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Post by manfromplanetx on Apr 22, 2017 8:57:02 GMT
Favourite Great Director Actor collaborations...
James Stewart collaborations with director Anthony Mann began with the Classic 1950 Western, Winchester '73 a major turning point for Stewart who's screen persona in Mann's Westerns, evolved into a more mature, more ambiguous, and somewhat unsettled presence. Together they made eight films in the years 1950-55 .
Lon Chaney began with Tod Browning in 1920 with Outside the Law their nine successful collaborations created some of the great memorable films of the silent era, their last film together was the excellent film with Lupe Velez, Where East is East (1929)
#1... Ayako Wakao made her first film with Yasuzo Masumura, Aozora musume, The Blue Sky Maiden in 1957.
Their productive and successful collaboration produced fourteen films throughout the sixties. Some are hard to find, I now have tracked down seven on dvd .
A diversity of themes based in melodrama Masumura was a Master Director, the manifold talents and beauty of Ayako Wakao highlights all of their film collaborations... Highly Recommended
Any favourite Director Actor collaborations to share?...
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Post by mattgarth on Apr 22, 2017 9:04:59 GMT
Many favorites (2 or more collaborations):
Elia Kazan / Marlon Brando
Martin Scorsese / Robert DeNiro & Leonardo DiCaprio
John Ford / John Wayne & Henry Fonda
Mark Robson / Arthur Kennedy
Martin Ritt / Paul Newman
Preston Sturges / Joel McCrea
Leo McCarey / Bing Crosby
Sidney Lumet / Sean Connery
Stanley Kramer / Spencer Tracy
Frank Capra / James Stewart
Billy Wilder / William Holden & Jack Lemmon
Budd Boetticher / Randolph Scott
George Marshall / Glenn Ford
Sydney Pollack / Robert Redford
William Wyler / Charlton Heston
Michael Curtiz / Errol Flynn
John Huston / Humphrey Bogart
William Dieterle / Paul Muni
Jim Sheridan / Daniel Day-Lewis
Vincente Minnelli / Kirk Douglas
Howard Hawks / Cary Grant
John Frankenheimer / Burt Lancaster
Steven Spielberg / Tom Hanks
Fred Zinnemann / Montgomery Clift
Don Siegel / Clint Eastwood
Henry King / Gregory Peck
David Lean / Alec Guinness
Lewis Gilbert / Michael Caine
Henry Hathaway / Gary Cooper
Victor Fleming / Clark Gable
Otto Preminger / Dana Andrews
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Post by hi224 on Apr 22, 2017 15:21:05 GMT
Kurosawa/mifune
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Post by hi224 on Apr 22, 2017 15:22:04 GMT
Truffaut and werner
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Apr 26, 2017 0:48:00 GMT
Terence Fisher/Peter Cushing
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Post by camimac on Apr 26, 2017 3:20:21 GMT
Leonard DiCaprio/Martin Scorsese; and
Viggo Mortensen/David Cronenberg
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Post by manfromplanetx on Apr 26, 2017 3:25:10 GMT
Josef von Sternberg ... Marlene Dietrich, seven film collaborations... Sternberg took credit for having "discovered" Dietrich Her performance as Lola-Lola in the German film The Blue Angel (1930) brought her international fame and resulted in a contract with Paramount Pictures. Sternberg's encouragement and creative talents helped to create the Dietrich legend in the six films they made together in Hollywood. Sternberg is noted for his exceptional skill in lighting and photographing Dietrich for optimum effect. He had a signature use of light and shadow. A technique he mastered was "butterfly lighting" which uses two lights, and can be recognized by the strong light falling on the forehead, the bridge of the nose, the upper cheeks, and by the distinct shadow below the nose that often looks rather like a butterfly and thus, provides the name for this technique. The now famous publicity stills, Sternberg created used butterfly lighting to enhance Dietrich's features. This combined with the scrupulous attention to set design and costumes makes the films they made together among the most visually stylish in cinema history. Critics still vigorously debate how much of the credit belonged to Sternberg and how much to Dietrich, but most would agree that neither Sternberg or Dietrich reached such heights again after their collaborations for Paramount ... 
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Post by hi224 on Apr 26, 2017 3:25:50 GMT
Josef von Sternberg ... Marlene Dietrich, seven film collaborations... Sternberg took credit for having "discovered" Dietrich Her performance as Lola-Lola in the German film The Blue Angel (1930) brought her international fame and resulted in a contract with Paramount Pictures. Sternberg's encouragement and creative talents helped to create the Dietrich legend in the six films they made together in Hollywood. Sternberg is noted for his exceptional skill in lighting and photographing Dietrich for optimum effect. He had a signature use of light and shadow. A technique he mastered was "butterfly lighting" which uses two lights, and can be recognized by the strong light falling on the forehead, the bridge of the nose, the upper cheeks, and by the distinct shadow below the nose that often looks rather like a butterfly and thus, provides the name for this technique. The now famous publicity stills, Sternberg created used butterfly lighting to enhance Dietrich's features. This combined with the scrupulous attention to set design and costumes makes the films they made together among the most visually stylish in cinema history. Critics still vigorously debate how much of the credit belonged to Sternberg and how much to Dietrich, but most would agree that neither Sternberg or Dietrich reached such heights again after their collaborations for Paramount ... nice calll. |
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Post by teleadm on Apr 26, 2017 17:36:15 GMT
Results might have been a bit uneven, but
J. Lee Thompson/Gregory Peck
J. Lee Thompson/Charles Bronson
Norman Taurog/Elvis Presley
Mark Sandrich/Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers pairings
D.W. Griffith/Lillian Gish
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Post by Salzmank on Apr 26, 2017 17:40:20 GMT
Terence Fisher/Peter Cushing Interesting, Primemover. I love Cushing, but I don't find his performances to be superior, or even distinct, whether he's with Fisher or not. (Many fans don't particularly like The Evil of Frankenstein, the only entry in the series Fisher didn't direct, but Cushing is as good as always.) I suppose the point hinges on what our goal is for the collaboration. |
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Apr 26, 2017 18:24:59 GMT
Interesting, Primemover. I love Cushing, but I don't find his performances to be superior, or even distinct, whether he's with Fisher or not. (Many fans don't particularly like The Evil of Frankenstein, the only entry in the series Fisher didn't direct, but Cushing is as good as always.) I suppose the point hinges on what our goal is for the collaboration. Right I meant they just happened to work together a lot, so in that sense it was great by a default sort of definition. On the other hand, some Fisher films like The Earth Dies Screaming do suffer for the lack of a presence like Cushing, so I think the collaboration is more of a benefit for Fisher's resume than Cushing's. Cushing appeared in some awful movies but he never did a sub-par job. Then again I don't think Fisher did either. He did the best with what he had to work with. |
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Post by Salzmank on Apr 26, 2017 18:32:03 GMT
Interesting, Primemover. I love Cushing, but I don't find his performances to be superior, or even distinct, whether he's with Fisher or not. (Many fans don't particularly like The Evil of Frankenstein, the only entry in the series Fisher didn't direct, but Cushing is as good as always.) I suppose the point hinges on what our goal is for the collaboration. Right I meant they just happened to work together a lot, so in that sense it was great by a default sort of definition. On the other hand, some Fisher films like The Earth Dies Screaming do suffer for the lack of a presence like Cushing, so I think the collaboration is more of a benefit for Fisher's resume than Cushing's. Cushing appeared in some awful movies but he never did a sub-par job. Then again I don't think Fisher did either. He did the best with what he had to work with. I think that's absolutely true. While I don't dislike Fisher, I would say that Cushing was a better actor than Fisher was a director. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2017 18:42:36 GMT
Hitchcock/Cary Grant
Woody Allen/Diane Keaton, Dianne Weist, Mia Farrow
John Ford/John Wayne
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Apr 26, 2017 19:18:10 GMT
I think that's absolutely true. While I don't dislike Fisher, I would say that Cushing was a better actor than Fisher was a director. I think Fisher's strength was that he took fantasy seriously, no matter how bad the FX. True of The Earth Dies Screaming, and especially true of Night of the Big Heat where the domestic relationship story may be more interesting than the alien invasion part. But then I do not want to apply auteur theory to Fisher since he may have been more of a journeyman director who happened to work with people who took their roles professionally. I don't know enough about his working methods. But I think in terms of thematic depth, he had more interesting topics than a fellow director like Roy Ward Baker (I like his work too though). Anyway back to Cushing. Apparently Laurence Olivier considered him the best film actor he knew. |
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Post by politicidal on Apr 26, 2017 19:39:09 GMT
John Ford and John Wayne made some of their greatest movies together.
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Post by gadolinium on Apr 26, 2017 19:39:44 GMT
Arnold Fanck/Leni Riefenstahl
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Werner Herzog/Klaus Kinski.
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Post by shawshanked on May 2, 2017 17:14:49 GMT
Hitchcock/Stewart
Hitchcock/Grant
Lean/Guinness
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Post by salomonj on May 2, 2017 17:31:56 GMT
LeoDicap and Martin Scorcese are always great together.
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