Jan 18, 2012
Mini: Rank This! Director/Muse Combos
What do we think of the film collaborations between directors and their pet actors? The answer…may surprise you.
Mini: Rank This! Director/Muse Combos
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Denzel/Spike Lee
1. Malcolm X
2. Mo’ Better Blues
3. Inside Man
Toshiro Mifune and Akira Kurosawa top 3
1. The Seven Samurai
2. Rashamon
3. Yojimbo
Jimmy Stewart and Alfred Hitchcock
1. Rear Window (I prefer Rear Window to Vertigo, sue me.)
2. Vertigo
3. The Man who Knew Too Much
Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullmann
1. Persona
2. Shame (1968)
3. The Passion of Anna
I disagree about Kurosawa/Mifune, but I love that you brought it up! My top three would be:
1. Stray Dog
2. Throne of Blood
3. I Live in Fear
(4. Rashomon)
I was all ready to jump in with Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman, until I realized that it’s just Kill Bill and Pulp Fiction. Even if it’s just two I can’t choose a favorite between them.
Carpenter/Russell is the first pair I thought of, and I rank them the save way as the honorable Mr. Cole. He left off “Escape from LA,” but I think I approve of that decision. Anyway, my point is that I enjoy hearing people whose opinions align with mine.
Yeah, I thought we were doing top three only. Escape from L.A. was notable only for Kurt Russell looking the same as he did in Escape from New York.
I’m going to think a little outside the box here and go with Steven Spielberg and John Williams:
1. Schindler’s List
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark
3. ET
4. Jaws (DAH DUMM!)
5. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
David Cronenberg and Viggo Mortensen:
1. Eastern Promises
2. A History Of Violence
3. A Dangerous Method