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Posted September 18, 2009 to photo album "13 Ways of Looking at Philip Seymour Hoffman"
From Boogie Nights to Pirate Radio, Hoffman’s body of work never loses sight of his body.
Slide 5: The Ringmaster (The Talented Mr. Ripley)
In Anthony Minghella’s adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley, Hoffman has shed his loser garb to don sunglasses and a polo shirt as the cruel ringmaster of a group of wealthy Americans living in Italy. As Freddie Miles (in a role the New York Times’ Janet Maslin dubbed “scene-stealingly wonderful”), Hoffman embodies the arrogance and righteousness of the American aristocracy. In the San Francisco Chronicle, Bob Graham observed that, “his indolent drawl outdoes even William F. Buckley's. In Hoffman's performance, Freddie is so repellent that it wouldn't be surprising if some of his so-called friends would be happy to see him dead. Freddie is not only loathsome, he's too smart for his own good.”
The World's End
We Steal Secrets
Closed Circuit
The Deep
The Place Beyond The Pines
Greetings from Tim Buckley
Admission
Promised Land
Anna Karenina
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Brokeback Mountain
Lost in Translation
Pride & Prejudice
The Pianist
Gosford Park