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• • ScottFree

    Jun 11th 2012, 7:23

    number 47.... Steven Spielberg directed Harrison Ford more than three times, Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Temple Of Doom, Last Crusade, Kingdom and the cameo in E.T. Oh and witch 3 Tom Cruise movies did he directed, I can only name Minority Report and War of The Worlds, as with Tom Hanks I can only think of Saving Private Ryan and The Terminal....what am I missing?

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  • Tyrunn

    Jun 11th 2012, 9:23

    #35 The Bridge Over The River Kwai? Am I to assume that's the Asylum remake of The Bridge On The River Kwai? This is a film magazine's website right?

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  • Toursiveu

    Jun 11th 2012, 9:25

    Elia Kazan didn't die in the seventies... He died in 2003, a year before Brando.

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  • Hadouken76

    Jun 11th 2012, 9:29

    I'm just bored to tears of the Burton / Depp / Carter love-ins. "Oh you hired your best friend and your missus AGAIN? You really are spoiling us."

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  • JoseyWales

    Jun 11th 2012, 12:08

    Steven Spielberg directed Tom Hanks in Catch Me if you Can, as well as The Terminal and Saving Private Ryan. Can't think of the other Tom Cruise movie though.

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  • CaptainCrazy

    Jun 11th 2012, 12:16

    Nicolas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling are doing some magical s**t together.

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  • sinemaestro

    Jun 11th 2012, 12:42

    also keep in mind; Lindsay Anderson & Malcolm McDowell, Ingmar Bergman & Max von Sydow, Michael Curtiz & Errol Flynn, David Lean & Alec Guinness, Luc Besson & Jean Reno, Francis Veber & Gerard Depardieu, Kenneth Branagh & Emma Thompson, Jim Sheridan & Daniel Day Lewis, Mel Brooks & Gene Wilder, Tod Browning & Lon Chaney, Terence Fisher & Christopher Lee, Frank Capra & Jean Arthur, John Cassavetes & Gena Rowlands, Claude Chabrol & Isabelle Huppert, James Ivory & Anthony Hopkins, Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Dominique Pinon, Neil Jordan & Stephen Rea, Lawrence Kasdan & Kevin Kline, Aki Kaurismäki & Kati Outinen, Spike Lee & Denzel Washington, Sergio Leone & Clint Eastwood, Richard Linklater & Ethan Hawke, David Lynch & Kyle MacLachlan, Louis Malle & Jeanne Moreau, Garry Marshall & Héctor Elizondo, Roman Polanski & Emmanuelle Seigner, Sydney Pollack & Robert Redford, Martin Ritt & Paul Newman, Sam Raimi & Bruce Campbell, Satyajit Ray & Soumitra Chatterjee, Robert Rodriguez & Danny Trejo, Ken Russell & Glenda Jackson, Nicolas Roeg & Theresa Russell, Joel Schumacher & Kiefer Sutherland, Vittorio De Sica & Sophia Loren, Douglas Sirk & Rock Hudson, Kevin Smith & Ben Affleck, Andrei Tarkovsky & Anatoly Solonitsyn, Guillermo del Toro & Doug Jones, Peter Jackson & Andy Serkis, Wes Craven & Robert Englund, Paul Verhoeven & Rutger Hauer, Charles Vidor & Rita Hayworth, John Waters & Divine, Kar-wai Wong & Tony Leung Chiu-Wai.

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  • Toursiveu

    Jun 11th 2012, 12:54

    What about... Paul Verhoeven & Rutger Hauer, Richard Donner & Mel Gibson, David Lynch & Jack Nance, David Lynch & Harry Dean Stanton, Brian De Palma & William Finley, Ken Russell & Oliver Reed, Stuart Gordon & Jeffre Combs, Robert Rodriguez & Antonio Banderas / Salma Hayek / Danny Trejo, Ron Howard & Clint Howard, Aaron Norris & Chuck Norris, Roger Corman & Dick Miller, Kevin Smith & Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith & Ben Affleck, Kevin Smith & Jason Lee, Tsui Hark & Jet Li, Dario Argnto & Asia Argento, John Cassavetes & Peter Falk (or Ben Gazzara), Clint Eastwood & Geoffrey Lewis, Frank Darabont & Jeffrey DeMunn, Lawrence Kasdan & Kevin Kline, Richard Attenborough & Anthony Hopkins, Joel Schumacher & Kiefer Sutherland, Walter Hill & Brion James, Spike Lee & Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Altman & Shelley Duvall, John Sayles & David Strathairn, Paul Schrader & Willem Dafoe, The Coen Brothers & John Goodman (or Steve Buscemi), Martin Scorsese & Harvey Keitel, Jean Cocteau & Jean Marais, Costa-Gavras & Yves Montand, Terence Fisher & Christopher Lee (or Peter Cushing), Joe Dante & Robert Picardo, David Mamet & Rebecca Pidgeon, David Mamet & William H. Macy, Blake Edwards & Julie Andrews, Guillermo Del Toro & Ron Perlman, Wes Anderson & Owen Wilson, Jonathan Demme & Charles Napier, Lars Von Trier & Udo Kier, Neil Jordan & Stephen Rea, Bertrand Tavernier & Philippe Noiret, Jack Lee Thompson & Charles Bronson, Henry Verneuil & Jean-Paul Belmondo, Michael Winner & Charles Bronson, Enzo G. Castellari & Franco Nero, Jacques Deray & Alain Delon, Spike Lee & John Turturro, Christopher Guest & Michael McKean, Harry Schearer, Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy, Bob Balaban and the rest of their friends... and most importantly, John Waters & Divine!!!???

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  • Hadouken76

    Jun 11th 2012, 15:03

    Jason Flemyn has done a few with Matthew Vaughn. Charles Napier and Jonathan Demme...sorry, didnt mean the list to be quite so big lol..

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  • Desperation

    Jun 11th 2012, 16:18

    Whilst Kurosawa & Mifune is certainly one of my favourite director/actor combos, i think Kurosawa & Takashi Shimura is equally important. Perhaps more so as he did more films with Shimura and with Mifune (although probably half of them had both in).

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  • gregbreen1

    Jun 11th 2012, 18:45

    I can't believe in 50 choices there was no room for Stephen Rea and Neil Jordan. They have made nine films together, one that resulted in an Oscar win for Jordan and a nom for Rea. It also kicked off the MIRAMAX revolution of the 1990s....wth?

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  • CSB23

    Jun 12th 2012, 0:03

    Great list, but where is Leo DiCaprio and Scorsese? Should have been top 5.

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  • hellomkat

    Jun 12th 2012, 0:39

    Second about Leo and Scorsese. Clearly a match made in cinematic heaven. Gangs of New York, The Departed, Shutter Island, Aviator? All epic movies. What about Clint Eastwood and Clint Eastwood? Unforgiven, Grand Tarino, come on now.

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  • youngnedyoung

    Jun 12th 2012, 5:40

    As soon as I saw this, I thought "I wonder where Shane Meadows and Paddy Considine are?" Nowhere, apparently.

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  • octopusluke

    Jun 12th 2012, 8:07

    No John Torturro and the Coens?

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  • Jeffbiscuits

    Jun 12th 2012, 9:26

    Michael Moriarty and Larry Cohen

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  • wheresmyfish93

    Jun 12th 2012, 12:50

    Surely Andrei Tarkovsky and Anatoliy Solonitsyn deserve some place on this list..

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  • Gemma2712

    Jun 12th 2012, 16:20

    @CaptainCrazy, I couldn't agree with you more! Can't wait to see what they do in the future. I was also quite surprised that Leo and Scorsese were absent, but a great list nonetheless.

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  • MorganRoss

    Jun 12th 2012, 18:49

    @ScottFree and JoseyWales, tenuous link but Spielberg also directed Tom Cruise in Austin p***y, the famous Austin Powers movie within Goldmember.

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  • Ichi1

    Jun 12th 2012, 20:23

    Number 11 should be moved to number 1.

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  • Hadouken76

    Jun 14th 2012, 13:19

    How could you forget Tuna and Sweetcorn?

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  • bencobra

    Jun 15th 2012, 15:42

    @CSB and GregBreen1. Jordan and Rea is an excellent shout. I don't think Scorsese and DiCaprio should be in. Out of the 5 movies they have done together there is not one the stands out as a classic. Shutter Island is a vary weak adaptation of a far superior book, The Departed is an inferior remake of the original, Gangs Of New York features an awful Di Caprio performance and The Aviator was only ok. As to Spielberg and Cruise, could the other film be Austin Powers Goldmember?

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  • bencobra

    Jun 15th 2012, 15:42

    Apologies for my awful grammar in the above post

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  • mcnpauls

    Jun 16th 2012, 8:46

    What about Stanley Kubrick and Peter Sellers? They may only have made two films together, but they were both masterpeices and Sellers played at least 4 unforgettable characters in them (I'd say his Quilty in Lolita is verging on his playing multiple roles, too). Terrence Fisher and Peter Cushing or Christopher Lee? Utterly bored with "acclaimed" Burton-Depp partnership: "Edward Scissorhands" and "Ed Wood" were great, everything else they've done has been mediocre to dreadful. This is the height of unfashionability, but Jean Jacques Annaud and Ron Perlman have done some good work together.

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