Beauty vs Beast: Red & Green & Tangerine
Monday, December 21, 2015 at 1:01PM 
Jason from MNPP here, wishing you and yours a Ha Ha Happy Holidays with a Ho Ho Ho in your heart -- since it's Christmas Week I figured what better way to celebrate the festive mood than with the hilarious and heartfelt brand new Christmas classic, right up there with Batman Returns and Eyes Wide Shut, that is Sean Baker's Tangerine. Like Keiran argued recently my favorite character in the film is also Alexandra (played by a lovely Mya Taylor), but for "Beauty vs Beast" purposes its gotta be Sin-dee (the very funny Kitana Kiki Rodriguez) versus her pimp-snatching rival and "real fish girl" Dinah (Mickey O'Hagan's hilarious performance should be getting more attention too)...
PREVIOUSLY Two weeks ago we looked back at the 25th anniversary of The Grifters and set two of TFE's fave actresses against each other in a con-woman cage-match -- well repeating history it was tough mama Lilly (played by a maybe never better Anjelica Huston) who shoved her way to the front with over 70% of your vote! Said kermit_the_frog:
"I choose Huston here - Tthe Grifters is a far more sinister and unpleasant film than I first thought it was. That Huston makes you actively root for the character is achievement in itself. By the way, I nominate Huston twice in Best Actress 1990 - this and The Witches (I've never understood the annoying 'one nomination per category' rule!"
Reader Comments (5)
Oh my gosh, that whole door-busting, hair-pulling sequence was so bad-ass.
Mickey O'Hagan deserves a spot on every Supporting Actress ballot as well as a lead role in the next Sean Baker movie.
She was genius in Tangerine - impeccable comic timing and yet you never lose the sense that you're watching a real person in a real setting.
Love them both, but they're operating at very different registers. Something about that motel brothel made me so-o-o sad for Dinah. Shore was a shit show, and even then there was no room for her at that inn!
Dinah for THOT of the year!
Yes. Yes. Yes. Mickey O'Hagan's my new It Girl. She definitely should be walking that Red Carpet on Oscar night as a nominee - wearing designer shoes, two of them. All the major characters in "Tangerine" have poignant final moments. But Dinah's, for me, was the most heartbreaking of all.