. >> joining me now, david denby, film critic for "the new yorker." asked you what clips you thought you might want to see tonight. that was one of them. why "the master"? why that part? >> well, he's a public man for a lot of it, but what you saw there was a very intimate moment with joaquin phoenix. and at other times he betrays all kinds of anger, lust, rage. i mean, the guy had an ability to open up his soul. i mean, he wasn't the romantic actor. he wasn't a physically heroic actor, but he was the soulful actor of his generation, par excellence. i mean, the truman capote thing that you showed, he's breaking up in that scene, but that movie -- in that movie you get all kinds of guile and calculation and ambition. it's an extremely rich performance, as so many of them were. >> i want to show another clip that you suggested that we show tonight from "capote." let's look at that. >> we're not so different as you might think. i was abandoned repeatedly as a child. my mom would drag me along to some new town so she could take up with another man she'd m

joining me first, ao scott and david denby, film critics. >> he was both a wonderful character actor and had great character parts in big hollywood movies but partly because of the flurry of that independent and studio specialty division, cinema and the ambitions of directors like paul thomas anderson and others, he was able to become a star, to take on these heed roles that were incredibly ambitious, often very dark and troubling and there is just this kind of honesty i guess in his work that was very unusual and will be very much missed. >> but i was feeling he was just opening up all kind of spheres of rages, lusts, everything that -- it never stayed on the surface, charlie, it always went deep. even in small roles, i mean he could suggest soulfulness, you know, underneath whatever he was doing on the surface, and the surface was spectacular. >> rose: ben miller, the film director, philip seymour hoffman and was a long time friend, talked about him while he was alive and reflected on his craft. >> he would call me up, before he would go up in a play, right before two weeks before

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