TOP FILM PERFORMANCES

You know, those scenes where craft of the acting transforms you into a magical realm.

For a brain jog, try
http://www.time.com/time/2005/100movies/0,23220,performances,00.html

http://www.filmsite.org/100greatperformances.html

Mine are the ending of the Deer Hunter with the wake of Nick and the friends who survived him sang “God bless America,”



a scene from “Rob Roy” by Jessica Lange pleading with her cousin not to tell her husband she had been raped by the man hunting him.

De niro (throughout the entire film) Taxi Driver.



Bette Davis during a bumpy night in “All about Eve,”



Kenneth Branagh in Henry V, Saint Crispin’s day speech..,,,,(frankly with the speech itself being just about the most rousing words ever written in English) the speech could be spoken by Rocky Balboa and sound good,




Gene Kelly, twice once for the “Singing in the Rain” scene from the eponymous movie and the finale in an “American in Paris.”