Tom Hanks is film history. Winner of five Golden Globes and two Oscars for best leading actorthe performer has been part of the collective imagination since the premiere of ‘Un, dos, tres… Splash’ (Ron Howard, 1984), the title with which he began a career with which he has cajoled critics, audiences and academics.
It is impossible to select a single title among all his works. It took him just over a decade to go from being the industry’s young darling to the most acclaimed actor of his generation.a meteoric rise that he managed to stabilize thanks to an impeccable sense of smell when it came to selecting roles and, at the same time, an innate ability to escape scandals while being a wonderful person.
“I don’t see my own interpretations, who does that? It would be crazy“He assured in an interview with ShortList. “I’ve seen all the movies once, but I don’t need to see them again because they don’t change.”
Despite this, in an interview on ‘The Bill Simmons Podcast’ (via NBC News), Hanks has had to remember and select what, for him, are his best films. There is a certain trap, since he has selected three titles based on your “personal experience” during the filming of them, not in the final result.
Tom Hanks chooses his three best films
The first to be mentioned is ‘Cloud Atlas’ (Tom Tykwer, Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, 2012). “It was the first time I filmed for a while in Germany and I was surrounded by history,” the actor recalls. “The work itself was great, we were part of a great group of fantastic people trying to do the best and hardest work possible.”
“A narrative matryoshka that works better when it piles up loose ends than when it decides to close them,” noted our review of ‘Cloud Atlas’. “Material like this could have made for a succulent film journey through the ages of cinema.”
“With this I was able to play baseball for a whole summer,” he explains about ‘They hit the ball’ (Penny Marshall, 1992)the film available on Filmin that tells how, in 1943, a women’s league was formed that tried to save the sport while the men were at war.
“She taught us so many things in such a subtle and exciting way that, after 25 years of life, we can only remember her with affection,” says Mireia Mullor in her review of ‘They give the blow’ for its anniversary. “And continue learning from her, which doesn’t hurt us at all.”
‘Castaway’ (Robert Zemeckis, 2000), the actor’s great epic that can be seen in the Netflix, Movistar Plus+ and SkyShowtime film catalog, is also one of those mentioned by the actor. “It was full of incredible adventures,” he explains. “We were in the middle of the ocean trying to film. In Fiji and my whole family was with me. There were adventures every day.”
“The style exercise of a hyper-technical creator determined to recover the still unexhausted eloquence and intensity of silent cinema,” says our review of ‘Cast Away’. “Zemeckis discovers here the functionality of a black screen intersected during the most spectacular scene of the performance or the deafening expressiveness of a simple raised hand against the background of a cyclopean liner.”
Ricardo Rosado is a film critic, cultural journalist, expert in North American comedy, horror films of any kind and everything that happens between genres and formats. Raised on Steven Spielberg films, and spoiled since he encountered David Lynch, he has been writing for a decade about the art he consumes.
In FOTOGRAMAS you will read him commenting on the latest theatrical releases, promoting peace between Marvel and DC fans, reviewing all the Star Wars news or diving into the depths of the Netflix, HBO Max, Prime Video and Filmin catalogues. He also likes to make galleries and rankings of movies and series, but no one trusts his judgment too much.
After studying Audiovisual Communication at the Complutense University of Madrid, he created a film review blog with the hope of attending film festivals and press screenings for free. Now, after seven years writing in FOTOGRAMAS about the latest theatrical releases, current series and any content available on the different streaming channels, she still thinks it was worth it.
Frontman of two embarrassing musical projects, director of various video clips by heavy metal bands from Madrid and author of many short films hidden in the Internet, he is the editor and one of the proud members of the cultural podcast ‘Los de al lado de Pumares’ , a space that has allowed him to participate as a collaborator in other radio formats such as ‘Vamos de cine’ (Castilla-La Mancha Media) and ‘El Faro’ (Cadena SER), in addition to having made him one of the main voices of the videos of FRAMES.
