The United States Postal Service gives four filmmakers its stamp of approval.
t e nn i n e d i r e c t o r s a n d t h e i r m u s e s
i know, i could have chosen different ‘couples’ and i don’t even know if the word ‘muse’ is appropraite… yeah, it’s very subjective :)Joe Wright and Keira Knightley (3 movies) | Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro (9 movies) | David Fincher and Brad Pitt (3 movies) | Billy Wilder and Jack Lemmon (7 movies) | Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thruman (3 movies) | Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune (16 movies) | Tim Burton and Johnny Depp (8 movies) | Alfred Hitchcock and Grace Kelly (3 movies) | Francois Truffaut and Jean Pierre Leaud (7 movies) | Frank Capra and James Stewart (3 movies) | Martin Scorsese and Leonardo Dicaprio (4 movies) | Sydney Pollack and Robert Redford (7 movies)
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Billy Wilder with his six Oscar statuettes, three of which he’d only just won the previous night for writing, producing and directing Best Picture winner The Apartment. Los Angeles, California, April 18th, 1961.
⇨ Sunset Boulevard (1950)
The whole place seemed to have been stricken with a kind of creeping paralysis - out of beat with the rest of the world, crumbling apart in slow motion.
Flawless film.
All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up. — Norma Desmond, Sunset Boulevard (1950)
I love love love this movie so much. And that line… amazing…
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“A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.” - Billy Wilder
