 | Blue (Three Colors Trilogy)
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $6.27 Of all dreary films, this one takes the prize. Julia has it down to a science. The lips quiver as if the verge, the eye that blinks one and a half times, the head that twists in smooth quarter turns, the mumbled words; and best of all, the walk away non-answers and the back of the head profile shots. All classic face acting. Great film!
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 | The Man Who Wasn't There
Buy used from: $2.76 Some of the greatest dead pan face acting of all time. Billy Bob does a few great non-mumbles, and some good one word drop lines. Cold stares into space. Best scene is the arrest by the detectives. His "you got me" face reverses straight into "Oh, no you didn't," with a squint, a nod, a mumble. Beautiful. The UFO background shots evoke our worst fears. Other face shots are fantastic. Great B&W.
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 | Koyaanisqatsi - Life Out of Balance
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $3.99 No faces until the latter half. But there are some great hidden camera sequences. These are not actors, I suppose.
There's the man in the power plant with his cigarette doing nothing with an uncanny non expression.
A few burn out wanna beauty queens strolling through streets.
But that roughly sixty year old shrewd Socratic face who never lets go. He had to be a Greek God.
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 | Faces by Daniel M Sakach
Buy new: $20.20 / Used from: $1.99 Yeah, I know, it's my own novel, but here's some deep long takes on several faces at escalating levels. The end seems to come out of nowhere, but those faces always cried out to us from the bottom of our souls. Check it out. Great cinema potential.
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 | The Chaplin Collection, Vol. 1 (Modern Times / The Great Dictator / The Gold Rush / Limelight)
Buy used from: $169.95 Charlie is known mostly for his physical acting, his familiar costume, his comedy. But check out the face acting. Here and there, they do close ups, especially at the end, or during deep emotions. Points where he draws you in. BW, no voices, examples of early use of faces.
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 | The Third Man - Criterion Collection (2-Disc Edition)
Buy used from: $27.94 This 1949 production of Graham Green's classic is filled with exceptional Face Acting. But the dark, doorway,nano whisper appearance of Harry Lime is the quintessential moment. He says nothing and everything in one twitch. Amazing!!
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 | Funny Face - Paramount Centennial Collection
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $9.99 The epitome of fluff as a Cinderalla fantasy. Audrey goes from Miss Nobody, to Miss Somebody, to Miss Ikon. Ethically speaking, her real strength always sprang from the persona in the sinister bookstore. But with Gershwin and Astaire in her sails, who cares! Funny is fun!Relax!
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 | The Hours
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $1.15 In this 2002 film based on Virginia Wolf, N. Kidman won an Oscar for her portrait of VW. As for face acting, Streep's triangular mumbled response to Laura Brown toward the end, swept me away! The eyes go left, then drop, and revert up into a cold stare. Not a word spoken. Beautiful! Epic meaning!!!
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 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2-Disc Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $27.49 / Used from: $11.95 This is a love story with a techno and symbolistic twist. Carrey and Kate are both famous for animated faces. His a gyrating rubber face, hers a blubbering frightened face. Neither achieve poise of Orson Welles or Meryl Streep, still they evoke hidden subconscious motives. Great flick!
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