Some movie stars are masters of the grand entrance.It is impossible to forget the imposing, portrait-like first appearance of Elizabeth Allen in John Ford’s Donovan’s Reef (1963) – seated in a boardroom, hands clasped, mouth pursed, hat slouched – or the fleeting, sliver-like glimpses of Jessica Lange in the kitchen of her husband’s roadhouse in Bob Rafelson’s The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981), leading to a close-up punctuated by the sound of dishes. These performers register the moment…