Jodie Foster was nominated at fourteen for Taxi Driver and won Best Actress twice, for The Accused and The Silence of the Lambs, which is an unusual trajectory for a child performer.
Clarice Starling is the performance that lasts, and its power is that she plays competence undermined constantly by everyone around her instead of by the killer.
She graduated from Yale in literature while working, and has directed four features and extensive television including Black Mirror and Orange Is the New Black.
Nell and Contact fill out the 1990s, and True Detective brought a late television lead. She has been notably private about her personal life throughout.
Albert BrooksTaxi Driver (1976) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Schrader wrote it living in his car after a divorce, and the film never once steps outside Travis Bickle's head. The narration sounds reasonable. That is the horror.
Anthony HealdAn FBI trainee consults imprisoned cannibal Hannibal Lecter to catch a serial killer skinning his victims. The Silence of the Lambs is Jonathan Demme's 1991 American psychological-thriller film adapted from Thomas Harris's 1988 novel, depicting an FBI trainee who consults…
Chiwetel EjioforSpike Lee's 2006 Manhattan bank heist. Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Build.
Jodie FosterNeil Jordan's 2007 NYC vigilante film. Jodie Build as a radio host transformed by trauma.
Barbara HarrisFreaky Friday is the body-swap premise Disney has now adapted four times across nearly fifty years. Mary Rodgers wrote the 1972 novel.
James WoodsContact is a film about a scientist so committed to empirical evidence that she rejects faith, who then has a transcendent personal experience, returns with no physical evidence it occurred, and is expected by the film to continue believing in…
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