Paul Giamatti’s Closet Picks 

I was going to post the same thing - hopefully they add that hashtag in somewhere - put the whole "accidental ASMR" thing and get itself a whole new base of fans.

And first action sequence lol

❤

That'd be Kim Cattrall's, it's very popular on the unintentional ASMR playlists.

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Because it is boring but an important film nonetheless

I've tried on multiple occasions... don't think I ever even made it halfway

I ❤ it

You'll need a lot of caffeine to watch Tarkovsky's movies.

It's boring but I like it as well

he's got a great podcast!

It's an actorly affectation, it's irritating

@@John-lp5xh who hurt you?

@@kfw9257 you know I'm right, you know it makes sense

He reads A Scanner Darkly!

I just love this guy❤

​@@syanhche's fantastic still love everything sideways one of the greatest actors on the planet deserves every accolades he can get smart witty humble you name it he's got it

​@@syanhcyou are correct

I've always loved his performances. I kinda wanna see Blue Velvet.

I first saw PG in SAFE MEN and it was one of my favorite slow-burn comedic performances of all time. Been a huge fan ever since.

For what role?

@@songsthatarecatchy For his role in "The Holdovers", in which Giamatti plays a cranky teacher who bonds with a student and the school chef when they're left alone over Christmas break.

@@trinaq oh yeah I saw that advertised but I can't stand Christmas movies....

@@trinaq Sorry to disagree. While I love Paul Giamatti (I loved him especially in John Adams), his performance in The Holdovers is fairly pedestrian and almost caricature, taking whole pages from the architype that Giamatti always played. It's not bad by any stretch of imagination, but it's the kind of role he played almost his entire life. I love the guy and think he's a great guy, and if you listen to him talk about his life, he comes across as an extremely humble person too. I just don't think he's anywhere close to the greats.

@@zxbc1Oh really? Pedestrian? Not nearly as pedestrian as your critique.

At his best as Harvey Pekar

I don't think he's underrated. I think folks know he's one of the very best American actors working today.

​@covechgo He's underrated that he's not in more projects that get a lot of attention and recognition.

Always has been...

​@@covechgoan amazing brilliant man very likeable and humble too great sense of humor does not take himself too seriously like that about him check out the interview he had on CBS Sunday Morning very touching

Thank you. Hard to understand him speak.

Yes, thank you! He didn’t say the title Blue Velvet, I had to freeze and enlarge the screen to read the title.

@@williamneal9076 Just so everyone knows, they list the movies he chose at the end of the video

You rock!

thanks I knew someone was making this list. Glad Paul mentioned some of my all time fav films and the rest I need to watch !!!

I assumed he meant he put an extra cube of sugar in his tea that day

More like on drugs, I would presume.

more like being high

well yeah intoxicated just means being on any substance

And he calls himself a “professional entertainer.” What a guy.

Yeah, but I still feel it’s better to worship #Jesus than #HerkHarvey..

@@aclark903 I agree, that is why I said "in a way." But there are some films that for me at least created a religious experience. A perfect example is The Shawshank Redemption.

@@Wyrmwould Not King’s finest. Much prefer #SalemsLot. King usually can’t get past his irrational and passionate loathing of all things #evangelical, but at least in Salem’s Lot he has a modicum of sympathy for Catholics.

I think op is acknowledging that Paul Giamati is a humble man who had some good unique choices.

@@kevinr.3542 Yes.

Why say 'rep' but spell out professional instead of pro.

@@zebunker I think because he said the word. I don’t mine abbreviating my words, but I usually try to use the same term a person did.

I grew up on LI NY and Queens (through age 4 or so), and grew up watching Chiller and Creature Features from nearly age 3 or so, somehow my parents had no trouble seating me in front of the TV in a high chair or whatever, and I saw tons of those movies, but never saw Carnival of Souls until maybe 2004 or so. I'd heard of it for decades, however. One of my fave Chiller movies I saw as a kid all the time on TV was MANSTER, a total cheezeball movie but had that disturbing scene of an eye (soon to be a second head) growing out of Peter Dynely's shoulder! That s--t was f'd up! I remember turning off the TV and running out of the room! Har! Mainly though at age 3 and 4 I was mainlining Godzilla movies, and anything to do with dinosaurs. The Lost World, etc. Anything involving Ray Harryhausen. Even scarier than the films being shown was the bloody Chiller six finger feckin' hand coming out of the swamp or whatever the animated opening of Chiller. That shit used to make me break out in a cold sweat and cry and shit! It was no joke. Whoever came up with that shit hated kids, let's face it! Haha!

👋 couldn't find Chiller Hand

Good old pig vomit.

Awesome film

He would be absolutely wonderful to watch movies with.

​@@bluemooninthedaylight8073very knowledgeable down to earth man concerning movies science fiction many things saw an interview he had on CBS Sunday Morning watch that an amazing humble man quite brilliant

I love that quirky movie. Glad to know that I was not the only one who had that film impressed upon them at a young age. Never forgot it.

Thomas Haden Church also with an amazing performance.

I hated the Academy when they didn't nominate Paul as Miles.

@@SamElliottsStache You really care what the "academy" thinks?

If anyone orders Merlot, I'm leaving. I'M NOT DRINKING ANY F*CKING MERLOT!!!

This is a great idea. haha

He was painted blue in Big Fat Liar and played a character nicknamed "Pig Vomit." Hard to be pretentious after those experiences. Amazing actor, though. He has risen above.

Same for me, such an underrated actor.

Anton Walbrook is always incredible in everything he’s part of (that I’ve seen, mind.); Gaslight, The Queen of Spades, 49th Parallel, Le Ronde, The Red Shoes, Lola Montes, et al.

​@@uberbabeINCIf you are a Walbrook fan, Masquerade ( 1934) starring him is a must see. It is a lavish, Pre-Code style Comedy from Austria. Never released on home media in the US, it is on RU-vid, with English Subtitles: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-d0obdzAYcws.htmlsi=SD4VJknxBgJUOkp-

I mean he had to look for the name on the back and he also thought Anton hadn’t been in a lot. So not as cool as you think

​@@bobbymcfee2974I'm tired of your shit. Quit being a dickhead. It's not like he NEEDS to know everyone's filmography. He liked the guy. Good enough.

The embodiment of Connecticut

No chance he's white, male and heterosexual. Won't work for the academy.

Back in 1986, opening night of the film on LI here, Levittown, the Lumberton of the northeast, suburbia ground zero, I knew something was up when half the very small audience for it walked out of it after maybe 20 minutes or so. Right after Dennis Hopper first shows up. After DUNE I was worried for Lynch, with good reason, and when I saw half the audience (mostly older folks) bail, I was even more worried! But I was with a friend who was also a Lynch fan, and we both thought it was brilliant. We felt like David had punched us in the gut, or whatever. Walked out feeling totally disoriented, like after a bad trip. I would try to dress like Jeffrey for a year or two afterwards, too! Wearing a black blazer and a pink semi skinny tie, etc, and chinos.

I wouldn't call Pig Vomit erudite, lol.

I agree. Kind of similar to how a singer reserves their singing voice for the tour

I've read his co-stars say before he's pretty shy. It takes him a while to open up and even then he remains reserved. Definitely one of those in the acting field who are introverted in life and extroverted on the stage.

I heard he got wild and crazy with Damian Lewis on the set of Billions between takes. A lot of fart jokes and stuff like that!

That’s a great anecdote about “Seconds”. I also loaned a copy to a friend who returned it weeks later. I asked her what she thought. For approximately 2 minutes she was only able to make hand gestures and facial expressions before she could articulate how astonished she was… both times she watched it!

@@uberbabeINC Any movie can end up being meh for any viewer, including Seconds…but when it affects a first-time viewer, it can hit pretty hard. We haven’t even mentioned the ‘wet’, claustrophobic cinematography by a master who handles wide open vistas just as well, the music, and the opening titles sequence. I think this is one of those times the movie tops the original novel (like Jaws, Die Hard), but the novel was great, too; slight letdown after seeing the film. The guy I recommended Seconds to needed a little cajoling to buy a copy (around 2012). Would he really like it, he wondered. I said “Well, what are your favourite movies? What do you like?” He said his fave film was Rosemary’s Baby, and I just handed him Seconds and said “You’re good, you’re fine, it’s….yes, yes.”.

Seconds is quite possibly the biggest hidden gem discovery I've had in the past couple of years, always sing its praises whenever I get the chance.

James Wong Howe #UndisputedMaster

@@uberbabeINC Yep. Seconds, and Hud - a great double-bill for watching a great cinematographer succeed by taking an exact opposite approach, as befits the requirements of two very different films, and nailing it.

And his John Adams miniseries.

Big Fat Liar should get a Criterion release. 😂

He was the highlight of Howard Stern’s “Private Parts” movie as well

Watched The Negotiator for the first time recently, went into it not expecting much but I really enjoyed it.

The Hawk is Dying.

The Negotiator (1998)

SOLARIS for sure. Read the Stanislaw Lem novel too!

He did a sci-fi movie called Cold Souls, a long time ago.