Xixax Film Forum

:(

Haven't we done this before?

I'm fucking quitting this board. :(

ShanghaiOrange  :(

Hardest poll question so far. I'll try to think of an answer tomorrow.

~rougerum

I don't see Godard and Anna Karina on that damn list...  :(

(Frowniest thread ever.)

I voted for Scorsese/Deniro

What about Tarantino/Keitel?
or Lee/Jackson?

Quote from: godardianI don't see Godard and Anna Karina on that damn list

who?

i totally have the answer to this poll by the way. no question.

Emir kusturica/Miki Manojlovic

i was high so i voted for rob cohen/vin diesel but i see now that it isn't even an option so i guess i just voted pta/blah. but im gonna see dogville now so i dont care.

Quote from: godardianGodard and Anna Karina

:yabbse-thumbup:

which is why i voted for "other"

This poll is so tough it's almost cruel.  I'm hung up on a gruesome trifecta: Scorsese/DeNiro-PTA/Blah-Coen/Blah....

Shit.  I'll have to come back a little later.

There.  PTA.  With Scorsese in a close close close second.

kurosowa and mifune.. could kick scorsese and deniro's ass. probably.

I went with Kurosawa/Mifune because their streak was longer and produced more great films than any of the others.  I still like a lot of the others though a lot.

~rougerum

It only counts if the actor has been in 3 or more of the director's movies. :(

I probably should add Takashi Shimura to Kurosawa. :(

And to everone who has other suggestions, I say this: I am not a actor/director pair finding machine. I don't even know who Emir Kusturica or Miki Manojlovic are. :(

Quote from: ShanghaiOrangeI don't even know who Emir Kusturica or Miki Manojlovic are. :(

neither do I. The choices are fine in my mind.

~rougerum

this is hard- good post/idea/thread

i voted for Scorsese/DeNiro

honorable mention goes to Ron/Clint Howard.

Kurosawa and Mifune. I love the films these two made together. And without Mifune [for the most part, but not always] the films are almost lacking a key ingredient.

How about John Wayne and John Ford?

Billy Wilder and Jack Lemmon?

Marlon Brando and Eliz Kazan?

Elliott Gould and Robert Altman?

Paul Le Mat and Jonathan Demme?

Robert Redford and Syndey Pollack?

Quote from: cecil b. demented

Quote from: godardianGodard and Anna Karina

:yabbse-thumbup:

which is why i voted for "other"

Got my "other" vote as well.

Sweet, sweet anna.

Fuck. :(

Quote from: soixanteBilly Wilder and Jack Lemmon?

yeah... :cry:

Quote from: soixantePaul Le Mat and Jonathan Demme?

Paul Le Mat and Johnathan Demme only made two movies. :(

william h macy only made 2 with pta.  how many do you need to qualify as a paring?  (this is not attitude, i am curious).

Well, what about Anthony Michael Hall and John Hughes?

Matt and Ben/Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith?

Bill Paxton/Michael Biehn and James Cameron?

Quote from: The Gold Trumpet

Quote from: ShanghaiOrangeI don't even know who Emir Kusturica or Miki Manojlovic are. :(

neither do I. The choices are fine in my mind.

~rougerum

Emir Kusturica directed Underground- the poster for which is someone's avatar around here- and Black Cat, White Cat. He is one of the few prominent filmmakers from the former Yugoslavia who continued to work on an international scale through the ravages, addressing them very effectively in Underground.

Ignorance is never an excuse, not with IMDB just waiting to answer all our curious little cinephilic queries!

QuoteBill Paxton/Michael Biehn and James Cameron?

The thread is titled best director/actor pairing, you know...

Quote from: The Silver Bullet

QuoteBill Paxton/Michael Biehn and James Cameron?

The thread is titled best director/actor pairing, you know...

I didn't think anyone would actually take me seriously, you know...


But since you brought it up, I'd like to know why people have a problem with Cameron.

I dont see anything wrong with Cameron, I dont like the guy himself but his films are the shiz-nit. Can't be pissed at someone who brought 'T2' and 'Aliens' to the world.

the selections are ekzellent, stop making shanghaiOrange sad.

QuoteBut since you brought it up, I'd like to know why people have a problem with Cameron.

I have no problem with Cameron. I have a problem with Paxton.
How can one actor find so many parts with so many cheesy lines?

He has a much higher average of terrible lines than any other actor I know of.

Quote from: themodernage02william h macy only made 2 with pta.  how many do you need to qualify as a paring?  (this is not attitude, i am curious).

Shit. :(
Three movies is the minimum. :(
Just ignore Macy then.

Quote from: godardianEmir Kusturica directed Underground- the poster for which is someone's avatar around here- and Black Cat, White Cat. He is one of the few prominent filmmakers from the former Yugoslavia who continued to work on an international scale through the ravages, addressing them very effectively in Underground.

Ignorance is never an excuse, not with IMDB just waiting to answer all our curious little cinephilic queries!

Underground is a good movie. :(



Fuck. :(

Maybe we can just have a round two. :(

I saw part of Underground, but turned it off for reasons that I cannot remember. I may watch it again or try to, but I really doubt it.

I don't mind that I never heard of the guy. I just honestly never heard of him before.

~rougerum

love love love cameron.  grew up loving everything cameron, still love (just about) everything cameron.  maybe if theres any negative feelings about him, it falls in with the Titanic backlash?  i dunno.

I enjoy Titanic Not worth the Oscar, but still, enjoyable. Hate me!
I just cannot stand Bill Paxton.

Kurosawa and Mifune first with Herzog and Kinski a close second. I'm surprised they aren't a favourite here. Herzog and Kinski made some of the most haunting films, certainly some of the best German films. I'm also surprised most posts involves fights about the ones *not* on the poll. Folks, it says "Other" for a particular reason.....

P... Not now that I have voted!

Hi guys, this is my first post in this amazing forum that i just happened to stumble upon while searching for upcoming films' news.  Really cool that someone suggested Kusturica/Manojlovic.

I've been trying to find Kusturica DVDs (mainly Underground, ...gypsies & black/white cat) for some time now, and i've found nothing other than what IMDB lists as available in France and Germany with no English subtitles.  Has anyone been more successful in such a search? (rustinglass, godardian maybe?)

he's a hard man to get ahold of. I can't even find someone that rents his flicks in my little town.

but I've heard good things about him. I'm most interested in Arizona Dream, mostly because of my hero-worship of Vince Gallo.

Actually, Arizona Dream is the one that's easy to find; the French version (R2 of course) is available on amazon.fr or dvdzone2.com, along with ...cat and underground, none with English subtitles though.

making it hard to find for us R1, English speaking folks...

how about Kurt Russell/John Carpenter?  5 pairings.

That's a good one. :(

mel brooks-mel brooks

woody allen-woody allen

Quote from: SoNowThen
but I've heard good things about him. I'm most interested in Arizona Dream, mostly because of my hero-worship of Vince Gallo.

Is that the guy who made "buffalo 66"?  did you see his new film "brown bunny"  (correct title, right?)  I've heard he's quite a prick.  but i don't really know for certain, not that it should matter.

not that this really matters either, but i've heard that he's a conservative right wing, seems strange seeing as how he used to be friends with the painter basquiet (sp?).

Cinematical Seven: Oddest Director/Actor Combos
Source: Cinematical

There's bad casting and good casting, to be sure, and sometimes there's strange casting. But sometimes, out of left field, someone agrees to act in a movie with a certain director, and you just can't see the connection. Sometimes this works out, and other times it does not.

1. D.W. Griffith & W.C. Fields, Sally of the Sawdust (1925)
Yes, the great, curmudgeonly comic with the bulbous nose, the penchant for booze and a curdling disdain for children and animals found himself working with the famously Victorian silent-era film pioneer. Griffith's career was on the way down, and Fields' was on the way up, and they met in the middle for this actually rather delightful comedy-drama. Fields occupies the co-starring role (opposite Carol Dempster) as a carnival cardsharp.

2. John Ford & Shirley Temple, Wee Willie Winkie (1937)
Ford had already won his first Oscar when he was assigned to direct the world's most popular movie star in this adaptation of a Kipling story. Ford was a man's man director, an Irish poet with a temperament and a sensibility to match. How would he clash with the sweetie-pie, curly-topped moppet? But no sparks flew; the two got along famously. They worked together again years later in Fort Apache (1948), and the grown-up Temple-Black would go on to say that Ford was her favorite director.

3. John Cassavetes & Judy Garland, A Child Is Waiting (1963)
This dud is considered a black spot on Cassavetes' resume, and devotees usually skip right over it, going from Shadows (1959) to Faces (1968). But it's true; the scrappy, do-it-yourself pioneer of the independent movement once worked with Garland at her most haggard (she completed only one more film before her death of an overdose in 1969). One can only imagine the behind-the-scenes conversations between the two artisans. Burt Lancaster was the co-star.

4. Ingmar Bergman & David Carradine, The Serpent's Egg (1977)
Most Bergman fans cite this film, one of his few English-language efforts, as his worst. And, indeed, it's quite excruciating. Carradine plays a circus acrobat stuck in a gaudy, depressing Post-World War I Berlin. (I admit; I couldn't finish watching this one.)

5. Akira Kurosawa & Richard Gere, Rhapsody in August (1991)
Maybe something about Gere's Zen philosophy impressed Kurosawa when the two got together for this late, minor work from the great Japanese director. The movie is mostly about an old woman (Sachiko Murase) and her various grandchildren, and Gere (playing her half-Japanese nephew) comes to visit midway through the film. He actually manages not to stick out too badly...

6. Paul Thomas Anderson & Adam Sandler, Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
A blessing for both Anderson and Sandler, this extraordinary film gets away from Anderson's Altman-like ensemble pieces and actually gives Sandler something to do (proving that he's really a capable actor underneath all those bad films). Endlessly weird and breathtakingly beautiful, Sandler's character Barry Egan must find a way to correctly channel his intense anger before he can win the heart of the girl (Emily Watson).

7. Amos Gitai & Natalie Portman, Free Zone (2006)
Actually not so weird, since it turns out Portman was born in Israel. This film has received mostly bad reviews, but probably from people who are more familiar with V for Vendetta than Kippur. Gitai is Israel's most celebrated filmmaker, and he puts his considerable talent to good use with Miss Portman's lovely visage. He opens the film with a single shot, lasting several minutes, of Portman's Rebecca looking out the window of a car and fading in and out of crying jags. He allows the light to play on her lips and nose, and the mascara to run down into a feline pattern on her cheeks. From there, the film stays on track as Rebecca and her Israeli driver meet and clash with a Palestinian woman in the title territory.