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My favorite performances of his:
Thief: The whole performance is absolutely fantastic, but the highlight for me is the dinner conversation with Tuesday Weld. Between the performances and the way the scene is written and structured, it doesn't feel like a movie, but like eavesdropping on a real conversation.
Misery: Kathy Bates has the showiest performance, but Caan is the guy we are rooting for. He's great at those scenes in which he's trying to manipulate Annie into doing or believing certain things, not always with positive results (his expression when she doesn't drink the drugged wine!).
Eraser: Such an incredibly fun bad guy performance. He wears hypocrisy and deviousness on his face. I love the bit where James Coburn tells him to bring in Schwarzenegger alive. His face simultaneously conveys to Coburn he's going to do as he says, while at the same time conveying to us he has no intention of doing it.
With his passing, the upcoming Pierce Brosnan film Gun Monkeys becomes one of Caan's last film appearances.
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-62076080.amp
I think James Caan would have made a great Bond villain. The Godfather succeeded particularly because of his performance.
That's so sad. I know he was old, but still.
Caan in A Bridge too Far. Great movie with an incredible cast.
As a kid I had this James Caan Alien Nation poster on my ceiling with an Abyss poster, A Nico poster and a Hard to Kill poster, all full size cinema posters...
RIP James Caan.
RIP James Caan.
1. Eraser
2. Misery
3. The Godfather
4. Thief
But without a shadow of a doubt his finest performance was in THIEF. Acting perfection in that one. I always say Caan is one half of the film and Tangerine Dream is the other. I just can’t imagine the film without those 2. Ok, let’s not forget Robert Prosky. Whose transformation from kind grandfatherly type to the very personification of evil is something to behold.
His finest role, indeed.
And it's stunning to me that at his age, Thief was the feature film debut of Prosky. He's absolutely terrifying in it, plays a cheery old man who can get you anything just as strongly as a threatening, terrifying villain. That bit at the dealership near the end between Prosky and Caan is gold.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10995093/Pierce-Brosnan-pays-tribute-inspirational-James-Caan-following-death-aged-82.html
https://deadline.com/2022/07/tony-sirico-dead-sopranos-paulie-walnuts-1235060780/
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/08/entertainment/larry-storch-obit/index.html
With the death of James Caan and Storch this was certainly a bad week for those of us of a certain age,,,as well as for a certain organization of…EVIL.
RIP fellows.
Just heard L.Q. Jones has died. A regular with Sam Peckinpah, he also directed the oddity sci-fi 'A Boy and his Dog' with Don Johnson!
Was also sad to hear of the death of the actor L. Q. Jones, aged 94. He had one of the greatest cameo roles in all of Columbo as an RV salesman-cum-gun runner in the final episode of the NBC years, The Conspirators (1978).
R.I.P. Monty Norman