Best Film Collaborations

Posted by Freakin Meow on July 9, 2008 at 6:56am in About Movies

There are a number of actors, directors, composers, et al. that seem to work together ALOT. For instance, Johnny Depp and Tim Burton have collaborated on 6... count them SIX... different movies. And it works!

Another example from the nineties... Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.

Somehow these collaborations result in something bigger than the two individuals. Can you think of some other great collaborations that resulted in a series of successful movies?

Sometimes two heads ARE better than one!

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Permalink Reply by MovieGirl on July 12, 2008 at 1:32am: Oh yeah, I forgot about that one. Was he actually obsessed with her feet?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by beeswax on July 12, 2008 at 1:48am: There are a lot of shots of her feet in the Kill Bill flix, and he mentioned them in more than one interview at the time. They have very long toes, as one might expect from such a tall, lanky person.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by MovieGirl on July 12, 2008 at 1:46pm: Hmmm - too much info, Bees, more than I needed, but thanks anyway! Ha; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by beeswax on July 12, 2008 at 10:00pm: You asked....; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Freakin Meow on July 13, 2008 at 6:04am: What's not to love??; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by spiderpig on July 13, 2008 at 7:47am: Quentin definitely has a foot fetish. There's also that scene focusing on Rosario' Dawson's feet in Death Proof. So it all started with Uma?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by beeswax on July 13, 2008 at 1:46pm: Gosh, that sounds like a chicken/egg question, spiderpig.

My scar fetish didn't start with Joaquin Phoenix...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by leela42 on July 11, 2008 at 7:45pm: John Waters and Mink Stole; John Waters and Divine, to a lesser extent. Of debatable distinction, hehe.

Sydney Pollack and Robert Redford

Spike Lee and John Turturro

Woody Allen and Diane Keaton, Mia Farrow, Tony Roberts; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by leela42 on July 11, 2008 at 9:07pm: >oops, repeat on Spike Lee and John Turturro. my bad.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by beeswax on July 14, 2008 at 10:01pm: Speaking of Woody Allen, his collaborations with Marshall Brickman resulted in three of his best movies -- Sleeper, Annie Hall, and Manhattan. (And one of my least favorite -- Manhattan Murder Mystery -- but I guess other people like it.)

He's also had some pretty significant collaborations with cinematographers, especially Gordon Willis (who shot Annie Hall, Manhattan, Purple Rose of Cairo, Zelig, Interiors, Stardust Memories, etcetera...)

He also hired Bergman's great collaborator Sven Nykvist to shoot a few, including Crimes and Misdemeanors, Another Woman, and New York Stories.

And he's worked a heck of a lot with the less well-known Carlo Di Palma, including on Radio Days and Shadows and Fog, two pictures for which you know Woody had to have a specific look in mind.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Flix_Lover on July 11, 2008 at 8:52pm: I've enjoyed majority of collaboration between George Lucas and Steven Spielberg.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Guy on July 11, 2008 at 9:15pm: Let's not forget the Three Stooges!
Esteemed biographer and psychoanalytic theorist Y. U. I. Autta writes, "The Three Stooges embody the awkwardness of the historic immigrant experience in America, an immersion in a strange and sometimes hostile new culture. Thus, they are unconsciously identified with by adolescent males who are, in a sense, immigrating to a new culture; namely the difficult transition to masculine adulthood... Furthermore, each of the Stooges corresponds to an ego state: Curly, being the Id, Larry, the Ego, and. of course, Moe, the Superego."

(Photo courtesy of the Larry Fine Archive: "I've seen the future, and it's Fine!"; ▶ Reply to This