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Best Actor/Director Teams: Now Disc. Humphrey Bogart/John Huston
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Drac39
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3/7 1:40pm
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RE: Best Actor/Director Teams: Now Disc. David Cronenberg/Viggo Mortensen
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Two very good films but I feel it's a little early to say this is a main star collaboration
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darth_frared
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3/8 6:45am
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RE: Best Actor/Director Teams: Now Disc. David Cronenberg/Viggo Mortensen
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they bring out good things in each other i feel.
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Zaz
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3/8 7:27am
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RE: Best Actor/Director Teams: Now Disc. David Cronenberg/Viggo Mortensen
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Not true of the next combo:
Tony Scott/Denzel Washington
"Crimson Tide", "Man of Fire" and the upcoming "The Taking of Pelham 123"; when Denzel feels like a potboiler, Scott is his man. He should get someone else, IMO.
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Jango10
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3/8 12:27pm
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RE: Best Actor/Director Teams: Now Disc. Tony Scott/Denzel Washington
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Man on Fire is my favorite Tony Scott film, and one of my favorite Denzel films.
I'm probably in the minority, but I also thought that Deja Vu was a hella fun movie.
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Zaz
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3/9 12:19am
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RE: Best Actor/Director Teams: Now Disc. Tony Scott/Denzel Washington
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Next: Mel Brooks/Gene Wilder
Three movies together: "The Producers", "Blazing Saddles" & "Young Frankenstein"
Wilder is great in all three of the movies...the best is last. But thereafter, he seems to have imagined that he could do his job and Brooks' too. Nothing after that is much worth watching, and I hate "The Silver Streak."
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Dc_10
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3/9 2:48pm
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RE: Best Actor/Director Teams: Now Disc. Mel Brooks/Gene Wilder
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They gave us Young Frankenstein which is pure gold!
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Zaz
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3/10 8:22am
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RE: Best Actor/Director Teams: Now Disc. Mel Brooks/Gene Wilder
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Next: Alfred Hitchcock/James Stewart
Four movies: "Rope", "Rear Window", "The Man Who Knew Too Much" and "Vertigo."
In the 40's and 50's, Hitchcock used two actors four times: Stewart and Cary Grant. He brought out things in their personas (we will discuss Grant next) that few others did. Stewart was the director's alter ego for serious, neurotic, often painful ambivilence about family life (RW and TMWKTM), and obsession (R, RW, and especially V). Stewart's performance in the film widely held to be Hitchcock's masterpiece, "Vertigo" is a revelation.
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Drac39
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3/10 7:44pm
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RE: Best Actor/Director Teams: Now Disc. Alfred Hitchcock/James Stewart
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Jimmy Stewart's best pictures were his collaborations with Hitch. Hitchcock showed that he was more than the nice guy he was all most typecasted as
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Zaz
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3/10 8:03pm
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RE: Best Actor/Director Teams: Now Disc. Alfred Hitchcock/James Stewart
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In "Vertigo" he is obsessed, neurotic and crazy. We buy it. He's fearless.
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solojones
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3/10 9:26pm
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RE: Best Actor/Director Teams: Now Disc. Alfred Hitchcock/James Stewart
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Who can really deny the brilliance of this duo? Hitch was famously great at casting against type or at least twisting the mold when he wasn't breaking it. None of Stewart's roles in Hitch films are the simple funny nice guy he played so well in other films. But he was still great. Hitch's films with Stewart benefited from his talent, even in smaller roles like in Rope. I am hard pressed to think of a better team, actually. Perhaps Alec Guinness and David Lean comes to mind in terms of the iconic nature of all the films they did together, but Hitchcock and Stewart probably covered a more striking variety of roles.
-sj loves kevin spacey
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Zaz
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3/11 8:04am
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RE: Best Actor/Director Teams: Now Disc. Alfred Hitchcock/James Stewart
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Next: Alfred Hitchcock and Cary Grant
Both Brits in Hollywood (Grant was from Bristol, Hitchcock was a Cockney from London), both very talented, if Stewart played Hitchcock as he was, Grant was Hitchcock's fantasy projection of himself. Grant started as an acrobat in vaudeville (music hall is the Brit version), and Hitchcock as an art director in a small London studio. Grant was handsome and graceful; Hitchcock small and tubby. But they were self-created, self-made men, and despite Grant's tendency to complain, Hitchcock really enjoyed his company. Hitchcock always brought out a hard vein of selfishness and contemptuousness in Grant, which lifted him up from his lightweight comedies. Their four movies: "Suspicion"; "Notorious"; "To Catch a Thief" and "North by Northwest". All are good..."Suspicion" unfairly neglected. He plays a suspected murderer. In TCAT, he plays a suspected thief. In N and NBN, he is a man who has to pimp his girlfriend to elegant spies. (Claude Rains and James Mason)
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yankee8255
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3/11 8:31am
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RE: Best Actor/Director Teams: Now Disc. Alfred Hitchcock/Cary Grant
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I caught a bit of NxNW the other night. Even dubbed into German, it's absolutely brilliant.
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soitscometothis
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3/11 4:52pm
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RE: Best Actor/Director Teams: Now Disc. Alfred Hitchcock/Cary Grant
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The Hitchcock/Stewart and the Hitchcock/Grant combinations produced classics, but this shouldn't be such a great surprise: I would point out that both leading men were obscenely talented (I struggle to think of a bad performance from either one of them), and combined with Hitchcock, who is surely one of the greatest directors ever, it would have been weird if they didn't produce great movies. I think Hitchcock stretched Stewart farther than he did Grant, but then I doubt that Grant ever wanted an audience to see him go anywhere near as dark as Stewart in Vertigo.
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JohnWesleyDowney
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3/11 7:18pm
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RE: Best Actor/Director Teams: Now Disc. Alfred Hitchcock/Cary Grant
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VERTIGO and NORTH BY NORTHWEST, two of my all-time favorite movies...and to be sure it's the dynamite combo of Hitch/Stewart and Hitch/Grant that put them there.
I think for what it is, a light suspense action piece with a dry comedic edge, NORTH BY NORTHWEST, is the gold standard. I think I read somewhere it was Grant's highest grossing film of his career.
Great line, delivered superbly by Grant in NBNW:
"You're the smartest girl I ever spent the night with on a train." 
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Zaz
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Date Posted:
3/12 6:16am
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RE: Best Actor/Director Teams: Now Disc. Alfred Hitchcock/Cary Grant
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The crop-dusting sequence in NxNW, which is silent, is a stunner.
Next: Marlon Brando/Elia Kazan
3 movies: "A Streetcar Named Desire", "Viva Zapata" and "On the Waterfront"
Foundered on politics, to the detriment of both of them. Kazan never found a leading man that suited him as well, and Brando went into his first(but not his last) career tailspin.
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