Bogie56 Posted March 15, 2017 Author Share Posted March 15, 2017 The Japanese Academy Awards for 1987 were … Best Actor Tsutomu Yamazaki, A Taxing Woman and Night Train Best Actress Noboku Miyamoto, A Taxing Woman Best Supporting Actor Masahiko Tsugawa, A Taxing Woman Best Supporting Actress Rino Katase, Tokyo Bordello and Wives of the Yakuza 2 ————————————————————————————— Japan’s Blue Ribbon Awards for 1987 were … Best Actor Takanori Jinnai, Paper Lantern Best Actress Yoshiko Mita, Wakerenu Riyu Best Supporting Actor Toshiro Mifune, Tora-San Goes North Best Supporting Actress Kumiko Akiyoshi, Yogisha ————————————————————————————— Japan’s Mainichi Awards for 1987 were … Best Actor Masahiko Tsugawa, A Taxing Woman and Wakarenu Riyu Best Actress Yukio Toake, Yoshiga and River of Fireflies and Wives of the Yakuza 2 Best Supporting Actor Toshiro Mifune, Tora-San Goes North Best Supporting Actress Eri Ishida, Paper Lantern Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 Here are the 1987 movies that I have not seen: Agent Trouble A Boy from Calabria Eat the Rich 84 Charing Cross Road El Lute: Run for Your Life The Family Farewell Moscow The Glass Menagerie The Grand Highway/ Le Grand Chemin Hector High Tide Hip Hip Hurrah! Housekeeping The Inquiry I've Heard the Mermaids Singing Jilted John and the Missus Kangaroo King Lear L'Homme Volle Law of Desire Les Innocents The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne Love, Mother Made in Heaven Maurice Me and My Sister Night Train Out of Rosenheim Paper Lantern Personal Services Princess from the Moon Promised Land Red Sorghum River of Fireflies Shy People Square Dance Surrogate Mother The Tale of Ruby Rose A Taxing Woman Tokyo Bordello Tora-San Goes North Travelling North Un Zoo la Nuit Under the Sun of Satan The Van Paemel Family Wakarenu Riyu Where Is the Friend's Home White Mischief Wish You Were Here Wives of the Yakuza 2 The Year My Voice Broke Yoshiga Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted March 16, 2017 Author Share Posted March 16, 2017 Here are the films from 1987 that were mentioned that I have not seen as yet. Agent Trouble with Dominique Lavanant The Boy From Calabria with Gian Maria Volonte A Chinese Ghost Story with Wu Ma City on Fire with Chow Yun-fat Dirty Dancing with Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey El Lute: Run For Your Life with Imanol Arias and Victoria Abril Evil Dead 2 with Bruce Campbell Farewell Moscow with Liv Ullmann Hector with Urbanus Hellraiser with Claire Higgins High Tide with Judy Davis and Jan Adele Hip Hip Hurrah! with Lene Brondum Hollywood Shuffle with Robert Townsend Jilted with Tina Bursill Kangaroo with Judy Davis King Lear with Molly Ringwald Law of Desire with Antonio Banderas Les Innocents with Jean-Claude Brialy Less Than Zero with Robert Downey, Jr. L’Homme Volle with Bernard Giraudeau Love Mother with Dorottya Udraros Made In Heaven with Kelly McGillis Me and My Sister with Ornella Muti and Elena Sofia Ricci Night Train with Tsutomu Yamazaki Outrageous Fortune with Bette Midler and Shelley Long Overboard with Goldie Hawn Paper Lantern with Takanori Jinnai and Eri Ishida River of Fireflies with Toake Yoshiga Square Dance with Rob Lowe Surrogate Mother with Soo-yeong Kang The Tale of Ruby Rose with Melita Jurisic A Taxing Woman with Tsutomu Yamazaki, Noboku Miyamoto and Masahiko Tsugawa Tokyo Bordello with Rino Katase Tora-san Goes North with Toshiro Mifune Tough Guys Don’t Dance with Debra Stipe and Wings Hauser Travelling North with Leo McKern Under the Sun of Satan with Sandrine Bonnaire The Van Paemel Family with Senne Rouffaer Wakerenu Riyu with Masahiko Tsugawa and Yoshiko Mita Weeds with Nick Nolte Where Is the Friend’s Home with Babek Ahmed Pour Wisdom with Emilio Estevez Wives of the Yakuza 2 with Rino Katase and Yukio Toake The Year My Voice Broke with Ben Mendelsohn Yoshiga with Yukio Toake and Kumiko Akiyoshi And I would like to see these again … The Family for Ottavia Piccolo Good Morning Vietnam for Chintara Sukapatana The Inquiry for Lina Sastri La Bamba for Elizabeth Pena Matewan for Nancy Mette Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted March 16, 2017 Author Share Posted March 16, 2017 Here are the 1987 movies that I have not seen: Eat the Rich 84 Charing Cross Road The Family The Glass Menagerie The Grand Highway/ Le Grand Chemin Housekeeping The Inquiry I've Heard the Mermaids Singing John and the Missus The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne Maurice Personal Services Princess from the Moon Red Sorghum Shy People Un Zoo la Nuit White Mischief Wish You Were Here I've seen those listed above. Some of these were among the award winners but not in my lists so my memory of them is a little fuzzy. Here's one who did make my supporting runner up list ... With a name like Nosher Powell why bother to call his character anything else. Eat the Rich is a black English comedy in an anarchist tradition where the rich literally get served up in a posh restaurant. Nosher plays the British Home Secretary. It was probably the biggest role in his career which was mostly filled with stuntman credits. He was said to have been the heavyweight boxing champion of unlicensed fights at one time and to have been the sparring partner for Joe Louis and Mohammed Ali. I'm not sure if you could call Nosher's performance in Eat the Rich fine acting but it was different enough to get my attention. Having a bombastic lout as Home Secretary was so against type as to be quite funny in my book. Shirley Stelfox and Julie Walters both made my list in Personal Services which is the story of real life madam, Cynthia Payne who acted as a consultant on the film. Cash-strapped Walters meets prostitute Stelfox who gives her the idea of opening up a domination brothel in her suburban home. The film is quite funny and the girls are fabulous in it. I had both Joss Ackland and Greta Scacchi on my 1988 list for White Mischief. The imdb and wikipedia call it a 1987 film though wiki gives it a 1988 release date. I will go back and add both of these actors to my 1987 posts in the runner-ups. It is a pretty good film with plenty of great atmosphere. It deals with a real life murder case in colonial Kenya. Ackland plays the older cuckolded husband to Scacchi. Ayako Wakao and Toshiro Mifune play two poor farmers who lose their daughter in Princess From the Moon by Kon Ichikawa. It is based on a 9th century Japanese folk tale. The couple discover a magical replacement child who they then raise. The child brings them good fortune and rather quickly grows up to be a serious looker who is courted by many. Ayako Wakao (1933 - ) made my runner up list of supporting actresses. Her filmography is full of many notable Japanese films from the 50's on up. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoraSmith Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 Red Sorghum is a Chinese classic based upon a novel by Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan. It's the debut of director Zhang Yimou and of Gong Li, one of China's best actresses. She plays a woman who runs a distillery for sorghum liquor in the 1930s and 40s. Conflicts involve her family, her economic struggle and the political tension with Japan. The natural environment and the use of the colour red make it visually stunning. Outrageous Fortune is an entertaining comedy with Bette Midler and Shelley Long, better known as Diane in Cheers. They play two contrasting characters - the wannabe intellectual and the rude type - who get involved in an adventure together. It's a fun watch, but don't expect too much depth. Overboard is a romantic comedy with Goldie Hawn and her husband Kurt Russell. She plays a woman who's trapped in a marriage with a wealthy man she doesn't love, until he falls overboard from his yacht.. Goldie Hawn is quite funny as the spoiled and selfish wife. Hector was a national hit with Belgian comedian Urbanus (Urbain Servranckx). I couldn't resist nominating this childhood memory. In one scene he drinks a giant glass of chocolate milk. How could the Academy overlook this subtle dramatic performance? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted March 16, 2017 Author Share Posted March 16, 2017 **Announcement** We’re going to get a head start on 1988 by starting it tomorrow instead of Saturday. Plus it will be a shorter week for the year 1988 ending on Wednesday, Mar 22. 1989 will begin on Thursday, Mar 23. and run until the following Wednesday. This will then give us time to do a best of the decade review starting on that Thursday. I will begin by changing the thread title to Your Favourite Performances from the 1980's and positing all of our number one choices for the various years of the 1980's in the five categories then everyone can post their top choices for the decade. Hopefully we can wrap this up by the Friday night at which point I will do a tally of our favourites for the decade. Newcomers are most welcome. 1990 will then start on the Saturday. This thread seems to be just like the aging process. The further along we come the quicker things seem to be moving. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swithin Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 A quick word about Barnard Hughes, a fine actor whose performance as the grandfather in The Lost Boys is one of my favorite supporting performances of 1987. I worked with Barney a few times and got to know him and his wife, the actress Helen Stenborg. They were among the nicest people working in the theater. Their son, Doug Hughes, is a respected theater director who won a Tony Award for Best Director for the original production of Doubt. Barney and Helen lived in NYC, on the Upper West Side, not too far from Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 Here are the films from 1987 that were mentioned that I have not seen as yet. A Chinese Ghost Story with Wu Ma City on Fire with Chow Yun-fat Dirty Dancing with Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey Evil Dead 2 with Bruce Campbell Hellraiser with Claire Higgins Hollywood Shuffle with Robert Townsend Less Than Zero with Robert Downey, Jr. Outrageous Fortune with Bette Midler and Shelley Long Overboard with Goldie Hawn Tough Guys Don’t Dance with Debra Stipe and Wings Hauser Weeds with Nick Nolte Wisdom with Emilio Estevez I haven't seen many on your list. I've discussed 3 of them already, and Cora mentioned a couple more. Less Than Zero belongs to that particular 1980's subgenre of the young cokehead living in the fast lane. Downey Jr. plays the guy on the downward spiral (shades of real life). I liked the Bangles remake of "Hazy Shade of Winter" from the soundtrack. Weeds is about a prison playwright. Nolte is very good as the lifer who turns to drama to deal with his existential dead-end. Wisdom is a guilty pleasure, as I liked it, but I know it's constantly bashed for being terrible most everywhere else. Much was made at the time of Estevez not just starring in the movie, but also writing and directing it. He plays a modern day Robin Hood, robbing banks to help struggling farmers pay their mortgages. A cop-out ending almost ruins the movie, though. Hollywood Shuffle is a biting, very funny satire on the struggles of being black in the movie/TV business. Robert Townsend directs, writes and stars as a struggling young actor forced to play every stereotype in the book just to make ends meet. It may be a little dated now, but it still retains much of its humor. Evil Dead 2 is one my favorite horror comedies. The first Evil Dead in 1981 was a frenetic, very low-budget horror film played very straight. For this sequel (although it could be called a remake, since the opening 10 minutes recap/rescript the first film), it's played straight but so broadly and with tongue so obviously firmly in cheek that the laughs outweigh the scares. The flimsy plot concerns some people at a cabin in the woods who unknowingly unleash malevolent demons who proceed to possess people. There are several sight gags that have gone on to horror fan immortality. And I would be hard-pressed to think of another horror film that has as many frequently quoted lines. Bruce Campbell, as the beleaguered hero Ash, gets the majority of these, and his portrayal has become as iconic as any of the other 1980's horror characters. Campbell and director Sam Raimi returned to this series with 1992's Army of Darkness, which, while still containing some fun material, was a step down in my opinion, as it is played as even more of a broad farce, with Three Stooges-like comedy scenes. The character returned again last year for the cable TV series Ash vs Evil Dead. No one should ever watch Tough Guys Don't Dance. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted March 16, 2017 Author Share Posted March 16, 2017 Before we hit 1988 I would like to mention that I am going with 1988 for Camille Claudel. It competed in the 1989 Oscars but was released in France in December 1988. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted March 17, 2017 Author Share Posted March 17, 2017 Leading vs. Supporting Categories in 1988 … IMO John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis and Kevin Kline are all leads in A Fish Called Wanda. Oscar put Kline in the supporting category which he benefited from and won. BAFTA had him as a lead. Barbara Hershey and Jodhi May are the leads in A World Apart. Linda Mvusi is supporting. John Malkovich and Glenn Close are the leads in Dangerous Liaisons. Michelle Pfeiffer is supporting. Sam Neill is the lead actor in A Cry In the Dark. Melanie Griffith is the sole lead in Working Girl. Kevin Kostner, Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon are all leads in Bull Durham. Genevieve Bujold is the lead actress in Dead Ringers. Elizabeth Perkins is the lead actress in Big. Bryan Brown is supporting in Gorillas In the Mist. Johanna Ter Steege is supporting in The Vanishing. I too have Juliette Binoche as a lead and Lena Olin as supporting in The Unbearabe Lightness of Being. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted March 17, 2017 Author Share Posted March 17, 2017 It’s time for 1988. We will be on 1988 only until next Wednesday. 1989 will begin next Thursday in order to give us enough time for a decade review. Here are Oscar’s choices for 1988. Winners in bold. Best Actor Dustin Hoffman, Rain Man* Gene Hackman, Mississipi Burning Tom Hanks, Big Edward James Olmos, Stand and Deliver Max von Sydow, Pelle the Conqueror (87) Best Actress Jodie Foster, The Accused* Glenn Close, Dangerous Liaisons Melanie Griffith, Working Girl Meryl Streep, A Cry in the Dark Sigourney Weaver, Gorillas In the Mist Best Supporting Actor Kevin Kline, A Fish Called Wanda* Alec Guinness, Little Dorrit (87) Martin Landau, Tucker: The Man and His Dreams River Phoenix, Running on Empty Dean Stockwell, Married to the Mob Best Supporting Actress Geena Davis, The Accidental Tourist* Joan Cusack, Working Girl Frances McDormand, Mississippi Burning Michelle Pfeiffer, Dangerous Liaisons Sigourney Weaver, Working Girl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted March 17, 2017 Author Share Posted March 17, 2017 My choice for the Juvenile Acting award for 1988 is… JODHI MAY (Molly Roth), A World Apart* 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted March 17, 2017 Share Posted March 17, 2017 1988 BEST ACTOR Eddie Murphy Coming to America**** John Malkovich Dangerous Liaisons Leslie Nielsen The Naked Gun Dustin Hoffman Rain Man Charles Grodin Midnight Run Forest Whitaker Bird Gene Hackman Mississippi Burning John Neville The Adventures of Baron Munchausen Gerard Depardieu Camille Claudel Robert Duvall Colors Tom Cruise Rain Man Jeremy Irons Dead Ringers Tom Hanks Big Willem Dafoe The Last Temptation of Christ Robert De Niro Midnight Run Eric Bogosian Talk Radio Tom Hulce Dominick & Eugene Ray Liotta Dominick & Eugene Divine Hairspray BEST ACTRESS Glenn Close Dangerous Liaisons**** Jodie Foster The Accused Isabelle Adjani Camille Claudel Susan Sarandon Bull Durham Meryl Streep A Cry in the Dark Sigourney Weaver Gorillas in the Mist Gena Rowlands Another Woman Isabelle Huppert The Story of Women Mare Winningham Miracle Mile Carmen Maura Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown Winona Ryder Heathers BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Arsenio Hall Coming to America**** Alan Rickman Die Hard Philippe Noiret Cinema Paradiso Christopher Walken Biloxi Blues Brad Dourif Mississippi Burning Oliver Reed The Adventures of Baron Munchausen John Ashton Midnight Run George Kennedy The Naked Gun Joe Pantoliano Midnight Run BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Sylvia Sidney Beetlejuice**** Michelle Pfeiffer Dangerous Liaisons Barbara Hershey The Last Temptation of Christ Carol Kane Scrooged Catherine O'Hara Beetlejuice Lena Olin The Unbearable Lightness of Being BEST JUVENILE PERFORMANCE Sarah Polley The Adventures of Baron Munchausen**** Salvatore Cascio Cinema Paradiso 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted March 17, 2017 Author Share Posted March 17, 2017 Here are my choices of the 170 films I've seen from 1988 for… Best Supporting Actress of 1988 1. GEENA DAVIS (Muriel Pritchett), The Accidental Tourist 2. MICHELE PFEIFFER (Madame de Tourvel), Dangerous Liaisons 3. LUDMILA ZAITSEVA (Rita, "Vera's Mother"), Little Vera 4. JOAN CUSAK (Cynthia/‘Cyn’), Working Girl 5. LINDA MVUSI (Elsie), A World Apart 6. BARBARA HERSHEY (Mary Magdelene), The Last Temptation of Christ 7. UMA THURMAN (Cecile de Volanges), Dangerous Liaisons 8. FRANCES MCDORMAND (Mrs. Pell), Mississippi Burning 9. LENA OLIN (Sabina), The Unbearable Lightness of Being 10. KATHLEEN TURNER (Sarah Leary), The Accidental Tourist and ... JOHANNA TER STEEGE (Saskia Wagter), The Vanishing SIGOURNEY WEAVER (Katharine Parker), Working Girl ANITA KANWAR (Rekha Golub, "Manju's mother, the prostitute"), Salaam Bombay! MERCEDES RUEHL (Mrs. Baskin), Big MARIE TRINTIGNANT (Lucie/”Lulu”), Story of Women JULIE CARMEN (Nancy Mondragon), The Milagro Beanfield War ALEXANDRIA TABAKOVA (Lena), Little Vera SWOOSIE KURTZ (Madame de Volanges), Dangerous Liaisons JOANNA CASSIDY (Dolores), Who Framed Roger Rabbit MARIA AITKEN (Wendy Leach), A Fish Called Wanda SANDY DENNIS (Claire), Another Woman JENNIFER TILLY (Mona Lisa), Rented Lips JENNY ROBERTSON (Millie), Bull Durham ANN HEARN (Sally Fraser), The Accused BRENDA VACARRO (Betty Rivers), Heart of Midnight 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted March 17, 2017 Author Share Posted March 17, 2017 (edited) Here are my choices of the 170 films I've seen from 1988 for… Best Supporting Actor of 1988 1. CARLOS RIQUELME (Aramante Cordova), The Milagro Beanfield War 2. YURI NAZAROV (Kolya, "Vera's Father"), Little Vera 3. MARTIN LANDAU (Abe Karatz/Walter Winchell), Tucker: The Man and His Dream 4. ALAN RICKMAN (Hans Gruber), Die Hard 5. JOHN ASHTON (Marvin Dorfler), Midnight Run 6. DEAN STOCKWELL (Tony "the Tiger" Russo), Married to the Mob 7. TODD GRAFF (Larry Higgins), Dominick and Eugene 8. BRAD DOURIF (Deputy Sheriff Clinton Pell), Mississippi Burning 9. HARVEY KEITEL (Judas Iscariot), The Last Temptation of Christ 10. CHRISTOPHER LLOYD (Judge Doom), Who Framed Roger Rabbit and ... DIVINE (Edna Turnblad/Arvin Hodgepile), Hairspray MICHAEL PALIN (Ken Pile), A Fish Called Wanda R. LEE ERMEY (Mayor Tillman), Mississippi Burning JOHN MAHONEY (“Kid” Gleason), Eight Men Out CHRISTOPHER LLOYD (“Sleepy” Bill Burns/”Burnsy”), Eight Men Out ANDRE GREGORY (John the Baptist), The Last Temptation of Christ RAGHUVIR YADAV (Chillum), Salaam Bombay! JARED RUSHTON (Billy Kopecki), Big BRUCE MYLES (Ian Barker, Q.C.), A Cry In the Dark ALEC GUINNESS (Mr. Todd), A Handful of Dust JOE PANTOLIANO (Eddie Moscone), Midnight Run BRYAN BROWN (Bob Campbell), Gorillas In the Mist Edited March 19, 2017 by Bogie56 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swithin Posted March 17, 2017 Share Posted March 17, 2017 1988 Favorites The big movies of 1988 did not impress me, but 1988 did mark the year that I saw my first Terence Davies movie, and it was a revelation. Best Actor Daniel Day-Lewis (The Unbearable Lightness of Being) Hugh Grant (The Lair of the White Worm) Dustin Hoffman (Rain Man) Philippe Noiret (Cinema Paradiso) Pete Postlethwaite (Distant Voices, Still Lives) Best Actress Carmen Maura (Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown) Meryl Streep (A Cry in the Dark) Billie Whitelaw (The Dressmaker) Best Supporting Actor Pete Capaldi (The Lair of the White Worm) Alec Guinness (Little Dorrit) Best Supporting Actress Maria Aitken (A Fish Called Wanda) Amanda Donohoe (The Lair of the White Worm) Freda Dowie (Distant Voices, Still Lives) Miriam Margolyes (Little Dorrit) Joan Plowright (Drowning by Numbers) Best Juvenile Shafiq Syed (Salaam Bombay) Best Musical Scenes Takin’ a Chance on Love sung by Ella Fitzgerald (Distant Voices, Still Lives) The D’Ampton Worm Song (The Lair of the White Worm) 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted March 17, 2017 Author Share Posted March 17, 2017 The New York Film Critics Circle Awards for 1988 were … Best Actor Jeremy Irons, Dead Ringers* Dustin Hoffman, Rain Man Tom Hanks, Big Gene Hackman, Mississippi Burning Best Actress Meryl Streep, A Cry In the Dark* Jodie Foster, The Accused Carmen Maura, Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown Best Supporting Actor Dean Stockwell, Married to the Mob and Tucker: The Man and His Dream* Alec Guinness, Little Dorrit (87) Martin Landau, Tucker: The Man and His Dream Tim Robbins, Bull Durham Best Supporting Actress Diane Venora, Bird* Jodhi May, A World Apart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingrat Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 A few comments on 1988: Best Actor: Tom Hulce, Dominick and Eugene Best Actress: Glenn Close, Dangerous Liaisons. A narrow choice over Meryl Streep, A Cry in the Dark, and Isabelle Huppert, Une affaire des femmes. Best Supporting Actor: Sam Neill, A Cry in the Dark Best Supporting Actress: Geena Davis, The Accidental Tourist Worst translation of the year (one of the worst film title translations ever): Story of Women for Une affaire des femmes. The character played by Isabelle Huppert is about as unrepresentative a woman as can be imagined. The film is the story of one particular woman. A much better title would have been Women's Business, for the main character becomes an abortionist only to make money. I would agree with Danny Peary that Dominick and Eugene is a better film than Rain Man, and that Tom Hulce gives a better performance than Dustin Hoffman. Hoffman was fortunate that Rain Man came out before My Left Foot. Daniel Day Lewis' performance blows away Hoffman's skillful but somewhat actorish work, in my opinion, and it seems unlikely to me that Hoffman would have won his second Oscar had voters had Day Lewis fresh in their minds as the standard Hoffman was expected to meet. A Cry in the Dark offers one of Meryl Streep's best performances. I'm no expert on Australian accents, but she sounds right. She gets extra points for having to wear an unbecoming black wig. A Cry in the Dark is hard to watch, as an unsympathetic woman suffers both the loss of her daughter and a wrongful conviction for homicide. The mother is not only stoic and unemotional, which jurors hate, but she's convinced of her own superiority without much apparent justification for this belief. Perhaps belonging to a fundamentalist church adds to both her sense of superiority and her defensiveness. Her genuine strength comes across as prickliness and lack of feeling. Streep plays this woman from deep inside, and every moment is believable. By the end of the film I believe I know this woman, even if I can't like her, and she refuses to let me pity her. Also admirable, on a somewhat smaller scale, is Sam Neill as her husband. Dominated by his formidable wife, the poor man seems merely the largest of the satellites in orbit around her planet. The film is her story, not their story. If he isn't forceful or important enough to have a story of his own, he does have a scene of his own, as the prosecuting attorney badgers him and beats him down on the witness stand. Neill plays this brilliantly and, more important, truthfully. Not many actors who can play macho romantic leads would be willing to play this henpecked, rather pathetic man. Sam Neill had been terrific as Reilly, Ace of Spies, playing the man who inspired Ian Fleming to create James Bond. Neill never got to play enough of these roles, for my taste, but his performances in A Cry in the Dark and The Piano show what a very fine actor he was. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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JamesStewartFan95 Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 Best PictureBull DurhamDie HardGorillas in the MistGrave of the FirefliesMississippi BurningRain ManRunning on EmptyWho Framed Roger Rabbit?Best DirectorBarry Levinson, Rain ManSidney Lumet, Running on EmptyAlan Parker, Mississippi BurningIsao Takahata, Grave of the FirefliesRobert Zemeckis, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?Best ActorTom Cruise, Rain Man* Gene Hackman, Mississippi Burning*Dustin Hoffman, Rain Man*River Phoenix, Running On Empty*Charlie Sheen, Eight Men Out* Jeff Bridges, Tucker: Man and His Dream; Willem Dafoe, Mississippi Burning; Divine, Hairspray; Tom Hanks, Big; Bob Hoskins, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?; Eddie Murphy, Coming to America; Bruce Willis, Die HardBest ActressJuliette Binoche, The Unbearable Lightness of Being*Melanie Griffith, Working Girl* Christine Lahti, Running On Empty*Susan Sarandon, Bull Durham*Meryl Streep, A Cry in the Dark* Ricki Lake, Hairspray; Winona Ryder, Heathers; Sigourney Weaver, Gorillas in the MistBest Supporting Actor John Cleese, A Fish Called Wanda*Brad Dourif, Mississippi Burning*Judd Hirsch, Running On Empty*Harvey Keitel, The Last Temptation of Christ*Alan Rickman, Die Hard* Keith David, They Live; Jeffrey Jones, Beetlejuice; Christopher Lloyd, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?; Michael Palin, A Fish Called Wanda; Glenn Shaddix, Beetlejuice; Christian Slater, Heathers Best Supporting ActressRuth Brown, Hairspray* Joanna Cassidy, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?*Barbara Hershey, The Last Temptation of Christ*Frances McDormand, Mississippi Burning*Sylvia Sidney, Beetlejuice* Shannen Doherty, Heathers; Valeria Golino, Rain Man; Mercedes Ruehl, BigBest Juvenile PerformanceMayim Bialik, BeachesNicholas Phillips, ScroogedJared Rushton, BigBest SongColors, Colors 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted March 18, 2017 Author Share Posted March 18, 2017 The Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards for 1988 were … Best Actor Tom Hanks, Big and Punchline* Gene Hackman, Mississippi Burning, Bat 21, Another Woman, Split Decisions and Full Moon In Blue Water Best Actress Christine Lahti, Running on Empty* Diane Venora, Bird Best Supporting Actor Alec Guinness, Little Dorrit* (87) Martin Landau, Tucker: The Man and His Dream Best Supporting Actresses Genevieve Bujold, Dead Ringers and The Moderns* Miriam Margoyles, Little Dorrit (87) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoraSmith Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 ACTOR: 1. Dustin Hoffman - Rain Man 2. Gene Hackman - Mississippi Burning 3. Philippe Noiret - Cinema Paradiso 4. Eddie Murphy - Coming to America5. John Cleese - A Fish Called Wanda6. Tom Cruise - Rain Man 7. Leslie Nielsen - The Naked Gun8. Steve Martin - Dirty Rotten Scoundrels9. Daniel Day-Lewis - The Unbearable Lightness of Being 10. Klaus Maria Brandauer - Hanussen ACTRESS:1. Jodie Foster - The Accused2. Melanie Griffith - Working Girl 3. Gena Rowlands - Another Woman 4. Isabelle Huppert - Story of Women 5. Sigourney Weaver - Gorillas in the Mist6. Juliette Binoche - The Unbearable Lightness of Being7. Kelly McGillis - The Accused 8. Jamie Lee Curtis - A Fish Called Wanda9. Isabelle Adjani - Camille Claudel 10. Elisabeth Shue - Cocktail SUPPORTING ACTOR: 1. Brad Dourif - Mississippi Burning 2. Matti Pellonpää - Ariel 3. Michael Palin - A Fish Called Wanda 4. Bryan Brown - Cocktail 5. Harrison Ford - Working Girl 6. Derek de Lint - The Unbearable Lightness of Being 7. Alec Baldwin - Talk Radio 8. O. J. Simpson - The Naked Gun SUPPORTING ACTRESS: 1. Michelle Pfeiffer - Dangerous Liaisons 2. Frances McDormand - Mississippi Burning3. Sigourney Weaver - Working Girl4. Rossy de Palma - Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 5. Valeria Golino - Rain Man 6. Mia Farrow - Another Woman 7. Uma Thurman - Dangerous Liaisons8. Melanie Griffith - The Milagro Beanfield War JUVENILE: Salvatore Cascio - Cinema Paradiso BEST EXTRA: Barry Levinson - Rain Man BEST ANIMAL PERFORMANCE: Digit - Gorillas in the Mist BEST DOLL PERFORMANCE: Chucky - Child's Play BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: Enneo & Andrea Morricone - Cinema Paradiso BEST NON-ORIGINAL SONG: A Groovy Kind of Love (Phil Collins in Buster) BEST ORIGINAL SONG: Let the River Run (Carly Simon in Working Girl) BEST QUOTE: "I get my boxer shorts at K-Mart in Cincinnati." (Rain Man) 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted March 18, 2017 Author Share Posted March 18, 2017 1988 JUVENILE: Salvatore Cascio - Cinema Paradiso Perhaps I was the butt of a bizarre practical joke. I was in an Italian restaurant in Covent Garden not long ago and the waiter told me his busboy was none other that Toto Cascio from Cinema Paradiso. He would have been about the right age but was no longer good looking. When I returned home I looked Cascio up on the imdb and saw that he is still working occasionally in Italy and not very likely to be a busboy in London. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted March 18, 2017 Author Share Posted March 18, 2017 (edited) Here are my choices of the 170 films I've seen from 1988 for… Best Actress of 1988 1. JODIE FOSTER (Sarah Tobias), The Accused 2. NATALYA NEGODA (Vera), Little Vera 3. ISABELLE ADJANI (Camille Claudel), Camille Claudel 4. MERYL STREEP (Alice Lyn “Lindy” Chamberlain), A Cry In the Dark 5. SIGOURNEY WEAVER (Dian Fossey), Gorillas In the Mist 6. JULIETTE BINOCHE (Tereza), The Unbearable Lightness of Being 7. MELANIE GRIFFITH (Tess McGill), Working Girl 8. ISABELLE HUPPERT (Marie-Jeanne Latour), Story of Women 9. MICHELE PFEIFFER (Angela Maria Gianelli DeMarco), Married to the Mob 10. GLENN CLOSE (Marquise de Merteuil), Dangerous Liaisons and ... DIANE VENORA (Chan Richardson Parker), Bird GENEVIEVE BUJOLD (Claire Newveau), Dead Ringers CARMEN MAURA (Pepa Marcos), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown JODHI MAY (Molly Roth), A World Apart SUSAN SARANDON (Annie Savoy), Bull Durham BARBARA HERSHEY (Diana Roth), A World Apart GINA ROWLANDS (Marion Post), Another Woman JULIA ROBERTS (Daisy Arujo), Mystic Pizza JAMIE LEE CURTIS (Wanda Gershwitz), A Fish Called Wanda CHRISTINE LAHTI (Annie Pope), Running on Empty WINONA RYDER (Veronica Sawyer), Heathers JENNIFER JASON LEIGH (Carol Rivers), Heart of Midnight NOBU MCCARTHY (Masi), The Wash IMOGEN STUBBS (Megan David), A Summer Story SHIRLEY MACLAINE (“Madame” Irena Sousatzka), Madame Sousatzka KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS (Brenda Last), A Handful of Dust KELLY MCGILLIS (Emily Crane), The House on Carroll Street ELIZABETH PERKINS (Susan Lawrence), Big CASSANDRA PETERSON (Elvira/Aunt Morgana Talbot), Elvira, Mistress of the Dark Edited March 19, 2017 by Bogie56 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted March 18, 2017 Author Share Posted March 18, 2017 Here are my choices of the 170 films I've seen from 1988 for… Best Actor of 1988 1. JEREMY IRONS (Beverly "Bev" Mantle/Eliott "Elly" Mantle), Dead Ringers 2. WILLEM DAFOE (Jesus Christ/Jesus of Nazareth/”Master”/”King of the Jews”), The Last Temptation of Christ 3. TOM HANKS (Joshua Baskin), Big 4. ROBERT DE NIRO (Jack Walsh/”F.B.I. Agent Alonzo Mosely”), Midnight Run 5. GENE HACKMAN (FBI agent, Rupert Anderson), Mississippi Burning 6. KEVIN KLINE (Otto West), A Fish Called Wanda 7. FOREST WHITAKER (Charles “Charlie” Christopher Parker, Jr./”Bird”), Bird 8. ERIC BOGOSIAN (Barry Champlain/”Barry Golden”), Talk Radio 9. JOHN MALKOVICH (Vicomte de Valmont), Dangerous Liaisons 10. SAM NEILL (Michael Chamberlain), A Cry In the Dark and ... TOM HULCE (Dominick Luciano/"Nicky"), Dominick and Eugene RAY LIOTTA (Eugene Luciano/”Gene”), Dominick and Eugene BOB HOSKINS (Eddie Valiant), Who Framed Roger Rabbit HARRISON FORD (Dr. Richard Walker), Frantic TIM ROBBINS (Ebby Calvin “Nuke” LaLoosh), Bull Durham CHARLES GRODIN (Jonathan Mardukas/”the Duke”), Midnight Run TOM CRUISE (Charlie Babbitt), Rain Man DON AMECHE (Gino/”Mr. Johnson”), Things Change JAMES WILBY (Tony Last), A Handful of Dust DANIEL DAY-LEWIS (Tomas), The Unbearable Lightness of Being DUSTIN HOFFMAN (Raymond Babbitt), Rain Man JOHN NEVILLE (Baron Hieronymus Karl Friedrich von Munchausen),The Adventures of Baron Munchausen 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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