Philip Seymour Hoffman Is Still ‘The Master’: Remembering His 15 Best Film Performances
variety.comClayton Davis It’s been eight years since we lost the incredible Philip Seymour Hoffman, and the hole in the industry still looms large.
With a career that spanned over three decades, Hoffman worked alongside several masters both in front and behind the camera.
The New York-born actor was a staple of some of Paul Thomas Anderson’s most fascinating works. These included an expansive look at the porn industry with “Boogie Nights” (1997), a character mosaic of love and loss with “Magnolia” (1999), wild expose on social anxiety with “Punch-Drunk Love” (2002) and a look at the beginnings of a cult in “The Master” (2012).
He also worked with filmmakers such as Sidney Lumet (“Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead”), Cameron Crowe (“Almost Famous”), Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (“The Big Lebowski”) and Charlie Kaufman (“Synecdoche, New York”).
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