The Seattle Weekly‘s Sheila Benson and Chuck Wilson have agreed with me (and quite a few others, I suspect) about Roberta Maxwell having given a brief but stirring performance as Jake Gyllenhaal’s mom in Brokeback Mountain . They’ve got her at at the top of their list of the year’s finest blink-and-they’re-gone performances (“The Two-Minute Oscars”). And right on for including Walk the Line‘s Dallas Roberts for his acting as record producer Sam Phillips, the guy who says “sorry” when he hears a few bars of Johnny Cash’s rendition of a gospel tune but then goads him into playing ‘Folsom Prison Blues”…and a star is born.
