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
― Hungry4Ass, Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:00 (ten years ago) link
Rip
― Mordy , Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:00 (ten years ago) link
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
― scott c-word (some dude), Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:00 (ten years ago) link
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
― Alba, Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:01 (ten years ago) link
Being updated I suspect. Too many other sources reporting it now.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:01 (ten years ago) link
CNN and NYT are reporting it.
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:01 (ten years ago) link
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
― Hungry4Ass, Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:02 (ten years ago) link
re his embodiment of characters -- he always seemed like a very perceptive person, that's part of why i like him so much
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:02 (ten years ago) link
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.
― scott c-word (some dude), Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:04 (ten years ago) link
wow fuck this
― k3vin k., Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:05 (ten years ago) link
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?
― Hungry4Ass, Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:06 (ten years ago) link
― Hungry4Ass, Sunday, February 2, 2014 2:02 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yes otm
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:07 (ten years ago) link
was at Sundance two weeks ago to promote a film there
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:08 (ten years ago) link
it's a Le Carre adap
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1972571/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_4
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:09 (ten years ago) link
one of my favorite Hoffman moments is in talented mr ripley where he's just bullying ripley by plunking on some piano keys.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:09 (ten years ago) link
This is fucked up
― Master of Treacle, Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:12 (ten years ago) link
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.
― balls, Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:12 (ten years ago) link
yeah, RIP. Didn't know about the substance abuse. A great loss.
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:13 (ten years ago) link
NYpost now sketching in the details, they aren't pretty
― the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music (stevie), Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:14 (ten years ago) link
Not even wrt ability but just the amount of stuff I've watched last 20 years that he's been a part of
― Master of Treacle, Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:14 (ten years ago) link
Sad news...RIP
― 330,003 Luftballons (WilliamC), Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:15 (ten years ago) link
― 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.
― scott c-word (some dude), Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:16 (ten years ago) link
Loved him in everything, but his Lester Bangs really got to me. Very sad right now.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:16 (ten years ago) link
the Jimi Hendrix of american cinema. from now on. RIP
― nostormo, Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:17 (ten years ago) link
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
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:19 (ten years ago) link
this is just unbearable
― mustread guy (schlump), Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:21 (ten years ago) link
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.
― grape is the flavor of my true love's hair (Jon Lewis), Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:21 (ten years ago) link
the poor guyso beyond excellent that i can only have a selfish response to thisjust unbearable
― mustread guy (schlump), Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:22 (ten years ago) link
I cannot take it when people who've kicked and moved on and made it out suddenly fall like this. Fuck.same
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:24 (ten years ago) link
i cannot take it when people suddenly fall like this
― nostormo, Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:27 (ten years ago) link
Yeah I told you my friend's story LL. I wonder if something happened last year that precipitated psh back into using.
― grape is the flavor of my true love's hair (Jon Lewis), Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:27 (ten years ago) link
Hell of a shame
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:28 (ten years ago) link
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
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:33 (ten years ago) link
This is just awful. So young, such a great actor.
― toby, Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:34 (ten years ago) link
i would love to watch love liza, for its ebullience & grief, but it would be just too too sad
― mustread guy (schlump), Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:36 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:39 (ten years ago) link
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
― Bee OK, Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:40 (ten years ago) link
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_5http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1972571/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_4
― clemenza, Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:54 (ten years ago) link
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
― slam dunk, Sunday, 2 February 2014 19:55 (ten years ago) link
I know I'm restating the obvious here, but this is so sad. Such a huge fucking loss.
― the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music (stevie), Sunday, 2 February 2014 20:00 (ten years ago) link
I cannot take it when people who've kicked and moved on and made it out suddenly fall like this. Fuck.
it fucking horrifies
― joe perry has been dead for years (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 2 February 2014 20:07 (ten years ago) link
Synecdoche, NY is one of my two or three favorite movies of the last decade, and he's a major part of that, obviously. RIP.
― Simon H., Sunday, 2 February 2014 20:08 (ten years ago) link
I liked his early roles in Leap of Faith and Twister. He was great at playing a soldier in a misfit army.
― polyphonic, Sunday, 2 February 2014 20:11 (ten years ago) link
I am so sad about this, kind of felt like a blow out of nowhere. I can't believe I still haven't seen either The Master or Synedoche.
― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 2 February 2014 20:15 (ten years ago) link
yeah this came out of nowhere for me too. In fact when I clicked a link to the NY post article (posted somewhere without context) I thought it was some kind of Onion joke at first. :(
― Ludo, Sunday, 2 February 2014 20:19 (ten years ago) link
this really sucks
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 2 February 2014 20:24 (ten years ago) link
I've loved how his characters in Capote and Moneyball are polar opposites, but made by the same director and (amazingly) played by the same actor.
― tbd (Eazy), Sunday, 2 February 2014 20:31 (ten years ago) link
so sad
― flopson, Sunday, 2 February 2014 20:33 (ten years ago) link
wait what? The one Sunday I'm occupied for most of the afternoon and....shit? Oof.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 2 February 2014 20:39 (ten years ago) link