Show Notes
This week, we're talking about Rose Byrne's performance as a psychotherapist going through a prolonged mental breakdown as a result of all number of factors in her life - from her anxious daughter with a feeding disorder, to the spontaneous hole that appears in the ceiling of her apartment, to her disaffected therapist, to her aloof and absent husband, to a patient who abandons her baby in the middle of a session, and so much more - in Mary Bronstein's IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU!
More from The Lone Acting Nominees
For our penultimate(!) episode, we're taking a detour from the regular formula to look at once performance from an almost completely lost film - Emil Jannings in THE WAY OF ALL FLESH - and two performances from films that are only available in archives - Richard Barthelmess in THE NOOSE and Betty Compson in THE BARKER!
This week, we're talking about Janet McTeer's performance as a single mother of a preteen daughter who has a habit of packing up and moving to a new city every time her latest relationship goes south in Gavin O'Connor's TUMBLEWEEDS!
This week, we're talking about Norma Shearer's performance as a young woman who falls in love with a young man, only to realize that he's the son of the woman that her father divorced her mother to be with, in E. Mason Hopper's THEIR OWN DESIRE!
This week, we talked about George Arliss's performance as the Raja of a realm in the Himalayas where three British citizens crash land in Alfred E. Green's THE GREEN GODDESS!
This week, we're talking about Leslie Howard's performance as an American man in the 1930s who is transported back into the body of his ancestor in 18th century London in Frank Lloyd's BERKELEY SQUARE!