Philip Seymour Hoffman c/d?

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

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.

I liked his early roles in Leap of Faith and Twister. He was great at playing a soldier in a misfit army.

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.

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. :(

RIP

this really sucks

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.

so sad

wait what? The one Sunday I'm occupied for most of the afternoon and....shit? Oof.

An actor of real intelligence. I'm trying to think of anyone who could've played his loathsome snob in The Talented Mr Ripley; the role required him to be out of shape, a bit swollen, and, more importantly, effeminate, as if that was the reason why he loathed Tom Ripley. The moment when he realizes what Ripley wants out of Dickie is A+

one of the greats. RIP

Wait, he did a guest spot on PBS's 'Arthur' cartoon?

http://static1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120315034634/arthur/images/1/1f/NPA_72.jpg

This is terrible news. RIP

he did snobs so well in early roles like Ripley and Lebowski that i thought he was gonna get stuck in that niche until he ended up playing a pretty huge spectrum of personalities

i fall in the camp of psh was my favorite working actor and this is absolutely gutting. just terrible news. feeling for his young family. i don't even know what to say.

RIP

that's lovely, johnny fever

rip

synecdoche is one of the very best films from the past decade or so imo and it's simply unimaginable without him.