Philip Seymour Hoffman c/d?

you are fucking joking. what the hell.

ABC News

http://abcnews.go.com/US/philip-seymour-hoffman-dead-46/story?id=22335771

Terrible. Always thought he was best in under the radar stuff like Owning Mahowny.

awful news

The first movie I noticed him in, and the first scene of his that lingered with me for a long, long time.

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

I thought about that scene and then thought about him in MI:3 and the talented mr ripley, polar opposite roles. Equally great in all of them and in everything in between.

Oh man. Love love love PSH. I even liked him in movies I didn't like.
me too. this hit me like a ton of bricks for some reason.

damn. <3 this dude

xp for clarity -- "for some reason" = i really liked his work and felt warmly toward him as a human being. RIP PSH, you were great.

same Ned. that performance blew me away at the time because he was playing a type of dude i'd known before but never seen represented onscreen, let alone so perfectly. watching it again not that long ago i was struck by how amazingly thought out all his little gestures and shit were

Rip

yeah honestly i think most of my favorite PSH performances are ones where the movie wasn't that great but he was just fantastic in them anyway xp

WSJ story now unavailable, which gave me faint hope it wasn't true, but the WSJ reporter is still tweeting details, so

https://twitter.com/Pervaizistan/status/430052209942753280

Being updated I suspect. Too many other sources reporting it now.

CNN and NYT are reporting it.

I thought about that scene and then thought about him in MI:3 and the talented mr ripley, polar opposite roles. Equally great in all of them and in everything in between.

― christmas candy bar (al leong), Sunday, February 2, 2014 1:57 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

he was even credible as art howe and that was a role he just had no business playing, on paper

re his embodiment of characters -- he always seemed like a very perceptive person, that's part of why i like him so much

it was really kinda shocking last year to read that he was going to rehab for heroin. a guy in his 40s, who had supposedly been clean for 20 years? was really hoping he was gonna be okay.

wow fuck this

he had the best line readings too. really deceptively low key but so idiosyncratic, kinda like jeff bridges

is his last movie really gonna be the hungry games?

he was even credible as art howe and that was a role he just had no business playing, on paper

― Hungry4Ass, Sunday, February 2, 2014 2:02 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes otm

was at Sundance two weeks ago to promote a film there

it's a Le Carre adap

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1972571/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_4

one of my favorite Hoffman moments is in talented mr ripley where he's just bullying ripley by plunking on some piano keys.

This is fucked up

showtime just picked up his tv show, not sure how much of it was filmed or if/when it would be shown. the next hunger games is in post-production but apparently the second half is still filming? this is from imdb so heavy grain of salt. he's also in some anton corbijn movie coming out this year and some movie john slattery directed apparently.

yeah, RIP. Didn't know about the substance abuse. A great loss.

NYpost now sketching in the details, they aren't pretty

Not even wrt ability but just the amount of stuff I've watched last 20 years that he's been a part of

Sad news...RIP

is his last movie really gonna be the hungry games?

― Hungry4Ass, Sunday, February 2, 2014 2:06 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he was good in Catching Fire! his role was supposed to be more prominent in the next 2 movies, which afaik they haven't finished shooting, so i'm curious what's going to happen with that character now.

Loved him in everything, but his Lester Bangs really got to me. Very sad right now.

the Jimi Hendrix of american cinema. from now on. RIP

i think this was the first time i noticed him -- i went to see "scent of a woman" and the movie itself did not move me but i remember thinking who's that guy?
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/12/21/magazine/21hoffman_slide01.jpg

this is just unbearable

I'm gutted. I cannot take it when people who've kicked and moved on and made it out suddenly fall like this. Fuck.

Trying to remember my first encounter w his acting. It wasn't happiness... I had seen him in one thing before that.

the poor guy
so beyond excellent that i can only have a selfish response to this
just unbearable

I cannot take it when people who've kicked and moved on and made it out suddenly fall like this. Fuck.
same

i cannot take it when people suddenly fall like this

Yeah I told you my friend's story LL. I wonder if something happened last year that precipitated psh back into using.

Hell of a shame

so fucking sad

first thing I remember noticing him in was Happiness & Boogie Nights.

one of my favorite "movie meh PSH tops" roles was Gust in Charlie Wilson's War. I love it when he plays aggressive misanthropes

This is just awful. So young, such a great actor.

i would love to watch love liza, for its ebullience & grief, but it would be just too too sad

Holy shit. Tbh, he seemed pretty on the ball, had a family, smart, etc. So I was surprised to hear the news last year or whenever that he was away for rehab. This is the worst possible outcome of that story.

He was an incredible actor. So good in Boogie Nights, as Lester Bangs, Capote (I still have no idea how they made such a big, doughy guy so small), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Charlie Wilson, The Master ... he was good in Moneyball. I assume he was great onstage.

Here he is as a bad guy in The Getaway:

http://www.hotflick.net/flicks/1994_The_Getaway/tn640/fhd994TGW_Philip_Seymour_Hoffman_001.jpg

RIP

I liked him in almost everything I saw him in, led by (in order) Magnolia, Capote, Boogie Nights, Happiness, Almost Famous, Moneyball, Love Liza, The Big Lebowski...a few others, too--I must have seen more than one film just because he was in it. (One of the few times he lost me was, Academy Award notwithstanding, the role he'll probably be most remembered for, Lancaster Dodd.) I wrote about him (sort of) soon after first noticing him. A couple of things to look forward to (maybe they've been mentioned already):

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2920808/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_5
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1972571/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_4

he was my favorite currently working actor. RIP. he was able to embody evil, or hollowed out, or desperate and broken characters with such vividness and emotional precision.
http://i1354.photobucket.com/albums/q686/tinyservants/Screenshot2014-02-02at24907PM_zps4ac9417d.png

I know I'm restating the obvious here, but this is so sad. Such a huge fucking loss.

I cannot take it when people who've kicked and moved on and made it out suddenly fall like this. Fuck.

it fucking horrifies