Shelley Duvall
Added 2024-07-12 13:00:17 +0000 UTCFavorite Shelley performance? I think you all know mine.
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I'd have to go with the consensus here in 3 Women. Hilariously funny in her naivete but also quite sad in her moments of desperation. A very intimate performance. Really need to see Poyeye and Thieves Like Us.
Stephen
2024-07-12 21:58:17 +0000 UTCYou can’t beat 3 women for me. It’s an amazing surreal movie with subtlety and the whole spectrum of emotions in her performance. She also wrote most of her own dialogue which is next level. RIP to a legend!
Scott
2024-07-12 20:04:28 +0000 UTCThe Shining. A nervous breakdown on screen.
Matt C
2024-07-12 19:14:19 +0000 UTC3 Women is the obvious answer but she was born to play Olive Oyl!
Dan
2024-07-12 19:09:29 +0000 UTCObviously, she was phenomenal in 3 Women. But I’m also rather partial to her performance as Susan Frankenstein in Tim Burton’s short film, Frankenweenie.
TenzingNorgay82
2024-07-12 17:33:01 +0000 UTC3 Women. She perfectly portrays a confident yet vulnerable woman with a ton of subtle humor, sadness and creepiness throughout.
Shane Palamara
2024-07-12 16:06:13 +0000 UTCI haven’t seen The Shining in nearly 15 years, but I remember hating her performance. I can’t wait to watch it again to see if my opinion changes
Henri J. Mertens
2024-07-12 15:02:19 +0000 UTCI once had a friend that thought she was awful in The Shining. We’re not friends anymore.
Ken
2024-07-12 14:30:46 +0000 UTCIt’s a toss-up between The Shining and 3 Women because they both showcase her range remarkably well. In general, 3 Women is a wildly overlooked Altman film. I mean, it’s a masterpiece, and to see her perform against Spacek is a reward in itself
Drew Perkins
2024-07-12 14:23:42 +0000 UTCRest in peace :( She's incredible in The Shining, but yeah I think it has to go to 3 Women
Edward Looney
2024-07-12 14:01:00 +0000 UTCI don’t know if I can call a favorite yet. She was great in 3 Women of course but I also need to see her in Thieves Like Us and Brewster McCloud. But I would like to defend her performance in The Shining, which over the years has been a divisive one. Many people find her to be annoyingly shrill in that movie, often to the point of rooting for her to die. In fact, I she gives the most authentic, grounded, and yes, even touching performance in the movie. She’s completely believable as a docile yet supportive housewife in the first half of the movie. Many Gen-Xers I know tell me she reminds them of their own mother growing up. But when the supernatural elements begin to take hold and everyone around her becomes in thrall to them, her performance increasingly becomes a trembling, histrionic raw nerve of anxiety, and I always found it sympathetic to behold. With those oversized eyes hers, she has the perfect face for being frightened. But even when things around her start going to hell, she keeps her wits about her, far more than most heroines I’ve seen in horror movies. If people have a problem with how she behaves over the course of the movie, I’d like to see how they react in a scenario where the man they love has gone murderously psycho and ghosts start showing up in the house you’re trapped in.
Bennett Oliver
2024-07-12 13:48:10 +0000 UTCI think we both agree that it's 3 Women. I love her in The Shining and also her brief role in Annie Hall but she was absolutely mesmerizing as Millie to where no other actress could've done as well.
Wolfman Brandon
2024-07-12 13:08:52 +0000 UTC
