Philip Seymour Hoffman c/d?

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.
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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.

in addition to major emotional intelligence, he had a really expressive face without having to move it very much

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HW9qVEVgWLE/UCF9ELkbPgI/AAAAAAAAFrg/riXQGhGNYGs/s1600/Philip%2BSeymour%2BHoffman.jpeg

Just one example of his transformative powers: His performance in Joel Schumacher's flawed, to say the least, Flawless redeems the whole enterprise. It's not even so much that PSH is "convincing" as a drag queen but that he's a goddamn force of nature.

a huge loss. 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

― scott c-word (some dude)

re: this and clem's ancient blog posts i remember he did loser creeps so well (thinking of happiness here esp but scent of a woman and boogie nights have aspects of that as well) that i thought he might get stuck in that mode, i remember one thing i enjoyed about him and magnolia was how it played w/ this, that the typecasting was so apparent at that point you could turn a 'lol psh is ordering porn on the phone' scene on its head. was tempted to compare him to hackman in his ability to make anything watchable and this way he was a character actor that could just blow any trad lead off the screen w/o having to go big (thinking of mi:3 here) but he had a vulnerability that hackman rarely had and never just leaned on charisma the way hackman could sometimes. i'm sure someone can provide examples but thinking of river phoenix and then heath ledger and now hoffman from this generation, it just seems like a ridiculous waste, i can't immediately think of another generation of actors to lose this many giants or potential giants w/ so much work left on the table. obv hoffman got to fulfill his potential more than phoenix and ledger but 46 is just ridiculously too young, we should've had thirty more years of watching this guy.

I also really loved his sparkle and swagger when he got to play guys with a lot of ego and force. One of my favorite small roles is the sex-phone scam guy in Punch-Drunk Love. He's a total asshole, but so much fun to watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE2FCCZ50VU

saw him onstage about three times, he was consistently exciting

just saw this news. a huge loss; r.i.p. was a singular-star from his appearance in boogie nights forward.

RIP, PSH

Not the news I was expecting today. Utterly tragic. He played an absurd amount of great roles.

awful news. great actor.

this is so sad. he was one of those actors you take for granted cos he was in so many movies and he always did a great job. one of my fave performances of his was in "before the devil knows your dead". not an amazing movie but hes just so excellent in it.

he was a leading star, too, but he showed how amazing it can be to focus a career on character/supporting roles.

this is devastating.

terrible, just terrible.

Always brought a certain 'je ne sais quoi' to his roles.

Was really looking forward to more of him. Ugh.

addiction is so patient and crafty and vicious, such a nasty thief.

Well this is shit. rip.

Nothing further to add, other than that hearing he passed in such a way makes it doubly painful. Similar feeling to when Heath Ledger died.

I remember seeing Synecdoche, New York blowing my mind to pieces when I saw it as an 18 year old. Rest in peace.

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 most OTM things I've read is that PSH and Jude Law should have swapped roles, actually.