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Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
A Must See For Montgomery Clift's Performance.
This film contains one of the best screen performances I have ever seen. Montgomery Clift plays a Man who was a victim of the Nazis need to sterilize those who were viewed as mentally incompetent. His performance is full of pathos and pain and it shows how Human Beings are capable of destroying other lives with deadly and insensitive ease. Clift starts out friendly and nervous on the witness stand, yet later on has a complete breakdown on the witness stand. One can see the pain and torment in Clift's eyes and even though he is only in the film for 10 minutes it's his performance that stands out. Clift was nominated for this film, yet did not win. Clift never won an Oscar and that fact alone should be proof enough of what a sham the academy awards really are.
A Time of Destiny (1988)
William Hurt- A performance that transcends this Film.
A Time of Destiny is a very melodramatic film, some might even compare it to a soap opera albeit a very good one. It does have one thing that makes the film captivating to watch and that's William Hurt's performance as Martin. He plays a man who is an outsider to his family. A man that has no emotional connections with anyone and has been living with suppressed pain for so long. This performance is one of the most heart breaking and painful performances I have ever seen and I can't imagine it not haunting any viewer who can see and understand the situation. We see a man filled with so much inner turmoil and pain that he feels vengeance is the only way to salvage it. If there is any such thing as a flawless performance then William Hurt has given it here. It's without a doubt his best.