My Best Performance: Helen Mirren

[Spinal]

I give you an actor.

You tell me which movie contains their best performance. You get one vote.

Discussion might happen.

After a day or so, the votes are counted. I announce the winning performance.

We then move on to somebody else.

Previous decisions:
Robert De Niro - Raging Bull
Kate Winslet - Heavenly Creatures
Toshiro Mifune - Throne of Blood
Meryl Streep - Adaptation
Michael Keaton - Beetlejuice
Penelope Cruz - Volver
Charlie Chaplin - The Gold Rush
Julianne Moore - Safe
Forest Whitaker - Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Ingrid Bergman - Notorious
Humphrey Bogart - In a Lonely Place
Liv Ullmann - Scenes From a Marriage
Johnny Depp - Ed Wood
Nicole Kidman - To Die For
John Turturro - Quiz Show
Helena Bonham Carter - Fight Club
Christopher Walken - The Deer Hunter

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v696/joel_harmon/helen_mirren_zps72a48605.jpg
What's my best performance?

[EyesWideOpen]

Gosford Park

[chrisnu]

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, & Her Lover

[Winston*]

The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover.

Special mention to her performances in some of those old BBC Shakespeares.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeobLDf8Nu4 Skip to 1:58.

[Hugh_Grant]

The Queen

Gosford Park is a close second.

[dreamdead]

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, & Her Lover

Love Gosford Park, but everyone is basically reduced to a supporting role there. She's more central in Greenaway's film.

[Ezee E]

She's fine and all, but I can't really pick out a performance from her that I am truly amazed by. I abstain here...

[Spinal]

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover

HM: The Madness of King George

[Raiders]

The Last Station

Truly a case of a mediocre film elevated immensely by an amazing performance.

[Grouchy]

CTWL

[Skitch]

She's fine and all, but I can't really pick out a performance from her that I am truly amazed by. I abstain here...

I'm abstaining as well. I really like her but feel I haven't seen enough of her well known performances to judge properly.

[Yxklyx]

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover

[Spinal]

Match Cut says my best performance is ...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v696/joel_harmon/ku-xlarge_zpsef9ab2b5.jpg
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

[MadMan]

"Cannibal." I'm amused that the image Spinal chose is kind of a huge spoiler. But its all good. I love that performance. My pick would have been The Long Good Friday.