“The Last Movie Stars,” a documentary by Ethan Hawke, is about the status and role of actors—the purpose of movie stars.
”) makes a fascinating observation regarding Newman’s performance in “Hud”: he deems it of immense historical significance, as the forebear of all subsequent Hollywood antiheroes. Hawke manages to keep the informational proceedings lively, and, even while using clips from Newman’s and Woodward’s films as visual backdrops to biographical discussions, he displays a discerning eye for moments that spotlight the actors’ artistry and personae.
The struggle that actors face in their desire for roles—in competing for them or in deciding to take a role in order to insure the production of a particular film—unavoidably involves studio politics and financing. Newman proved to be a brilliant businessman, a manager of his own career in choosing roles that burnished his reputation while also crafting a personal brand.
Newman attributed his development as an actor to the Actors Studio—and Hawke, exploring that training, elicits from Vincent D’Onofrio a remarkable demonstration ofin a single Zoom shot, a brief, improvised scene in which D’Onofrio, tapping into his own well of experience, pulls wrenching sobs from himself. The love of show, the love of artifice, the joy in performing, the delight in gesture for its own sake—all gone with the Method.
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