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Frederico Fellini and Giulietta Massina, and Marcello Mastroianni.
With Truffault/Leaud and Fellini/Mastroianni there is a deliberate actor as alter ego thing going on.
Ingmar Bergman had a repetory of actors that he employed again and again especially Liv Ullman, Gunnar Bjornstand, Max Von Sydow and Bibi Andersson.
Cassevettes had a regular cast of actors. Hal Hartley often employs the same people.
Kevin Smith has some old faithfuls.
Derek Jarman and Tilda Swinton have worked together a lot.
Quick, someone go see The Island and tell me if it's worth going to. Of course, who am I kidding? I'll see it just for Scarlett Johansson.
Should I see March of the Penguins or Happy Endings today?
Should I see March of the Penguins or Happy Endings today?
If only they'd combined the two... a movie about a penguin masseuse.
ION: The similaritites between The Island and the 1970s movie Parts: The Clonus Horror (which was shown on MST:3K): [link]
They have the exact same plot.
The Internet Movie Database is considered the definitive source for information about films. On the IMDb's page for The Island, if you click "Movie Connections", it even says "Remake of 'Clonus' (1979)", and if you click on "Movie Connections" for Clonus, it says "Remade as 'The Island' (2005)".
Yet, amazingly, the original makers of Clonus (director Robert S. Fiveson, producer Myrl A. Schreibman, and screenwriters Bob Sullivan and Ron Smith) have been completely shut out, receiving no credit, no compensation, no anything. And that includes never being asked if it could be remade.
Do you need permission to remake a movie? If you remake a movie, do you need to credit the creators of the original?
I think you mean Frank Capra, Hec.
D'oh. But yeah, Cassavetes and Seymour Cassell.
Holy crap, the plot is the same as Parts: the Clonus Horror. I hadn't even thought of that film. MST3K did that one up right proper. Even now I can't see Peter Graves in anything without inserting as many, "...on 'Biography'!"s as possible.
Divine and John Waters.
Have you noticed that there's a council of goths running Warner Brothers?
That's because we're everywhere, duh.
John Woo and Chow Yun Fat
Wong Kar Wai and Tony Leung Chiu Wai