who are your favorite actors/actresses? (and recommend movies)
 

who are your favorite actors/actresses from the 90s to now? I was having this discussion with some friends yesterday and I came with this Top 5 list more or less in that order:

Edward Norton
Forest Whitaker
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Gary Oldman
Benicio del Toro


with Jeremy Irons and John Turturro very close

Actresses (in no particular order):

Lili Taylor
Gina Gershon
Jennifer Connelly
Salma Hayek
Cate Blanchett

what's yours?

by the way, I need movies recommendations! I mostly like comedy, action and historical drama, but open to suggestions, let me hear it! :thumbsup

good choices already, i'll add Robert Downey Jr.

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yes, I named him yesterday and forgot today :)

I'll throw in Deniro in Casino and Good Fellas and Denzel in Training Day and American Gangster

not in order-
Anthony Hopkins - Human Stain,Copola's Dracula
Brad Pitt - Snatch, Fight Club
Michael Madsen - Resevoir Dogs
Steve Buscemi - Resevoir Dogs, Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead
Bruce Campbell - all Evil Dead movies, Bubba Ho-Tep
Harvey Keitel - Resevoir Dogs, Bad Lieutenant, Copland

femmes
Kate Blanchett - skeleton key
Beatrice Dahl - Betty Blue
Alyssa Milano
Lili Taylor - I Shot Andy Warhol
Penelope Cruz - Blow, Gothica

Eddie Murphy - one of the funniest.

OK, I'll add some movies as I wait for some input, lol

Ghost Dogg
I saw it again last week, fucking amazing. If you like it, you might want to see another by the same director (Jim Jarmush): Dead Man. It's a very strange movie, the kind that if I knew before hand what it was about I'd never watch. Happily, I did it. It has a lot of resemblances to Ghost Dogg, only that this one is long, black and white, probably no more than 500 words through the whole movie and Neil Young plays the guitar throughout the whole movie, always the same pattern with some variations. And the result is amazing.

Repo Men
Saw it a couple days ago, very good if you like action movies with a twist

Pride and Glory
Rented it 2 days ago, very nice movie. And it has Edward Norton. btw, just in case you didn't watch them, you must see American History X, The Illusionist and The Score

Tom Cruise in Collateral. In anything else, I can't really handle him, but he fuckin' stole Collateral with his performance.


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Arnold Swarzewhat in Kindergarten Cop. Amazing piece of film making.

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you might want to watch REPO - The Genetic Opera.
Its the same movie basically as Repo Men, but a rock musical...weird and amusing and gory.

and i would most highly reccommend RepoMAN by Alex Cox...one of the greats.

no doubt, that movie is genius really. great film, great acting.

That's the reason why I don't have any friends... so I don't get involved in such pointless discussions.

Samuel L. Jackson.

Some of his better ones, off top of my head:

- Pulp Fiction
- Unthinkable
- Black Snake Moan
- Sphere
- A Time to Kill
- One Eight Seven

"Ghost Dog" really is such a great movie and IMHO everybody should read the book "hagakure".. so much for that.
Favorite actors (no particular order):

Forest Whitaker
Bruce Campbell
Al Pacino
Johnny Depp
Tom Hanks

Great choices! Add Anthony Hopkins and Kevin Spacey (have you seen "The Usual Suspects"? Friggin' great!) and you've got an even better list!