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Name the best Meryl Streep films
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Each year the Film Society of Lincoln Center chooses a film legend to honor at its annual gala. This year’s pick? Meryl Streep.
Good choice. Has this woman ever acted badly in a movie? No.
Now, she’s been in some bad movies (hopefully you didn’t, like me, have to suffer through “Falling in Love” with Streep and Robert De Niro). But her acting wasn’t the painful part.
Streep was celebrated by the Film Society earlier this week. And I know it was a classy, fun affair with great film clips and worthy speeches.
I know because I attended the Society’s gala a few years ago when Atlanta’s own Jane Fonda was honored. And that was a classy, fun affair with great film clips. I remember asking Fonda if she was prepared to see some clips from “Barbarella.” Part of her reply: “Bring them on.”
If I’d been in charge of this week’s Film Society event, I would have made sure clips were shown from my five favorite Meryl Streep movies:
1. “Sophie’s Choice” (1982) — Her silent scream (the sounds you actually hear are the cries of her child) after a Nazi has forced her to make her “choice” is one of the most powerful moments on film.
2. “The Hours” (2002) — I thought all the acting in this movie was amazing, but the best of the lot was Streep.
3. “Heartburn” (1986) — Not a knockout movie, but every time I chance upon it when the television’s on I will invariably stop and watch to watch Streep in it.
4. “Silkwood” (1983) — I grew up in this part of the country and can attest that Streep’s accent and manners are authentic.
5. “Adaptation” (2002) — A fascinating, ever-twisting film and I love watching Streep skirt the line between comedy and drama.
What are your favorite Meryl Streep movies? “The Devil Wears Prada”? “Out of Africa”? “The Bridges of Madison County”? “Postcards From the Edge”?
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By Mike
April 17, 2008 4:53 PM | Link to this
Are we talking about Streep’s best performances or about the best movies she appeared in? For the former I’d go with “Sophie’s Choice” or “Adaptation”, but they’d have to fight it out with half a dozen others. But for the best movie she appeared in it’s no contest: “The Deer Hunter”.
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