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Congratulations: Julian Moore Celebrates 60 | Israel today

2020-12-02T22:05:55.880Z


| TheaterThe wonderful actress is celebrating a birthday tomorrow - a great time to remember her greatest roles, from "Short Pictures" of Altman to "Still Alice" 1. Short pictures Julian Moore's breakthrough role (in Robert Altman's masterpiece, based on the stories of Raymond Carver), placed her at the heart of a dream ensemble and required her to present an emotional and hyperactive monologue as she


The wonderful actress is celebrating a birthday tomorrow - a great time to remember her greatest roles, from "Short Pictures" of Altman to "Still Alice"

1. Short pictures

Julian Moore's breakthrough role (in Robert Altman's masterpiece, based on the stories of Raymond Carver), placed her at the heart of a dream ensemble and required her to present an emotional and hyperactive monologue as she stood half-naked and dried her skirt, on which she poured wine.

The fearless Moore - who was already in her thirties - did not blink, turning her handful of scenes into a business card that upgraded her status in Hollywood overnight.

Altman said in interviews that when he offered Moore the bold and challenging role not only did she respond immediately but she also immediately added, "I have a bonus for you: I'm a real redhead."

Which is true.



2. "Safe" (1995 "

Moore's first collaboration with director Todd Haynes was her first lead role and yielded what is still considered by many to be one of her best performances.

Moore plays a suburban housewife who begins to suffer from an extreme and unclear allergic reaction to her environment.

The result is a stylish, chilling and effective satire on consumerism and capitalism, which is becoming a horror film.

Thanks to the feelings of isolation, alienation and helplessness of the film's protagonist, who is closing herself off from the world around her (while falling apart to pieces), "Safe" is also enjoying a renewed refinement in the Corona era.

A real gem and not known enough.



3. "Boogie Nights" (1997)

Moore picked up her first Oscar nomination for her role as a maternal (and super sexy) porn star in the dizzying film of Paul Thomas Anderson (which deals with the rise and fall of a young actor in the adult film industry in Los Angeles in the late 1970s).

Amber Waves, the charismatic and coquettish amateur character she plays, is on the fringes most of the time (still, Dirk Digler is the star here) but her virtuoso performance, moving skillfully and uninhibitedly between physical striptease and mental striptease, creates a complex and contradictory character in the film, claiming And with emotion.  



4. Big Lebowski (1998)

The Cohen brothers' ingenious cult film allowed Moore to demonstrate her comedic skills and prove that she also knows how to fool around.

Her iconic character, the wealthy feminist artist Maude Lebowski (the daughter of the great Lebowski), was based by Moore on Yoko Ono and artist Crawley Schneimann, who also, like Maude, used to paint while swinging naked from a ceiling-mounted fixture.

The outrageous authority with which she explains to the Dude about nihilistic punk, her uncontrollable giggles as she talks on the phone with Sandro from the Biennale, the way she tells our protagonist that she is plotting to get pregnant from him (and the way our protagonist reacts) - as opposed to her more serious films, Moore's performance here It's 100 percent fun. 



5. Magnolia (1999)

Another electrifying and mesmerizing ensemble performance in which Shemor appears to increase the intensity of her emotions to 11 and becomes a hurricane of drama.

In her second collaboration with Paul Thomas Anderson, Moore plays Linda Partridge, the beautiful and drugged wife of an elderly TV producer dying of cancer.

Between a meeting with the family lawyer and a visit to the pharmacy, Linda is attacked with guilt and retaliates in her heart to end her life.

The hysterical, tearful and memorable monologue she carries before the arrogant pharmacist who delivers the drugs (with the help of which she seeks suicide) is easily one of the pinnacles of her career.



6. Away from Heaven (2002)

2002 was a record year for Moore.

In addition to her role alongside Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman in Stephen Daldry's "The Hours," which earned her an Oscar nomination in the supporting actress category, she also earned another Oscar nomination in the lead actress category for her delicate and heartbreaking performance in the brilliant melodrama "Away from Heaven."

Inspired by Douglas Sirk's films, director Todd Haynes tells the story of a 1950s housewife in Connecticut whose seemingly perfect life begins to crumble.

While the film touches on issues such as homosexuality, racism and social status.

The result is beautiful and painfully sad.

Just like Moore's character in this movie.



7. Still Alice (2014)

After four Oscar nominations that ended in nothing (her fourth nomination went to the period drama "The End of the Novel" from 1999), Moore finally won the coveted Oscar for her performance in "Still Alice."

True, this is not really an amazing film like the other films on this list, but Moore - who plays Alice, a professor of linguistics who suffers from Alzheimer's at the age of 50 - does a great job here, which is amazing to correspond with her early role in "Safe".

The script lacks sentimentality and it is good to present the way Alice and her family deal with the terrible diagnosis, and watching her mental collapse is similar to watching a flower slowly wither away.

You will not find here any surprises or sensational insights, but it is hard to remain indifferent.

And Moore - in a minimalist and introverted role for a change - is more exciting than ever.

Source: israelhayom

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