We hope Laura Dern has a wild at heart and weird on top kind of birthday. The actress celebrates tomorrow, but we’re stealing our slice of cake a day early by taking a look at Dern’s relationship with director pal David Lynch. While the star has been busy filming Paul Thomas Anderson’s scientology-inspired drama The Master, her early career days were spent with the king of strange, Lynch. Dern’s appeared in three of the director’s films — keep in mind he’s only made 10 features since starting out in the late ’70s — and has been a unique, expansive female character in his canon, as this article from The Awl has also pointed out. It’s clear that there’s a depth to Dern’s dramatic allure Lynch greatly admires. While we hope to see the director take up with his muse once more, we thought it’d be a perfect time to celebrate a few other inspired collaborations. Click on to see some of our picks, and tell us yours, won’t you?
Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina
Anna Karina wasn’t the only muse Godard was wooed by, but the actress is the most iconic in the French New Wave pioneer’s filmography — and the movement as a whole. He discovered Karina during the beginning of her modeling career and tried to cast her in Breathless, but she refused to take off her clothes for the part. They eventually united for Petit Soldat and soon fell in love. They formed a production company together, and his relationship with the starlet was often completely intertwined with his work — showing an intimacy and range they never reached in their real-life marriage, which ended in 1967. Luckily we have Vivre Sa Vie, Alphaville, Bande à Part, Une Femme Est une Femme, and other greats to remind us of their better years together.
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Not even godard is sufficient to steer away from the american “bias” of the compilation. Substance of the muse/director relationship, not resounding names. Derek Jarman and Tilda Swinton is the very definition of that relationship. And Visconti and Helmut Berger, and so on..
Pedro and Penelope!
Johnny & Tim
Cassavates-Rowlands (and Gazzara, Falk)
Kurosawa-Mifune
Ford-Wayne
Fellini-Mastroianni
Antonioni-Vitti
Truffaut-Leaud
Wong Kar-Wai-Tony Leung
Spike Lee-Washington
Zhang Yimou-Gong Li
Pollack-Redford
Herzog-Kinski
and I just got started…….
Hughes and Ringwald.
@NickE: hot
McQueen and Fassbender
I would add Almodóvar and Carmen Maura, and later with Penélope.
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Fassbinder-Schygulla (and all of the Antitheater for that matter)
Hitchcock worked with Jimmy Stewart on “The Rope”, “Rear Window”, “The Man who Knew Too Much” and “Vertigo”. Spielberg worked with Harrison Ford in four Indiana Jones films, and Richard Dreyfuss in “Jaws”, “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “Always”.
I would like to add Anthony Michael Hall and John Hughes. For me personally, I think Molly Ringwald and the latter were a more noteworthy and trenchant pairing, but no less than Kubrick himself once commented that Hall and Hughes had a relationship as auspicious as Capra and Stewart. If only we could imagine what more of their movies would’ve been . . .
god, so many people who like films are SO obnoxiously pretentious.
as in: holding the pretense that — heaven forbid! — someone would make a list that doesn’t capture their very important favorites on it. sprinkled with some obscure favorites, to be sure….else the glorification of their own, presumptively superior tastes, not be held up as elite.
get over yourselves.
no list of 8 anything is exhaustive, but this list was perfectly fine. if you have a suggestion to make, make it and be done, without the sneering self-congratulations for wasting too much of your time sitting alone in the dark. or publish your own list. i’m looking at you, snobby marilena, and you, ‘just got started, cuz listing my film knowledge takes all day…’ nick e, and you, swooning-at-pomposity alison.
@carl: no swooning. and thank you for your passionate response.
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