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all kinds of great actresses at their best
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	Humoresque [VHS] Buy used from: $1.99 Joan Crawford - a gorgeous movie, great Franz Waxman score, and Crawford gives her best performance ever - restrained, subtle, sharp, classy, poignant, and so, so sad...
	Old Maid (1939) [VHS] Buy used from: $3.40 Bette Davis - just a woman's flick at first sight, but a very sad and moving story - and Davis could be a damn good actress if she didn't act Bette Davis. Watch out for great Miriam Hopkins too.
	The Ice Storm Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.22 Sigourney Weaver and Joan Allen - another sad story, and a beautiful film. Weaver and Allen are colder than the icy weather, and you can't even cry for them. They make you frost inside.
	The Strange Love of Martha Ivers Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $2.42 Barbara Stanwyck - the ultimate melodrama noir - every single character in the story is twisted, and yet you just wish everything would be ok for them. Stanwyck seems to be the shadiest of all.
	Witness For the Prosecution Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $9.34 Marlene Dietrich - when you thing you figured Dietrich out, she gets you once again. A bit over-the-top, but bewildering.
	Cries & Whispers - Criterion Collection Buy new: $20.49 / Used from: $15.95 Ingrid Thulin - Liv Ullmann is lovely and touching as ever, but you'll be knocked out by mrs. Thulin. Never saw so much anguish in a mere pair of eyes.
	La Notte Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $9.99 Jeanne Moreau - the world-weary woman to put and end to all world-weariness... Can I say "sad story" once more??
	The Dead [VHS] Buy used from: $5.96 Anjelica Huston - in the last movie directed by her father, ms. Huston gives her most ethereal performance, as a woman lost in memories. Sad, sad, sad...
	The Women (Snap case) Buy used from: $5.45 Rosalind Russell - ok, we need some fun here too, and nothing better than Russell's hysterical histrionics. Watch out for a delightfully b***y Joan Crawford too.
	Chinatown Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $3.99 Faye Dunaway - the ultimate 40s noir femme - in the 70s! Nobody could be as mysterious as Dunaway. Too bad she ended up in the camp-fest Mommie Dearest.
	The Maltese Falcon Buy used from: $6.02 Mary Astor - more noir dubious woman. And no matter how much you are convinced that she's rotten, you care for her deep inside.
	Requiem for a Dream (Director's Cut) Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $3.15 Ellen Burstyn - just watch a woman's descent into madness - sad, disgusting, touching, and just try to look away. And she lost the Oscar to Julia Roberts... Oh well...
	The House of the Spirits Buy used from: $39.15 Glenn Close - no, the movie isn't any masterpiece, the other actors seem more like cardboard cutouts, but Glenn Close is magnificent.
	La Strada - Criterion Collection Buy new: $31.99 / Used from: $19.99 Giulietta Masina - there certainly is a word better than "endearing" for her, but I can't find it... I just can't belive that little innocent thing was a woman.
	The Graduate (Special Edition) Buy used from: $1.45 Anne Bancroft - the last classy dame in movie history... And she's barely working these days...