The Visitor's Richard Jenkins is one of my favorite people to see in a movie - which is good because he appears in so many of them. And while his small roles tend to shine through and make each movie that he is in better, I was so excited that he finally got a leading role that showcased his amazing talent with last year's The Visitor.I think A.O. Scott got it right when he wrote:
and Mr. Jenkins, a durable character actor known to HBO subscribers as the spectral father on “Six Feet Under,” plays his repressed, circumspect character with exquisite tact. Walter loses his composure only once, and even then Mr. Jenkins keeps the outburst within the boundaries of his shy, professorial temperament.
Do check out a scene from the The Visitor below in honor of Mr. Jenkins' birthday!
The list of all the Oscar nominees is below but I just wanted to put up a special post congratulating Richard Jenkins of The Visitor (a Participant film) for his Best Actor nod!
Way to go! Not only does Mr. Jenkins give a great performance in the film - hopefully more people will see The Visitor now and learn about the awful reality of detention centers.
Check out a scene from the film below and then takepart with The Visitor's social action campaign.
We at TakePart love Richard Jenkins (and I am wishing him Oscar nomination luck tomorrow even though the Best Actor category is pretty stacked) so I was excited to read that he and another one of my favorite people, Bradley Whitford (Josh Lyman from The West Wing) are all set to star in a horror film..!?The project, The Cabin in the Woods, is headed by Joss Whedon and Cloverfield writer Drew Goddard. If you are wondering why two older white men were cast in a horror film, Whedon and Goddard have a plan:
the "Cabin" story line provides a new twist on a classic scenario -- in this case the young-people-stranded-in-the-woods horror trope. "It's really just your basic typecasting: When you need two actors to run through the woods in low-cut nighties, you immediately think of Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford," Goddard joked. Whedon said the casting signals what kind of movie they are hoping to make. "They're the first proof that though 'The Cabin in the Woods' is a classic horror film, it isn't one you've seen before."
I for one am excited and have a feeling this may be the first horror film I see in the theaters in quite some time.And on the note of Richard Jenkins, takepart to get involved with the social action campaign for his film The Visitor.
There were some great performances this past year on the big screen. Below are my top 10. The list mixes starring and supporting performances, male and female roles and American and foreign films. I also decided not rank the list and put it in alphabetical order by the performers last name. And of course this list is just a small sample of the year's best performances - so if I missed yours, let me know what it is in the comments.
Also be sure to takepart and read up on the potential SAG strike, which could change how many performances we see next year.
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Asia Argento in Boarding Gate, Mother of Tears and The Last Mistress
Miss. Argentolit up the screen multiple times this year. The look on her face at the end of Boarding Gate sold the entire film for me and her turn in The Last Mistress is truly amazing. She is beautiful, but beauty doesn't account for the magnetism she gave us in 2008.
We at TakePart love Richard Jenkins (and I am wishing him Oscar nomination luck tomorrow even though the Best Actor category is pretty stacked) so I was excited to read that he and another one of my favorite people, Bradley Whitford (Josh Lyman from The West Wing) are all set to star in a horror film..!?The project, The Cabin in the Woods, is headed by Joss Whedon and Cloverfield writer Drew Goddard. If you are wondering why two older white men were cast in a horror film, Whedon and Goddard 
