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Mainstream actors in arty/culty fare

Started by clingfilm portent, August 03, 2021, 03:32:20 PM

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Brundle-Fly

Quote from: non capisco on August 03, 2021, 04:50:09 PM
Jim Davidson in Greenaway's 'A Zed And Two Noughts' is a very odd one.

He's hardly a mainstream actor.

non capisco

He was certainly the sort of mainstream entertainer in the 80s you wouldn't expect to find in an oblique arthouse film by a prominent gay auteur. Bit like if the climax of a Leigh Bowery performance suddenly involved Mike Reid.


Dusty Substance


He's all but derailed his career now but remember when Bruce Willis would take a few chances and appear in films directed by Terry Gilliam, Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson and Rian Johnson? Even the two big M. Night films was taking a bit of a risk.

I miss that Bruce Willis.

Sebastian Cobb

Quote from: peanutbutter on August 04, 2021, 12:55:26 AM
Colin Farrell does decent dabbles, see he's in the new Kogonada film.

Rachel Weisz has very effectively straddled the lines between mainstream and quite arty pretty much her whole career. To the point her filmography looks like she's deliberately trying to keep an equal balance.

Came in to mention Farell and John C. Reilly being in The Lobster, which Weisz is also in.

Reilly  also has some uuncharacteristically serious parts in PTA films.

Sebastian Cobb

Quote from: Midas on August 03, 2021, 06:54:34 PM
Joaquin Phoenix has probably been in something worth watching. Her was quite good. You Were Never Really Here was ok.

The Master

Sebastian Cobb

Sam Neill's been in some big stuff like Jurassic Park but also did things like Posession, In the Mouth of Madness and Until the end of the World.

Noodle Lizard

Quote from: Sebastian Cobb on August 04, 2021, 11:58:35 AM
Came in to mention Farell and John C. Reilly being in The Lobster, which Weisz is also in.

Reilly  also has some uuncharacteristically serious parts in PTA films.

He sort of started out being a "serious" actor, though. His smaller PTA appearances were probably what got him the most attention in the first place, before pivoting to becoming a mainstream comedy star. He's still pretty consistently turning up in "passion projects" - I think I read that he does Steve Brule for free, and probably lent his time to Entertainment as well (which Michael Cera also turns up in).

Also, Tye Sheridan seems very engaged in lower-budget/arthouse fare for someone who starred in a massive Spielberg movie (Ready Player One). Good head on his shoulders, that one.

Midas


Brundle-Fly

Quote from: non capisco on August 04, 2021, 10:25:48 AM
He was certainly the sort of mainstream entertainer in the 80s you wouldn't expect to find in an oblique arthouse film by a prominent gay auteur.

I forgot about his sit-coms too. I'll let you off. ; )

Brundle-Fly

Bruce Forsyth in Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? (1969)

Slightly off OP but I've just discovered Brucie appeared in an episode of Magnum P.I. in 1986. It's a shame I don't host pub quizzes.

dissolute ocelot

I know he started out in lower-budget films, but Ewan Macgregor in Young Adam right after Down With Love and Attack of the Clones. (Alongside Tilda Swinton who does a lot of both blockbusters like Dr Strange and arthouse.)

In his peak, Robin Askwith was in Lindsay Anderson's state-of-the-nation allegorical follow-up to If and O Lucky Man, Britannia Hospital (alongside Fulton Mackay and Mark Hamill!).

In smaller markets like Scotland it's pretty common to mix mainstream TV with small films or theatre so there's low-budget Scottish films like Blue Black Permanent or Orphans that are packed with people off the telly.

Ballad of Ballard Berkley


Sebastian Cobb

Quote from: dissolute ocelot on August 06, 2021, 02:57:29 PM
I know he started out in lower-budget films, but Ewan Macgregor in Young Adam right after Down With Love and Attack of the Clones. (Alongside Tilda Swinton who does a lot of both blockbusters like Dr Strange and arthouse.)

In his peak, Robin Askwith was in Lindsay Anderson's state-of-the-nation allegorical follow-up to If and O Lucky Man, Britannia Hospital (alongside Fulton Mackay and Mark Hamill!).

In smaller markets like Scotland it's pretty common to mix mainstream TV with small films or theatre so there's low-budget Scottish films like Blue Black Permanent or Orphans that are packed with people off the telly.

I guess there's a few Danny Boyle's outside Trainspotting too although didn't he get the hump when Boyle started using DeCaprio more?

Southland Tales, for all its faults, is an arty film with a very starry mainstream cast.

mothman

Quote from: Sebastian Cobb on August 06, 2021, 03:12:17 PM
I guess there's a few Danny Boyle's outside Trainspotting too although didn't he get the hump when Boyle started using DeCaprio more?

I think the studio insisted Boyle cast DiCaprio in The Beach, and McGregor wanted the part and was miffed that Boyle either acquiesced without a fight, or at all. They've made up since - sometime before the Trainspotting sequel.

dissolute ocelot

Tom Hanks in Cloud Atlas. Although maybe that was meant to be a hit or Oscar winner.

holyzombiejesus

Not particularly arty but was very surprised when grubby UK porno actor Ben Dover appeared in Paweł Pawlikowski's Last Resort.

non capisco

Quote from: holyzombiejesus on August 08, 2021, 09:55:55 PM
Not particularly arty but was very surprised when grubby UK porno actor Ben Dover appeared in Paweł Pawlikowski's Last Resort.

I spent half that film thinking "That guy's a ringer for Ben Dover[nb]or Keith Harris sans Orville[/nb]" before realising it was the 'orrible bastard.

Mary Steenburgen in Inland Empire



Bill Owen in O Lucky Man!





Ignatius_S

Quote from: mrClaypole on August 17, 2021, 06:57:21 PM

Wtf!.

I don't know how many times I've watched that clip now... and every time I say exactly that.

Ignatius_S

Quote from: Smeraldina Rima on August 09, 2021, 12:35:29 AM]
Bill Owen in O Lucky Man!



Fun fact - Owen had worked with Lindsey Anderson at the Royal Court in at least two productions, which the former got rave reviews. One of them was later made into a film, In Celebration (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Celebration) - James Bolam, also in that still, was also in the stage production and the film (although I think he joined the cast during the first run).

Not film, but I like this bit of trivia - Owen was the first actor to play Mack The Knife in an UK production of The Threepenny Opera.

ElTwopo

Quote from: Ignatius_S on August 17, 2021, 07:44:33 PM
I don't know how many times I've watched that clip now... and every time I say exactly that.

People say the Pacino/De Niro scene in Heat is amazing, but Malkovich/Davidson is infinitely more entertaining.

Povidone

Enjoyed Willem Defoe in The Hunter, a bleak little film that quietly appeared on netflix one day.

Peter Stormare has gone back to his native Sweden a few times to appear in smaller films, presumably to get away from playing 'comedy' russians. Including one of my all time favourite horrors: Marianne

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1756615/

It's about sleep paralysis, ghosts, folklore and the mundane desolation of manhood. Terrifying, I fucking love this film. The poster really doesnt capture the feel of it at all though, such is movie marketing.

mojo filters

Buffalo Soldiers (2001) was pretty niche and very sadly a commercial flop, but starred Joaquin Phoenix, Ed Harris and Anna Paquin.

Nevertheless a brilliant film, based on a great book. Now the DVD is seemingly available for around £2!