Director/Actor Best Film #36: Lee & Jackson

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Our last pair of Alfred Hitchcock and Cary Grant score a comfortable win with North By Northwest.

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)

25) Director/Actor Best Film #25: Coppola & Pacino------The Godfather Part Two (17 Votes) ( RU: The Godfather 11 votes)

26) Director/Actor Best Film #26: Nichols & Streep-------Angels In America (11 Votes) ( RU: Silkwood 3 votes)

27) Director/Actor Best Film #27: Kurosawa & Mifune------ Seven Samurai (5 Votes) (RU: High And Low 4 votes)

28) Director/Actor Best Film #28: McDonagh & Farrell------In Bruges (13 Votes) (RU: The Banshees Of Inerishin 9 votes)

29) Director/Actor Best Film #29: Allen & Keaton------ (Annie Hall 8 Votes) ( Manhattan 8 Votes) (RU: Love and Death 4 votes)

30) Director/Actor Best Film #30: Burton & Depp----- ( Ed Wood 14 Votes) (RU: Sleepy Hollow 7 votes)

31) Director/Actor Best Film #31: Almodovar & Cruz------- ( Volver 8 votes) ( RU: All About My Mother 5 votes)

32) Director/Actor Best Film #32: Lee & Washington --------
( Malcolm X 13 Votes) (RU: Inside Man 11 votes)

33) Director/Actor Best Film #33: Penn & Hackman------ ( Bonnie And Clyde 8 Votes) ( RU: Night Moves 7 votes)

34) Director/Actor Best Film #34 : Zemeckis & Hanks------( Forrest Gump 12 Votes) ( RU: Cast Away 6 votes)

35) Director/Actor Best Film #35: Hitchcock & Grant----- ( North By Northwest 12 Votes) ( RU: Notorious 6 votes)

Next up Spike Lee and Samuel L Jackson, who have made 6 films together.

mikediastavrone96 Global Moderator "One must imagine Sisyphus happy." Posts: 5,388 Likes: 5,891	Director/Actor Best Film #36: Lee & Jackson Jun 6, 2024 14:33:02 GMT pupdurcs and sirchuck23 like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by mikediastavrone96 on Jun 6, 2024 14:33:02 GMT Best film is Do the Right Thing. Best performance is Jungle Fever.
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Jun 6, 2024 14:39:52 GMT mikediastavrone96 said:

Also, some suggestions for this series: Ford/Wayne, Capra/Stewart, McKay/Ferrell, Cukor/K. Hepburn, Altman/Gould or Altman/Duvall, Bergman/Ullmann.

Great suggestions. This series is going to last awhile, so I feel like pretty much all of these can show up at some point.

To add, I was always intending to do Ford/Wayne, Bergman/Ullmann Capra/Stewart and Cukor/Hepburn

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Director/Actor Best Film #36: Lee & Jackson Jun 6, 2024 19:15:02 GMT sirchuck23 likes this

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Post by ibbi on Jun 6, 2024 19:15:02 GMT

I mean, Do the Right Thing is easily the best film, and his contribution to that should not be understated, but he is so fucking overwhelmingly (with an assist from Ossie and Ruby) the reason to watch the otherwise pretty whatever Jungle Fever that it's tough not to pick that.

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Director/Actor Best Film #36: Lee & Jackson Jun 7, 2024 12:30:41 GMT sirchuck23 likes this

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Yeah, it's a tough one. Do The Right Thing is objectively the best film, but Jungle Fever is the more definitive collaboration between Lee and Jackson. On that grounds, my vote goes to Jungle Fever.

And truly, Jungle Fever is the performance that put Jackson on the map before Quentin Tarantino tapped him for Pulp Fiction.

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Director/Actor Best Film #36: Lee & Jackson Jun 7, 2024 15:23:00 GMT therealcomicman117 and pupdurcs like this

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Post by sirchuck23 on Jun 7, 2024 15:23:00 GMT

I'm going with Jungle Fever. Do The Right Thing is the better film obviously, but his performance in Jungle Fever was just soul-crushing and brilliant. So brilliant the Cannes Jury made up a Supporting actor award just to give to him. One of his top 3 performances imo.

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Director/Actor Best Film #36: Lee & Jackson Jun 7, 2024 15:31:51 GMT pupdurcs and sirchuck23 like this

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Post by therealcomicman117 on Jun 7, 2024 15:31:51 GMT

Well Do the Right Thing is Lee's Mona Lisa, but Jungle Fever would probably be considered Jackson's first moment of recognition, so I might go with that one.

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