Favorite/Least Favorite Director/Actor Pairings?

[bono_212]

After seeing Ed Wood for the first time about three weeks ago, I had thought about making this thread, and then promptly forgot about it. Tonight, I was looking through Robert Zemeckis' filmography and noticed he's used Tom Hanks a few times, and I've enjoyed all three of those films, and that prompted me to get back around to making this thread.

So, I'm not sure what my favorite would be, I had something in mind but I've forgotten, but the one I'm definitely most tired of at this point is Depp/Burton.

 

[Lancemc]

Yeah, Depp and Burton need to go bury themselves in a hole somewhere for a decade or two.

Wong Kar-Wai/Tony Leung Chiu-Wai ftw.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Some of my favorites:

David Yates/Emma Watson
Ron Howard/Clint Howard
Kevin Costner/Himself

 

[bono_212]

Kevin Costner/Himself

The cinema has never been graced with more prolific an experience than Swing Vote.

EDIT: Damn it, I am really off my game tonight. Just produced that one.

 

[LemonMelon]

Three replies and no mention of Scorsese/DeNiro or Nolan/Bale? You're all off your game tonight.

 

[Lancemc]

Three replies and no mention of Scorsese/DeNiro or Nolan/Bale? You're all off your game tonight.

That's only because my choice is far better.

 

[Lancemc]

Anyway, here are some more:

Kurosawa/Mifune
Antonioni/Vitti
Fellini/Mastroianni, though not an extremely prolific relationship a very important one
Hou Hsiao-Hsien/Shu Qi
Almodovar/Cruz
Godard/Karina
Hitchcock/Grant
Woo/Chow

I'll think of some more that are obviously eluding me.

 

[bono_212]

Hitchcock/Grant

I don't know if it's an unpopular opinion or not, but I assume it is, but another one that I really find grating is Hitchcock/Stewart. It's not Hitchcock's fault though, I'm not a big Jimmy Stewart fan.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Palladino/Bledel

 

[lazarus]

Rivette/Ogier
Truffaut/Leaud
Chabrol/Audran
Buñuel/Rey
Allen/Keaton
Allen/Farrow
Lee/Washington
Carpenter/Russell

Burton/Depp would definitely be my least favorite, came to mind as soon as I saw the thread title.

 

[LemonMelon]

That's only because my choice is far better.

Nolan/Bale was entirely facetious anyway.

One that has very little artistic merit or significance but never fails to make me smile: Anderson/Murray.

 

[Lancemc]

Nolan/Bale was entirely facetious anyway.

One that has very little artistic merit or significance but never fails to make me smile: Anderson/Murray.

I kind of figured.

And your latter suggested triggered another hardly-related one in my brain:

Jarmusch/De Bankole

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Dalton/Lance's Mom

 

[lazarus]

Jarmusch/De Bankole

The Limits of Control

Dalton/Lance's Mom

The Limits of CuntRoll

 

[cobl04]

I don't know if it's an unpopular opinion or not, but I assume it is, but another one that I really find grating is Hitchcock/Stewart. It's not Hitchcock's fault though, I'm not a big Jimmy Stewart fan.

i've only seen Rear Window, but i though Jimmy was great.

The Limits of CuntRoll

you can't say the c word.

 

[LMP]

Scorsese/Keitel's pretty great. Also:

Fincher/Pitt
Soderbergh/Clooney
PTA/Reilly
Leone/Eastwood
Hawks/Grant
Coens/McDormand
Welles/Cotten
Guest/Levy
Tarantino/Feet

Carpenter/Russell's probably my favorite though, alongside Anderson/Murray.

 

[beegee]

Favorite: Linklater / Hawke, Delpy

 

[No spoken words]

Scorsese/DeNiro

 

[Lancemc]

Scorsese/DeNiro

You boring motherfucker.

 

[No spoken words]

You boring motherfucker.

Yes. I am.

Scorsese/DiCaprio would be on a longer list, for the record. So would PT Anderson/the HOFF!. So would The Bergh!/Clooney and the Coens/McDormand

I'd like to say Spike Lee/Denzel but there are clunkers mixed with the ones I like.

I'm sure there are historic pairings that I'd list if only I'd seen all the films in question. Kazan/Brando, Capra/Stewart, Huston/Bogart, etc.

I'm very tired of Burton/Depp as well, I should add. Very tired.

 

[monkeyskin]

Big yes for Huston / Bogart. Some others:

Wilder / Lemmon
Kurosawa / Mifune and Shimura
Hawks / Grant
Mann / Stewart
Melville / Delon

 

[lazarus]

Wilder / Lemmon
Melville / Delon

Good calls.

 

[Dalton]

Scorsese/DeNiroDiCaprio

there

 

[hardyharhar]

Tough to beat Scorsese/DeNiro, but a list of mine would have these two near the top:

Ford/Wayne
Ford/Fonda

 

[lazarus]

Tough to beat Scorsese/DeNiro, but a list of mine would have these two near the top:

Ford/Wayne

I can't believe I forgot this one.

Also, under least favorite, how about:

Scott/Crowe

I don't actively dislike any of their pairings, but considering all the hype they haven't exactly yielded great results.

 

[No spoken words]

there

Sorry, but I'll hang on to Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Mean Streets, The King of Comedy and Casino.

And, as I said above, an expanded list of mine would include Scorsese/DiCaprio.

 

[lazarus]

You forgot New York, New York and Cape Fear, punk.

 

[Dalton]

Sorry, but I'll hang on to Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Mean Streets, The King of Comedy and Casino.

And, as I said above, an expanded list of mine would include Scorsese/DiCaprio.

Perhaps I was unclear when I wrote, "there". I meant "there".

 

[hardyharhar]

I can't believe I forgot this one.

Henry Fonda and Ford have quite a track record(My Darling Clementine, Grapes of Wrath, Fort Apache, Young Mr. Lincoln, Mister Roberts...).

But between the two, Ford/Wayne in a landslide:

Fort Apache
The Quiet Man
Rio Grande
The Searchers
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Stagecoach
They Were Expendable

probably a couple more I'm missing


Kurosawa had that one guy who was in a bunch. Can't imagine Throne of Blood without him

 

[No spoken words]

Perhaps I was unclear when I wrote, "there". I meant "there".

You're dense today.