Features
Tuesday, June 19 2012
Essential Film Performances - 2012 Edition Part Two
PopMatters follows up our hugely popular 100 Essential Female and Male Performances feature and 2010 update with 50 additions to the essentials list. Part two features Ellen Burstyn, Diahann Carroll and more...
Thursday, December 2 2010
We've Got a Winner! Ellen Burstyn Holds a Dark Mirror Up to the Soul of 'Requiem for a Dream'
Burstyn's Requiem for a Dream transformation is more of a cinematic cousin to the great character work of Lon Chaney or Boris Karloff, or perhaps even Robert De Niro in Raging Bull, which makes Sara Goldfarb a classically-defined monster in many ways.
