Analysis Of 5 Billiant Film-Makers And Their Brilliant Muses
5 More Brilliant Film-Makers and their Brilliant Muses
Recently we had a look at 5 Brilliant Film-Makers and their Brilliant Muses, which spotlit the magical pairings of Michelangelo Antonioni and Monica Vitti, Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina, Quentin Tarantino & Uma Thurman, Pedro Almodóvar and Penelope Cruz as well as Tim Burton & Johnny Depp.
Here we explore five more film-makers and their muses.
Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich
An Austrian-American film-maker, Sternberg is best remembered for his play of light and shadows. His films including “Morocco” (1930), “Dishonored” (1931) and “Shanghai Express” (1932) are studied even today for the magic he could create with just a combination of lenses and lights and close-ups. He first …show more content…
Though she was a very ordinary actor, he was a task master, she was driven, and they together created her persona as a glamorous enchantress, and seduced the world and each other with it. Within a year she was nominated by the Academy for Morocco, and with Dishonored and especially the massively successful Shanghai Express, Dietrich transformed into a Hollywood legend.
John Ford and John Wayne
Ford and his films have always been highly regarded, by critics, colleagues and audiences, and many film maestros like Ingmar Bergman, Frank Capra, Orson Welles, Stayajit Ray, Akira Kurosawa named him amongst the greatest directors of all time. He on the other hand considered Wayne as the best actor of his time and played a major role in his career. Ford was quoted as saying, “He'll be the biggest star ever because he is the perfect 'everyman.
They built a partnership spanning decades, and made a staggering 24 films together, over one-fifth of Ford's massive oeuvre of around 140 films. These include several successful Westerns like “Stagecoach” (1939), “The Searchers” (1956), and “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” …show more content…
According to Woody it was only because of Keaton that his women characters started becoming more powerful, nuanced and real. The two first worked together in his theatrical version of “Play It Again, Sam”, and were soon dating.
Allen directed her in several memorable films including “Play It Again, Sam” (1972), “Sleeper” (1973), the critically and commercially successful “Manhattan” (1979) and perhaps their most successful film together, “Annie Hall (1977)”, which won her a BAFTA, a Golden Globe and her first academy for Best Female Actor.
Martin Scorsese & Robert DeNiro
Although some would say that Scorsese has replaced DeNiro with Leo, and so we might as well do so too, history will take quite a while, if at all, before this pairing can be overwritten. No other pair has in contemporary times redefined cinema as much as these two. Four of the nine films they have collaborated on, “Mean Streets” (1973), “Taxi Driver” (1976), “Raging Bull” (1980) and “GoodFellas” (1990) are considered to be amongst the greatest films ever made. Raging Bull earned De Niro his only Academy Award for Best
Recently we had a look at 5 Brilliant Film-Makers and their Brilliant Muses, which spotlit the magical pairings of Michelangelo Antonioni and Monica Vitti, Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina, Quentin Tarantino & Uma Thurman, Pedro Almodóvar and Penelope Cruz as well as Tim Burton & Johnny Depp.
Here we explore five more film-makers and their muses.
Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich
An Austrian-American film-maker, Sternberg is best remembered for his play of light and shadows. His films including “Morocco” (1930), “Dishonored” (1931) and “Shanghai Express” (1932) are studied even today for the magic he could create with just a combination of lenses and lights and close-ups. He first …show more content…
Though she was a very ordinary actor, he was a task master, she was driven, and they together created her persona as a glamorous enchantress, and seduced the world and each other with it. Within a year she was nominated by the Academy for Morocco, and with Dishonored and especially the massively successful Shanghai Express, Dietrich transformed into a Hollywood legend.
John Ford and John Wayne
Ford and his films have always been highly regarded, by critics, colleagues and audiences, and many film maestros like Ingmar Bergman, Frank Capra, Orson Welles, Stayajit Ray, Akira Kurosawa named him amongst the greatest directors of all time. He on the other hand considered Wayne as the best actor of his time and played a major role in his career. Ford was quoted as saying, “He'll be the biggest star ever because he is the perfect 'everyman.
They built a partnership spanning decades, and made a staggering 24 films together, over one-fifth of Ford's massive oeuvre of around 140 films. These include several successful Westerns like “Stagecoach” (1939), “The Searchers” (1956), and “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” …show more content…
According to Woody it was only because of Keaton that his women characters started becoming more powerful, nuanced and real. The two first worked together in his theatrical version of “Play It Again, Sam”, and were soon dating.
Allen directed her in several memorable films including “Play It Again, Sam” (1972), “Sleeper” (1973), the critically and commercially successful “Manhattan” (1979) and perhaps their most successful film together, “Annie Hall (1977)”, which won her a BAFTA, a Golden Globe and her first academy for Best Female Actor.
Martin Scorsese & Robert DeNiro
Although some would say that Scorsese has replaced DeNiro with Leo, and so we might as well do so too, history will take quite a while, if at all, before this pairing can be overwritten. No other pair has in contemporary times redefined cinema as much as these two. Four of the nine films they have collaborated on, “Mean Streets” (1973), “Taxi Driver” (1976), “Raging Bull” (1980) and “GoodFellas” (1990) are considered to be amongst the greatest films ever made. Raging Bull earned De Niro his only Academy Award for Best