The Sissy Spacek Performance Poll

Also, what a comeback: The Straight Story and In the Bedroom back to back.

just love her in badlands.

watched in the bedroom yesterday, it's great.

badlands

'jerry brown: yes I'm running' - man those were the days huh

Yeah, gotta vote 3 Women, and Carrie would've been the other contender. She's actually not too bad in 'night, Mother, despite the play being kind of intolerable.

Hated In the Bedroom.

3 women

For me, Carrie all the way, although I've only seen six or seven of these. The Straight Story and Affliction are great; her parts are comparatively small. Thank you for not listing her Long Suffering Wife role in JFK, a hopeless cliche.

"Did you ever stop to think about HIS feelings?"

i like 'night mother as a play, i think. she's good in it. also hated in the bedroom.

badlands, easily.

still need to see coal miner's daughter

Coal Miner's Daughter is great, and she's great in it. Her change from wide-eyed backwoods naif to burned-out drug-addicted country superstar is believable every step of the way.

i completely forgot there was an actress named sissy spacek, and thought this thread was about the noise band.

The first 4 are all great.

In the Bedroom is evil NPR-listener Death Wish shit.

3 Women.

In The Bedroom is a beautiful refurbishment of a short story, all tied up in silences, stillness and the static of human relationships. its performances are stellar, spacek's especially, taking on the mourning of a mother's loss with exactitude and dedication.

i voted Carrie.

There may be one worthwhile omission from your list, although I haven't seen it since it first aired: Katherine, a fictionalized TV-movie account of Patty Hearst. It came out in '75.

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HEAVEN

In the Bedroom is a beautiful NPR Death Wish refurbishment with evil, stellar performances.

In the Bedroom is NPR vaginal rejuvenation

i don't know what an NPR Death Wish refurbishment is, and i don't know what makes In The Bedroom so NPR.

In the Bedroom is NPR dentata.

i don't really get NPR from the movie. the aesthetic isn't as self-conscious. the quiet tension in the direction is more one of suspense than pretension, though i can see how the pace would throw some.

totally love her.
so great in badlands
so dreamy and zoned out

in the bedroom is the cinematic equivalent of a newly-reconciled couple's turgid attempt to have sex for the first time in a decade due to chemically eradicated erectile disfunction. its climax is akin the moment when the husband says to the wife 'i don't think this is working'

3 women

in the bedroom is the cinematic equivalent of a newly-reconciled couple's turgid attempt to have sex for the first time in a decade due to chemically eradicated erectile disfunction. its climax is akin the moment when the husband says to the wife 'i don't think this is working'

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HMMMMM

first four are unfuckwithable, could kinda take any of them

was sad to recognize her in Hot Rod

lol @ Blast From the Past, forgot she was in that...

So, wait, no one will rep for her other performances? She's hilarious in Crimes of the Heart, and in The Straight Story she played a person with a disability, as opposed to an actor begging for an Oscar by playing a person with a disability.

for some reason I have never seen the Straight Story

most inexplicable dbl bill i ever saw was Raggedy Man (Jack Fisk's only movie as Director! Sam Shepard in a sailor suit!) supported by House of the Long Shadows (fairly febble Old Dark House knock-off w/ Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, John Carradine, Vincent Price, written by Michael Armstrong and directed by Pete Walker) - Huh??

she was amazing in coal miner's daughter, straight story, 3 women, carrie, badlands, north country, and affliction.

Why no "Prime Cut"?

Anyway, voted "Badlands"

Coal Miner's Daughter over Carrie, but the five minutes I saw of of Prime Cut on late-night TV would have made me a fan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZObOxHxxG9A

LOL Morbs on In the Bedroom.

I love Missing and it needed her. Always felt that film was hugely underrated.

And the four films surrounding it are good enough to make me curious about A Home at the End of the World.

also no welcome to l.a.

not that anybody saw or would vote for it

I haven't seen Missing since the mid nineties but it stacks the deck against the Lemmon character, to which Lemmon responds by playing him with his usual squirming and um-ming.

Welcome to L.A. is at the top of my impossible-to-track-down films, along with 92 in the Shade and Life Upside Down (impossible, that is, unless you want to pay $30-50 for a VHS).

Forgot her "Man With Two Brains" voiceover

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Welcome to L.A. is at the top of my impossible-to-track-down films, along with 92 in the Shade and Life Upside Down (impossible, that is, unless you want to pay $30-50 for a VHS).

I once owned welcome to l.a. in the late 80s on BETAMAX

Welcome To La plays like once every two weeks on This Tv here in the states.

I watched the first chunk of it the other day. Sooo '70s.

kinda has to be badlands. i loved in the bedroom but cant remember her in it, really

welcome to l.a. next airs on thistv on 9/11 at 3 in the morning

set yr alarm clocks!

In the Bedroom was well done, but the ending was so much against everything I believe in that it made the whole movie suck. I can't believe so many smart people liked a movie that essentially condones (or at the very least, is not critical of) cold-blooded murder as revenge. It was pretty much just an artsier version of A Time to Kill.

It wasn't even artsier. It was just more boring.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0001GH7GS.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

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Think I found the nadir of an early-'70s cliché: Ginger in the Morning (image just above!), which came out in '74 but, I would guess, was made a couple of years earlier and released to cash in on the attention Spacek got for Badlands. IMDB:

An attractive young hitchhiker named Ginger meets and and takes up with a lonely, middle-aged advertising executive who is recently divorced. He is inspired by her free-spirited independence while she is drawn to his old-fashioned romanticism.

Butterflies are Free, Breezy, Save the Tiger (partly), many others. Ginger's close to unbearable. Spacek acquits herself as well as humanly possible. (Fred Ward's supposed to be in somewhere as a truck driver. I missed him, and missed him again when I speed-searched the film afterwards.)