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I could not agree more. I assume anyone who posts in this forum is not only a movie fan, but a much bigger movie fan than the average person, b/c the average person does not post in movie message boards. So how on earth can the person who started this thread not even list the single greatest actor/director team of all-time. And probably the most influential one also.

I would also added John Woo/Chow Yun-Fat

The Killer
Hard-Boiled
A Better Tomorrow 1 & 2
Once A Thief

other:Lynch and Maclachlan (Blue Velvet,Dune,Twin Peaks)

Mifune / Kurosawa
Von Sydow / Bergman
Andersson Sisters / Bergman
Ullmann / Bergman
Karina / Godard
Grant / Hitchcock
Masina / Fellini
Mastroianni / Fellini


Madonna / Ritchie (just kidding)

I thought of two more while out tonight, and I was kicking myself for not including them:

Bob Rafelson/Jack Nicholson(one of the more unheardalded pairings)

Head
Five Easy Pieces
King of Marvin Gardens
The Postman Always Riogs Twice
Man Trouble
Blood and Wine

And another short lived pairing, but absolutely one of my favorites, George Roy Hill/Paul Newman

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Sting
Slap Shot
(talk about not having a clinker in the bunch, that's 3 absolute classics right here!)

And though I haven't seen any Bergman films, the Bergman/Max Von Sydow pairing is also quite reknown.

Couldn't decide...

Herzog/Kinski
Kurosawa/Mifune
Scorsese/DeNiro

Fincher/Pitt for me

You've got to be kidding me. You do know that the motion picture wasn't invented in the 1970's, don't you?

I think I'll go with John Ford/John Wayne, but there are literally dozens of better answers than any of the ones you proposed.

Woody Allen/Diane Keaton
Woody Allen/Mia Farrow
John Cassavetes/Gena Rowlands

John Woo/Chow Yun Fat

I'd probably go with Scorsese/DeNiro.

Another great team that probably did more to shape movies than anyone else would have to be <b>D.W. Griffith and Lillian Gish</b>.

Woo/Fat for me :)

Another vote for David Lynch / Kyle Maclachlan.

Christopher Guest and his entire cast(s)?

Quentin Tarantino and Samuel Jackson might be elligible if they make a few more films together.

Todd Haynes and Julianne Moore seem to have a good thing going.

P.T. Anderson / Philip Baker Hall

I think this question could be asked of those saying "DeNiro/Scorcese". While that duo has put together some good movies they don't touch these pairs, IMO:

Stewart/Hitchcock
Wilder/Lemmon

Like I said, while they have been a successful team, I think DeNiro/Scorsece are overrated.

Favorites of mine:
Dreyfuss/Spielberg
Stoltz/Crowe

the stugge brothers
Campbell/Raimi

Wayne & Ford get my vote.

Another vote for The Stugge Brothers.

Me too.

followed by

Gen. Steward/Hitchcock

Kinski/Herzog

Billy Wilder and Jack Lemmon, of course.

John Carpenter And Kurt Russell

Luc Besson & Gary Oldman/Jean Reno!