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Best Actor/Director Teams: Now Disc. Humphrey Bogart/John Huston
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annie_skywalker001
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3/16 7:38am
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RE: Best Actor/Director Teams: Now Disc. Martin Scorsese/Leonardo DiCaprio
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DiCaprio is a fantastic actor and Scorsese really brings out the best in him. The Departed was brilliant, DiCaprio really held his own against Nicholson.
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Zaz
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Date Posted:
3/17 7:02am
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RE: Best Actor/Director Teams: Now Disc. Martin Scorsese/Leonardo DiCaprio
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Next: Joe Wright/Keira Knightley
Two movies: "Pride and Prejudice" and "Atonement". The former was good; the latter I haven't seen. Knightley is a good actress, if a trifle boney.
She is not in his next movie "The Soloist", which sounds dire.
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Zaz
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Date Posted:
3/18 6:06pm
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RE: Best Actor/Director Teams: Now Disc. Joe Wright/Keira Knightley
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John Ford had a long history in the movies (starting in the very early talkies), and he liked to work with people he knew. His first star was Harry Carey, Sr. Ford had a falling out with him (which would become a pattern--often the reasons were obscure), and moved on to George O'Brien, a handsome, rather dumb leading man. They fell out, too, again for obscure reasons, and Ford worked with a variety of people for a period thereafter. He hired John Wayne when he was an impecunious college student, and gave him grip work and walk-ons. Raoul Walsh offered Wayne the lead in a big film "The Big Trail". Ford was offended when Wayne accepted the offer. Unfortunately, the film tanked, and Wayne spent nearly a decade in cheap Westerns before Ford offered him the lead in "Stagecoach." That succeeded, and Wayne and Ford made film after film in the next twenty or so years. Usually he alternated him with Henry Fonda (at least until the mid-50's).
The List:
Donovan's Reef (1963)
How the West Was Won (1962) (segment "The Civil War")
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
The Horse Soldiers (1959)
The Wings of Eagles (1957)
The Searchers (1956)
The Quiet Man (1952)
Rio Grande (1950)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
3 Godfathers (1948)
Fort Apache (1948)
... aka War Party
My Darling Clementine (1946)
... aka John Ford's My Darling Clementine (USA: complete title)
They Were Expendable (1945) (as John Ford Captain U.S.N.R.)
December 7th (1943)
... aka December 7th: The Movie (USA: video title (restored version))
The Long Voyage Home (1940)
Stagecoach (1939)
These include Wayne's best work. He and Ford had a semi-paternal relationship, and the relationship lasted until Ford's death. Ford was a very difficult man, at best, but if you could tolerate him, you had regular work.
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RX_Sith
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Date Posted:
3/18 6:50pm
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RE: Best Actor/Director Teams: Now Disc. John Ford/John Wayne
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As I have described on my Westerns thread, John Wayne's best films are the ones that John Ford has directed. There are a few exceptions (Rio Bravo, The Alamo, The Comancheros, El Dorado, True Grit, Rio Lobo, Rooster Cogburn, and The Shootist) where Wayne also did very well. He was "The Duke" and I believe that few of his movies could ever be remade as well as he did in them.
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Zaz
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Date Posted:
3/18 7:02pm
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RE: Best Actor/Director Teams: Now Disc. John Ford/John Wayne
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You missed "Red River", but you speak truly...
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Jango10
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3/18 7:24pm
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RE: Best Actor/Director Teams: Now Disc. John Ford/John Wayne
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You both speak truely. John Wayne is one of my favorite actors of all time. He and John Ford have made several near masterpieces if not true masterpieces.
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JohnWesleyDowney
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3/18 8:10pm
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RE: Best Actor/Director Teams: Now Disc. John Ford/John Wayne
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The Searchers. What a team, what a film! 
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Zaz
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Date Posted:
3/19 6:01am
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RE: Best Actor/Director Teams: Now Disc. John Ford/John Wayne
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The Cavalry trilogy is excellent, too. As is "The Quiet Man"
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Zaz
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3/19 7:53pm
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RE: Best Actor/Director Teams: Now Disc. John Ford/John Wayne
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And...the other man that Ford used a lot between 1939 and 1955 (when they had, wouldn't you know it, a falling out...this one over politics on the set of "Mr. Roberts") was Henry Fonda. He used Fonda when he wanted a more sensitive, intellectual, less overbearing leading man.
The films:
Mister Roberts (1955)
Fort Apache (1948)
The Fugitive (1947)
... aka Fugitivo, El (Mexico)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
... aka John Ford's My Darling Clementine (USA: complete title)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
I haven't seen "Young Mr. Lincoln" or "The Fugitive" but "Drums Along the Mohawk" is very entertaining; "The Grapes of Wrath" and "My Darling Clementine" very famous; "Fort Apache" is excellent (especially Fonda's performance) and "Mr. Roberts" is dull.
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Zaz
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Date Posted:
3/20 7:18pm
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RE: Best Actor/Director Teams: Now Disc. John Ford/Henry Fonda
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Next: Maureen O'Hara and John Ford.
The Wings of Eagles (1957) .... Min Wead
The Long Gray Line (1955) .... Mary O'Donnell
The Quiet Man (1952) .... Mary Kate Danaher
Rio Grande (1950) .... Mrs. Kathleen Yorke
How Green Was My Valley (1941) .... Angharad
O'Hara was an Irish actress; Hollywood tended to cast her in swashbucklers, usually shot in Technicolour to show off her extraordinary colouring. Ford, professional Irishman that he was, swooned at meeting the real thing, and their films together are generally very good, especially "The Quiet Man". All her Ford films were opposite Wayne except "The Long Gray Line" which co-starred Tyrone Power, and is very good, if not well known. The Wayne children, extras on the set of "The Quiet Man" thought Ford had a gigantic crush on her; probably right, given how lovingly he photographs her in that movie.
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Zaz
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Date Posted:
3/22 4:37pm
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RE: Best Actor/Director Teams: Now Disc. John Ford/Maureen O'Hara
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Next: Billy Wilder/Jack Lemmon
Buddy, Buddy
The Front Page (1974)
Avanti! (1972)
The Fortune Cookie (1966)
Irma la Douce (1963)
The Apartment (1960)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Wilder and Lemmon did their best work on their very first collaboration, "Some Like It Hot", in which Lemmon is sublimely funny. Alas, it was downhill from there. "The Apartment" is creepy; "Irma la Douce" is vulgar; "The Funny Cookie" is funny, but Walter Matthau has the decent role; ditto "Avanti", only it's Juliet Mills; and "The Front Page" and "Buddy, Buddy" are misfires.
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soitscometothis
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Date Posted:
3/23 9:53am
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RE: Best Actor/Director Teams: Now Disc. Billy Wilder/Jack Lemmon
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Some Like It Hot is genius.
The Apartment I really love.
Irma la Douce I liked the first time I saw it (I was probably 10 or 11), though I tried to watch it recently and was not so impressed. That might of been my mood, though.
The Fortune Cookie is pretty entertaining, but yeah, Matthau has the choice role.
Avanti I have always avoided, knowing it was older Lemon (who totally lacks charm or humour, imo).
The Front Page I gave up on, but then I'm actually not a fan of His Girl Friday, either.
Buddy, Buddy haven't seen, don't plan to.
So yeah, they had a pretty good run of movies, but not all were my cup of tea. I suppose I should bite the bullet and try some of older Lemon's movies, but my impulse is to run away.
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solojones
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3/23 10:27am
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RE: Best Actor/Director Teams: Now Disc. Billy Wilder/Jack Lemmon
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In a word- YES! Though I confess I need to see a lot more of their films together. I love them both.
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darkmole
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3/23 11:07am
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The Apartment is a great film. Why is it creepy? One of my favourites. There's a very good review of it here:
http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=67258
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Zaz
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Date Posted:
3/23 11:29am
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RE: Best Actor/Director Teams: Now Disc. Billy Wilder/Jack Lemmon
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I've discussed the reasons I hate this film so many times, I thought I was boring everybody.
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