to see DL-fave Julia doing well in the poll. Makes me want to have an egg with a warm roll.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | October 23, 2022 8:04 PM |
BLANCHE HUDSON
by Anonymous | reply 7 | October 23, 2022 8:10 PM |
I'm seriously un-starstruck, and yet I've landed in this place all the same. Vanessa Redgrave is something of the exception that makes me sit up and pay attention. How spectacular she can be with seemingly the least little effort. Further, she's one of those rare people who gets ever better looking with age.
I was having lunch with s friend and somehow I mentioned her name and he offered that he knew her, that he produced a film in which she starred. My friend has done lots of interesting and not obviously connected things, but I had no idea...and Vanessa Redgrave! I was fucking impressed.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | October 23, 2022 8:38 PM |
Vanessa is fading fast - her voice is going and she's very old, she's done a few interviews recently. Can't remember where.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | October 23, 2022 8:46 PM |
I enjoyed her in the 90s version of Wind in the Willows.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | October 23, 2022 8:48 PM |
Oof Madon’, where the fuck is Bella Mafia, OP?
by Anonymous | reply 12 | October 23, 2022 10:39 PM |
Atonement
by Anonymous | reply 13 | October 23, 2022 10:46 PM |
Has anyone here seen the Tv remake of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane with her as Blanche and Lynn as Jane?
by Anonymous | reply 14 | November 3, 2022 3:16 PM |
I love her in Howards End
by Anonymous | reply 15 | November 3, 2022 3:18 PM |
I have not seen a single one of those films
by Anonymous | reply 16 | November 3, 2022 3:26 PM |
^ My condolences
by Anonymous | reply 17 | November 3, 2022 3:31 PM |
R16 what have you seen her in?
by Anonymous | reply 18 | November 3, 2022 6:24 PM |
I enjoyed her as the sexually repressed hunchback nun in The Devils opposite Oliver Reed.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | November 3, 2022 6:29 PM |
I love her in most of the things I’ve seen her in. The ones I’m thinking off the top of my head are:
Wertherby Howards End The Devils Julia Prick Up Your Ears
by Anonymous | reply 20 | November 3, 2022 6:36 PM |
I've seen it R14. Vanessa is OK but Lynn is embarrassing as Jane. And John Glover in the Victor Buono role is even worse - a total freak show. Skip it.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | November 3, 2022 6:55 PM |
What is Lynn Redgrave’s best performance?
Georgy Girl? Gods and Monsters? The Happy Hooker?
by Anonymous | reply 22 | November 3, 2022 7:10 PM |
Sister Jeanne and Isadora for leads. Andromache and Ruth for supporting.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | November 3, 2022 7:20 PM |
Where the fuck is Mrs Dalloway?
by Anonymous | reply 24 | November 3, 2022 7:21 PM |
Top 5 IMO:
ISADORA, PLAYING FOR TIME, THE TROJAN WOMEN, THE BOSTONIANS, HOWARDS END. Honorable mention to MRS. DALLOWAY, PRICK UP YOUR EARS, and JULIA.
I don't much like her in THE DEVILS. She hits the same crazy bitch note over and over, but that's as much Ken Russell's fault. Oliver Reed gives the better performance.
I wish the full 168-minute roadshow version of ISADORA was available somehow. The only version I see on DVD is the 138-minute version - not even the 153-minute Director's Cut.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | November 3, 2022 7:58 PM |
She was good as Joley's mother in guest appearances on Nip/Tuck
by Anonymous | reply 26 | November 3, 2022 8:03 PM |
Did Streisand deserve to share the Oscar with Hepburn that year, or was Vanessa better than her? (Or both)
by Anonymous | reply 27 | November 3, 2022 8:11 PM |
Edith Evans deserved to win for The Whisperers in 1968 and Katherine to win alone for Lion In Winter in 1969. Babs could win for The Way We Were and Vanessa for The Bostonians.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | November 3, 2022 8:17 PM |
Vanessa was definitely better than Streisand, whose performance in FUNNY GIRL is only good in the comic and/or musical scenes. When things get more dramatic in the 2nd half, she's not good.
Honestly, I think Redgrave is better than Hepburn too. I've always been bewildered by the praise for THE LION IN WINTER. It's not a good script. Hepburn is only good when she's being bitchy/snarky. O'Toole just bellows a lot. The only truly good performance in the film is from Timothy Dalton.
Hepburn's other Oscar should have been for LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT in a tie with Anne Bancroft.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | November 3, 2022 8:22 PM |
Fuck you R29!
by Anonymous | reply 30 | November 3, 2022 8:39 PM |
No option for Other.
I would have picked her performance as the Evil Queen in the wonderful Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | November 3, 2022 8:52 PM |
[quote] I was having lunch with s friend and somehow I mentioned her name and he offered that he knew her, that he produced a film in which she starred.
Was it a small film he didn't tell you about, R8?
Because she has appeared in LOTS of small films of little value.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | November 3, 2022 9:08 PM |
[quote] Where the fuck is Mrs Dalloway?
There's no need for foul language, R24!
by Anonymous | reply 33 | November 3, 2022 9:10 PM |
"Playing for Time" (1980)
by Anonymous | reply 34 | February 10, 2023 1:47 AM |
"Second Serve" (1986)
by Anonymous | reply 35 | February 12, 2023 7:16 PM |
I loved her in that episode when I was a kid R31. Even then, I was mesmerized by her willingness to be photographed so beautifully and then transform into those two crones she plays when she tries to kill Snow White. She really sold that role and gave it everything she had. I fell in love with her right then and there.
I also loved her guest spots on Nip/Tuck. She was very funny and captivating. It seemed like a surprising role for her to take at that point. It's hard to believe that was nearly 20 years ago.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | February 12, 2023 7:25 PM |
Howard’s End!! She was even nommed for it. The ponies in the paddock…..
by Anonymous | reply 37 | February 12, 2023 7:58 PM |
Whenever I hear her voiceovers on Call the Midwife I picture her literally phoning them in while she makes herself a sandwich.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | February 12, 2023 8:11 PM |
Guinevere in Camelot.
Unlike Julie Andrews, she actually brought the list to the month of May.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | February 12, 2023 10:53 PM |
It’s obviously The Devils, she’s utterly magnificent in that. Swings for the fences!
She has had so many attractive men for a woman who was never really a sexpot - she was very attractive but in a more elegant way. Franco Nero and Timothy Dalton being her longest term relationships, may we all be so lucky.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | February 12, 2023 11:09 PM |
She appeared in "Yanks", 1979. It was a superb movie, and her performance was sublime.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | February 12, 2023 11:25 PM |
Her performance in The Devils is so unhinged from the beginning there's no place for it to go. The only decent performance in that film is from Oliver Reed.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | February 13, 2023 2:35 AM |
Her Oscar acceptance speech for Julia in 1978.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | February 13, 2023 2:38 AM |
Wetherby
by Anonymous | reply 44 | February 13, 2023 10:01 PM |
Mary, Queen of Scots gets my vote.
Vanessa Redgrave and Glenda Jackson gave definitive performances of the doomed Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I. Subject has been done to death before and since but nothing tops this film.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | February 14, 2023 8:39 AM |
I suppose we do need to think about this as Vanessa is near death.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | February 14, 2023 9:50 AM |
Redgrave at Vivienne Westwood's memorial. Sad last days?
by Anonymous | reply 47 | February 16, 2023 10:00 PM |
I've also liked Vanessa's laugh. Very unique.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | February 16, 2023 10:02 PM |
She's Jane Fonda's favorite actress. She named her daughter Vanessa.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | February 16, 2023 10:04 PM |
Riding the dicks of young and gorgeous Timothy Dalton and Franco Nero
by Anonymous | reply 50 | February 16, 2023 10:04 PM |
[quote] he produced a film in which she starred.
Unfortunately she has appeared in too many films. 147 of them.
She's as undiscriminating as her father.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | February 16, 2023 10:05 PM |
R9 I'm sorry to say her time is near.
The English would say she had "a good innings".
by Anonymous | reply 52 | February 16, 2023 10:08 PM |
[quote] What is Lynn Redgrave’s best performance?
That happened on stage.
All her appearances on screen were definitely hindered/circumscribed by the script, bad directors and editor etc.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | February 16, 2023 10:12 PM |
R24 There's no need for bad language.
Especially now as we gather to pay tribute to an extremely talented performer who is now close to death.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | February 16, 2023 10:14 PM |
As great as many of these film performances are, her finest work is on the stage: LONG DAYS JOURNEY, YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING, JEAN BRODIE.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | February 16, 2023 10:14 PM |
[quote] She's Jane Fonda's favorite actress
Chalk and cheese.
An American cat may look at an English queen.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | February 16, 2023 10:18 PM |
R53 Georgy Girl was pretty good.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | February 16, 2023 10:18 PM |
R47 Yes, definitely "Sad last days".
She is wearing Ugg Boots. And of course she is being led as she, unfortunately, has been vision-impaired if not half-blind for 40 years.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | February 16, 2023 10:21 PM |
When she's good, she's fairly without peers to my view. I can't not be absorbed in everything she says, every nuance, the look into her clear eyes that she opens up as though doors, the better to see inside her.
The last few minutes of Atonement (for which she more than deserved her nominations) requires no more explanation than what is shown in her eyes and her voice.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | February 16, 2023 10:23 PM |
Sad last days.
She's been myopic for half century but she's now almost blind.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | March 10, 2023 6:52 PM |
I love her in Wetherby. She was also great in Mrs. Dalloway.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | March 10, 2023 6:58 PM |
She is now a shell of what she was.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | March 10, 2023 7:05 PM |
Maid In Manhattan
by Anonymous | reply 63 | March 10, 2023 7:14 PM |
Maybe it's still her legendary Rosalind in "As You Like It"....there is audio of it on YouTube...it was also filmed, but I have only managed to see clips of it.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | March 14, 2023 10:57 PM |
Her guest starring role on NipTuck.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | March 14, 2023 11:07 PM |
I saw Julia for the first time recently and, while lovely to look at, I don't understand why Vanessa won an Oscar for it. She's fine, but the part was flimsy, just a vehicle for a '70s leftist to connect her activism to the Nazi Resistance. Of course the real woman on whom Lillian Hellman based her alleged friend later revealed herself in the 1980s. I would've voted for Tuesday Weld in Goodbar. Jason Robards barely registered, but I guess he was better than Baryshnikov and Alec Guinness
by Anonymous | reply 66 | March 14, 2023 11:31 PM |
It's Dame Vanessa you old queens!
by Anonymous | reply 67 | March 15, 2023 12:27 AM |
Julia was considered a more prestige film than Goodbar, and that counts.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | March 15, 2023 1:20 AM |
[quote]I saw Julia for the first time recently and, while lovely to look at, I don't understand why Vanessa won an Oscar for it. She's fine, but the part was flimsy, just a vehicle for a '70s leftist to connect her activism to the Nazi Resistance. Of course the real woman on whom Lillian Hellman based her alleged friend later revealed herself in the 1980s. I would've voted for Tuesday Weld in Goodbar. Jason Robards barely registered, but I guess he was better than Baryshnikov and Alec Guinness
She had a wooden leg! FFS!
by Anonymous | reply 69 | March 15, 2023 8:35 AM |
I only recently saw Julia as well and couldn't understand the hype at all. I found all the leads had done far better work elsewhere and, for every compelling scene, there were about 5 that were long and tedious.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | March 15, 2023 5:22 PM |
No one mentioned Evening where she plays an old woman dying and being cared for by her daughters Natasha Richardson and Toni Collette, and has flashbacks to when she was Claire Danes and Claire went to stay with Glenn Close's family which included a Streep daughter, and Claire fucked Streep daughter's hot fiancé and the brother killed himself or something because he wanted hot fiancé and Glenn Close HOWLED LIKE A WOLF IN PAIN and then the Streep daughter grew up to be Meryl and went to see Vanessa and then Vanessa died.
At least I think that's what happened.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | March 15, 2023 7:38 PM |
Anyone know what movie R71 is feverishly rambling about?
He makes it sound worth seeing.
by Anonymous | reply 72 | March 15, 2023 7:48 PM |
[quote]Anyone know what movie [R71] is feverishly rambling about?
The title of the movie is the 4th word of the post.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | March 15, 2023 7:50 PM |
Oops. Sorry about that.
Apparently my attention span is so bad now I can't make it to the end of a paragraph without forgetting the beginning of it.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | March 15, 2023 7:52 PM |
Vanessa bump...did anyone see her on stage? Her theater career goes a long way back and it's extensive. Everybody who saw it raves about her in Ibsen's "The Lady from the Sea," too.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | March 17, 2023 9:12 PM |
Yes, LONG DAY'S JOURNEY, MAGICAL THINKING, ORPHEUS DESCENDING, DRIVING MISS DAISY, HEARTBREAK HOUSE (London), and that weird little play with Jesse Eisenberg at the tiny Cherry Lane Theater, THE REVISIONIST. She was always brilliant.
by Anonymous | reply 76 | March 17, 2023 10:35 PM |
There was a book about Redgrave that came out around ten or so years ago...about her acting career but also about her extremist political life...I enjoyed it.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | March 18, 2023 8:13 PM |
I’m watching her now in A PICTURE OF KATHERINE MANSFIELD with Annette Crosbie and the ever handsome Jeremy Brett with curly hair.
I’m on an old BBC production kick and falling deeper and deeper thanks to YouTube.
I know I should learn to italicize but…
by Anonymous | reply 78 | March 18, 2023 8:23 PM |
I'd say "Committed Socialist Activist."
Best, if not most convincing.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | March 18, 2023 8:26 PM |
I loved her onstage in LONG DAY'S JOURNEY, YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING, and, in London, THE CHERRY ORCHARD.
OHPHEUS DESCENDING not so much, but it's really not a very good play.
by Anonymous | reply 80 | March 18, 2023 10:18 PM |
Redgrave doesn't get enough love, respect, or discussion on the DL....in her prime, there was no better actor...no one more imaginative or poetic. She really was touched by genius of a kind, but it was a perverse genius, and it led her further and further off track.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | March 19, 2023 8:52 PM |
When I saw Atonement the first time, I was unimpressed with the movie as a whole...until Vanessa Redgrave showed up very late in the proceedings. She was incredible and riveting in what could have been a throw-away scene. True talent.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | March 19, 2023 9:00 PM |
[quote]When I saw Atonement the first time, I was unimpressed with the movie as a whole...until Vanessa Redgrave showed up very late in the proceedings. She was incredible and riveting in what could have been a throw-away scene. True talent.
I saw Atonement the day it was released in the cinema. I'd heard about a twist and made a point of not reading any reviews.
Vanessa's appearance came as a huge shock, as did Anthony Minghella, and then the plot reveal was so well done. I was sat in a daze reevaluating what I'd just seen and as soon as the credits started the movie stopped, the lights came on full and the Scissor Sisters' I Don't Feel Like Dancing started playing. It was like being woken up suddenly from a dream.
And yes, despite Briony Tallis keeping the exact same hairstyle over 70 years, Vanessa's performance was outstanding, as were Saoirse Ronan and Romola Garai. Garai was cast after filming had started and she made a point of carrying on Ronan's characterisation.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | March 19, 2023 9:21 PM |
She is lovely.
by Anonymous | reply 84 | March 19, 2023 9:46 PM |