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Hide the ideas, but so that people find them. The most important will be the most hidden. \u2013 Robert Bresson
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German actor Franz Rogowski delivered the best performance of 2023 as an egotistical, controlling film director who loses control of his own life in Ira Sachs\u2019\u00a0Passages<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. <\/strong>Yet, there were many other remarkable performances in 2023, which I notated in\u00a0Traveling Boy Selects Top Films From 2023<\/em><\/a> and <\/a>Beyond the Films of 2023<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, let\u2019s keep the accolades going, which should begin with Greta Lee\u2019s soul searching South Korean-American wife in\u00a0Past Lives,<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and continue with Cillian Murphy in the tile role in Oppenheimer<\/em><\/strong> as the conflicted, haunted and womanizing J. Robert Oppenheimer, and his friendly colleague, but really an adversary, the self-aggrandizing Lewis Strauss, played by Robert Downey Jr.; and the less than conflicted Robert De Niro’s William King Hale, the real killer in the\u00a0Killers of the Flower<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong>s Moon<\/em><\/strong>, Julianne Moore\u2019s despised and wounded mother in\u00a0May December<\/em><\/strong>, Tilda Swinton\u2019s nervous contract killer who sits across the table from another contract killer, Michael Fassbinder, whose taken his own oath to kill her in David Finchers\u2019 otherwise disappointing,\u00a0The Killer.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And, there were many other stunning performances of 2023 which still color my thoughts today: Swann Arlaud\u2019s calm and charismatic French defense attorney in Anatomy of a Fall<\/em><\/strong>;<\/em> the physical and emotional transcendence of Park Ji-Min\u2019s Freddie<\/em> in <\/em>Return to Seoul<\/em><\/strong><\/a>;<\/em> The Holdovers<\/em><\/strong>\u2018<\/em> redemptive ensemble with Paul Giamatti, Da\u2019Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa, Naheem Garcia and a photograph of a fallen American soldier who was unable to get a student loan; the entire cast of Oppenheimer<\/em><\/strong><\/a>,<\/em> with special attention to Tom Conti\u2019s brief, but powerful performance as Albert Einstein, Josh Hartnett \u2018s supportive nuclear physicist, Alden Ehrenreich\u2019s expositionary fictitious aide and Matt Damon\u2019s no nonsense head of the Manhattan Project, Leslie Groves — a 1914 alumnus of Seattle\u2019s Queen Anne High School; yours truly, a QA graduate of \u201971.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It was difficult not to be affected by the scream of Adam (Andrew Scott) at his own reflection in a train window in Andrew Haig\u2019s All of Us Strangers<\/em><\/strong>; another best-of-its-kind performance from Jeffrey Wright in American Fiction,<\/em><\/strong> Michelle Williams\u2019 fourth collaboration with director, Kelly Reichardt, as a troubled, yet self-driven sculptor in Showing Up,<\/em><\/strong> German-born South Korean actor, Teo Yoo\u2019s heart-wrenching acceptance and farewell in Past Lives<\/em><\/strong>; the often overlooked Annette Bening, as a world-class athlete in Nyad<\/em><\/strong>; and Osage Nation Tribal Members as actors, who gave us history and meaning in the Killers of the Flower Moon<\/em><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Snoop, the service dog in \u201cAnatomy of a Fall.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Plus, the many dogs who played key roles throughout the films of 2023 \u2013 in particular Dilla<\/em>, the H\u00f6ss family dog in The Zone of Interest<\/em><\/strong> <\/em>and Messi<\/em>, as Snoop, the service dog, in Anatomy of a Fall<\/em><\/strong>, perhaps the real performance of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No doubt I missed many key performances; so, T-Boy readers, feel free to send in your favorite list of 2023 performances and films, to **<\/span>@**********<\/span>oy.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visit Beyond the Films of 2023<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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