Director/Actor Best Film #25 : Coppola & Pacino

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Director/Actor Best Film #25 : Coppola & Pacino Apr 25, 2024 15:23:22 GMT sirchuck23 likes this

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Our last pair of Christopher Nolan & Christian Bale win comfortably with The Dark Knight

1) Director/ Actor Best Film #1: Scorsese & DeNiro-------Goodfellas (17 votes) (RU Taxi Driver 10 votes)

2) Director/Actor Best Film #2: Fincher & Pitt----- Seven ( 19 votes) ( RU: Fight Club 13 votes)

3) Director/ Actor Best Film # 3: Spielberg & Hanks-----Saving Private Ryan ( 15 votes) ( RU: Catch Me If You Can 12 votes)

4) Director/Actor Best Film #4: Coppola & Dunst------ The Virgin Suicides ( 10 votes) ( RU: Marie Antoinette 9 votes)

5) Director/Actor Best Film #5: Haynes & Moore------ Safe ( 10 Votes)
(RU: Far From Heaven 9 votes)

6 ) Director/ Actor Best Film #6: Rafelson & Nicholson------- Five Easy Pieces (12 Votes) ( RU: The King Of Marvin Gardens 4 votes)

7) Director/Actor Best Film #7: Sheridan & Day-Lewis------ In The Name Of The Father ( 16 Votes) ( RU: My Left Foot 3 votes)

8) Director/ Actor Best Film #8 : Scott & Washington---- Crimson Tide (6 Votes) & Deja Vu ( 6 Votes) ( RU: Man On Fire 5 votes)

9) Director/ Actor Best Film #9: Carpenter & Russell--------The Thing (15 Votes)
( RU: Big Trouble In Little China 3 votes)

10) Director/Actor Best Film #10: Kazan & Brando------- A Streetcar Named Desire (12 Votes) ( RU: On The Waterfront 9 votes)

11) Director/Actor Best Film #11: McQueen & Fassbender-------12 Years A Slave ( 11 Votes) ( RU: Hunger 7 votes)

12) Director/Actor Best Film #12: Scott & Crowe------ Gladiator (19 Votes) ( RU: American Gangster 6 votes)

13) Director/ Actor Best Film #13: Russell & Lawrence------ Silver Linings Playbook ( 17 Votes) ( RU: American Hustle 4 votes)

14) Director/ Actor Best Film #14: Scorsese & DiCaprio-------- The Wolf Of Wall Street ( 12 Votes)
( RU: The Departed 8 votes)

15) Director/Actor Best Film #15: Tarantino & Jackson------ Pulp Fiction (21 Votes) ( RU: Jackie Brown 6 votes)

16) Director/ Actor Best Film #16: Landis & Murphy------ Trading Places ( 9 Votes)
( RU: Coming To America 5 votes)

17) Director/ Actor Best Film #17: Anderson & Hoffman-------The Master (16 Votes) ( RU: Boogie Nights 12 Votes)

18) Director/Actor Best Film #18 : Hitchcock & Stewart------Vertigo (16 Votes) (RU: Rear Window 15 votes)

19) Director/Actor Best Film #19: Eastwood & Freeman-------Unforgiven (21 Votes) ( RU: Invictus 2 votes)

20) Director/Actor Best Film # 20: Huston & Bogart------The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (14 Votes) (RU: The Maltese Falcon 4 votes)

21) Director/Actor Best Film #21: Cronenberg & Mortensen-------A History Of Violence (14 Votes)
( RU: Eastern Promises 5 votes)

22) Director/Actor Best Film #22: Coogler & Jordan--------Creed (13 Votes) ( RU: Black Panther 4 votes)

23) Director/Actor Best Film #23: Coen Brothers & McDormand--------Fargo (13 Votes) (RU: Barton Fink 4 votes) (RU: The Tragedy Of Macbeth 4 votes)

24) Director/Actor Best Film #24: Nolan & Bale -------The Dark Knight(17 Votes) (RU: The Prestige 7 votes)

I've deliberately avoided doing pairings with less than 3 films together (hence, no Nicole Kidman so far, because she's never collaborated with any director more than twice) and those whose only collaborations have been the same series of films and their sequels.

I'm making an exception today for avoiding the same series and only sequels pair, because it's Al Pacino's birthday :party:

. So in honor of that, our next pair is Francis Ford Coppola & Al Pacino, who made 3 films together ( I'm counting The Godfather Coda as a different edit of the same film, The Godfather Part Three. Not another film. So if you want to vote Coda, vote Part Three)

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mikediastavrone96 Global Moderator "One must imagine Sisyphus happy." Posts: 5,054 Likes: 5,628	Director/Actor Best Film #25 : Coppola & Pacino Apr 25, 2024 15:27:06 GMT pupdurcs likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by mikediastavrone96 on Apr 25, 2024 15:27:06 GMT I'm a Part II guy through and through and am one of those who think big Al's work there is the finest in film history.
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Director/Actor Best Film #25 : Coppola & Pacino Apr 25, 2024 15:42:54 GMT sirchuck23 likes this

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Yeah, I'm going to vote The Godfather Part Two as both their best film together and Pacino's best performance for Coppola ( and his best performance in general). Legendary, all-time great work by both men.

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ibbi God Tier "Batman's a scientist" Posts: 5,496 Likes: 4,898	Director/Actor Best Film #25 : Coppola & Pacino Apr 25, 2024 16:27:06 GMT pupdurcs and sirchuck23 like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by ibbi on Apr 25, 2024 16:27:06 GMT Happy birthday, Godfather! Numero uno is numero uno.

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Director/Actor Best Film #25 : Coppola & Pacino Apr 25, 2024 19:23:11 GMT sirchuck23 likes this

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Anyone else thinks it's a crying shame that we never got Apocalypse Now to add to the roster of collaborations between these two titans?

Martin Sheen was fantastic as Willard, so I don't think the film really suffers from not having Pacino in the role, as he was originally offered. But it still would have been a great alternative.

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Director/Actor Best Film #25 : Coppola & Pacino Apr 25, 2024 19:44:44 GMT via mobile pupdurcs likes this

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The Godfather Part II

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Director/Actor Best Film #25 : Coppola & Pacino Apr 26, 2024 17:09:44 GMT via mobile pacinoyes likes this

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Post by franklin on Apr 26, 2024 17:09:44 GMT

I remember reading somewhere that Pacino said that he rejected Apocalypse Now because he knew it would have been an incredibly grueling shoot, and he simply didn't want to do it, something in the vein of "I'm not going to be in the mud for six months while you stay above me yelling with the megaphone from an helicopter".

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Director/Actor Best Film #25 : Coppola & Pacino Apr 26, 2024 17:14:55 GMT

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Apr 26, 2024 17:09:44 GMT franklin said:

I remember reading somewhere that Pacino said that he rejected Apocalypse Now because he knew it would have been an incredibly grueling shoot, and he simply didn't want to do it, something in the vein of "I'm not going to be in the mud for seven months while you stay above me yelling with the megaphone from an helicopter".

I am pretty sure it ties in to him getting sick in GF 2 when they shot it in the Dominican Republic (for the Cuba scenes maybe?) too so he had that in his head too.........Pacino was incredibly sheltered early in his career ............he didn't like to travel........so many of his early films are set in NYC and probably picked because of that........Pacino didn't even have a driver's license until Bobby Deerfield when he played a car driver ffs..........he was 37 :laugh: