I absolutely love almost every film with Robert Duvall in it!
My wife and I just watched one I have never seen before “Get Low”...what an amazing actor.
I remarked to my wife what an astonishing face he has. I would love to follow him around for a day and take pictures of his face.
I have a compilation of pictures of my mother’s face I took in one 15 min episode while we sat on our back steps and she talked about life as she smoked her cigarette...in that sequence, her animated face seemed to touch a very wide range of emotions! My mother was a beautiful young woman, and when she got old, she had a beautiful old lady face...:) Unfortunately at the time, she was nearly killing herself trying to take care of my dad who had suffered a debilitating stroke, but she still shone through! Perhaps I will post it here.
Get Low -- what a fantastic Duvall movie. Also loved The Apostle extremely much (watched it several times), his grumpy old dad role in Something to Talk About, of course Tender Mercies and Apocalypse Now, his Tom Hagen role in the first two Godfather films, Gods and Generals, Secondhand Lions, Open Range, The Great Santini (you would looove that one), A Family Thing, and his unforgettable first movie role -- Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird. There are many other of his films I've seen, but those are the standouts for me.
My top movie consumption for actors I like is around six films. His films, I've seen dozens.
A longtime woman friend of mine used to live near his yuge horse ranch out in Virginia, and for awhile he owned a small restaurant at a country crossroads, where he and his wife used to go there to eat and, presumably, keep tabs. My friend and I absolutely adore him and we used to go over there for lunch just to sneak peeks at him. He did not seek adulation and usually sat with his face to the windows and his back to the room, for privacy, and we never disturbed him, but suppressed a lot of totally immature giggles. He is surprisingly not that tall -- maybe 5'9", but what a screen presence.
He has since sold the restaurant, and my friend moved away, but I often wish I had slipped him a thank-you note for his extraordinary story-telling. He wrote and/or directed Get Low, The Apostle, A Family Thing and several other of his art films, IIRC. He is a Navy brat, raised not far from here in Annapolis. And—he is a conservative and has said so publicly.
In short, he has no equal. No wonder those vain, insecure award-show d***heads in Hollywood ignore him.