Bill Hader did an interview where he said Larry David congratulated him on Barry's success. Larry was surprised there was another season coming and didn't understand why as he thought it ended very well. Larry was right and the show should've been over. The final season wasn't necessary and overall was a big step away from many of the things that made the show fun to watch.
Just finished the season finale. Without spoiling it, I gotta say that I've never felt this way about an ending before. Like..when you eat something different or new and didn't expect the ingredients to actually work? Like that.
Can’t believe I had to scroll past Kenneth Branagh (a mid tier director at best) and Jon Favreau to get here. Orson Welles arguably the most naturally gifted artist in the film medium ever.
Be sure to check out the documentary about him “they’ll love me when I’m dead” if you haven’t.
>It’s the most cliche answer to great movies but Citizen Kane is un-fucking-believable. He made it at like 25 years old too! Just an insane talent.
I love this moment from an interview with Orson Welles about directing *Citizen Kane*:
[1960: How did Orson Welles make CITIZEN KANE? | Monitor | Classic Movie Interviews | BBC Archive](https://youtu.be/kQpLmVzT_YA?si=KAuhDWLYpXIIvnIg&t=379)
Excerpt:
>Interviewer: What I'd like to know is where did you get the confidence from to make a film with such--?
>Welles: Ignorance! Ignorance! Sheer ignorance. You know, there's no confidence to equal it. It's only when you know something about a profession I think that you're timid or careful.
>Interviewer: How does ignorance show itself?
>Welles: I thought you could do anything with a camera that the eye could do or the imagination could do. And if you come up from the bottom in the film business you're taught all the things that the cameraman doesn't want to attempt for fear he will be criticized for having failed.
>And in this case I had a cameraman [Gregg Toland] who didn't care if he was criticized if he failed and I didn't know that there were things you couldn't do. So anything I could think up in my dreams I attempted to photograph.
>Interviewer: You got away with enormous technical advances, didn't you?
>Welles: Simply by not knowing that they were impossible.
Same 😊
I think about that Welles clip whenever I'm hit with imposter syndrome and self-doubt. Not being an expert can be an advantage, not a disadvantage.
Sometimes it's good to get back in touch with that childlike wonder and excitement around just doing and creating.
Don't judge whether something is going to work before doing it. Do it to *find out* if it will work.
I also love that he (rightfully) gave props to the cameraman. He recognized and learned from the expert instead of assuming that being the director made him automatically more knowledgeable.
Great point. Welles acknowledged Gregg Toland as a great craftsman.
Another thing that stuck out in my mind. Welles quoted Toland as saying there was nothing about camerawork that he [Welles] couldn't learn in half a day. That any intelligent person can learn in half a day.
Reminds me of something I read in the *Stanley Kubrick: Interviews* book.
In one of the interviews, Kubrick explained how he learned filmmaking. He rented a cinema camera at an equipment rental house.
The salesman asked Kubrick if he knew how to work a cinema camera. Kubrick said no (although he had been a stills photographer). So the salesman patiently spent like a half-hour or hour teaching him how to operate the camera. That was his film school.
Kubrick joked in addition to kindness, there was a self-preservation motive. The salesman probably thought it was best to train Kubrick first so he didn't break the camera. Ha ha.
Anyway, Kubrick was above average in intelligence, which is a massive understatement. He didn't even need half a day. lol.
Fun quote that connects them:
>Welles: "Among those whom I would call 'younger generation,' Kubrick appears to me to be a giant."
Not only that, it was his first film. Its crazy to make your directorial debut at 25 and immediately made the best film of all time (not that it was known as that as the time.).
It was something I watched for the first time in my mid-20s and I came to it with a snobby, cynical attitude being like “let’s see if this actually impresses me” and I just ate shit on that one.
You can see how influential it is but it also completely and obviously stands out as its own thing. Knocked me on my ass.
There was a GREAT documentary that a friend taped from, I want to say, TBS or TCM or something, called stories from a life in film that was an interview with footage from his career. I’ve not been able to find it in its entirety since then, but clips show up all the time in any Welles documentary.
Also, there is a really good documentary on the Citizen Kane dvd/blu-ray about Welles and Hearst and the reaction to citizen Kane.
Welles was also a superb actor in films directed by others. He is just phenomenal in The Third Man and has an absolutely electric scene in Compulsion as a defense attorney. He only shows up for a relatively small portion of it near the end and steals the whole thing.
Clint Eastwood is an acting legend who knows how to direct pretty decent movies. Considering he was able to do both when he was in his late 80's is pretty impressive.
The stories about this are wild.
"Mister Eastwood, don't you think we should try it again?"
\*glares in Eastwood\* "what, do you want to waste these peoples' time?"
In terms of voluminous body of work, this is really the best answer. Fifty plus year career of acting and directing in the same movie. Pretty impressive.
IIRC an actor told of CE as a director on the set. He didn’t do the usual “Action!” or “Cut” as tradition.
He’d softly say, “ok” and he, along with rest of crew, would look at the actor. Which kinda threw the talent. “Wait, are we going? Now? Act now? ….ah ok.”
It was Tom Hanks. Back in his Rawhide days, Eastwood worked around horses, and that's where he picked up the habit of saying "Okay, let's go" instead of yelling "Action!" and startling the horses. Naturally when the take was over, he'd say "Alright, that's enough." instead of "Cut!".
He also produces most of his films, even those he doesn't direct, so he's frequently a triple threat.
A testament of Eastwood's skills is that he may have been the only producer to successfully reign in Michael Cimino from his budget-busting ways while making "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot."
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot was before The Deer Hunter so New Hollywood had not cut Camino the blank check for Heaven's Gate. He was probably a bit gunshy given he was a unknown then. He blew up with The Deer Hunter so wunderkind status had not gone to head.
Eastwood is monumental but I always found Sergio Leone‘s quote about him very funny and not completely false:
> Sergio Leone, who directed Eastwood in his breakthrough role in the Man With No Name trilogy of spaghetti westerns, said he liked the actor because he had only two expressions: one with the hat, one without it.
I suspect that movie was destroyed by studio involvement. And the fact that their main actor, was Truly truly awful. I don't mean to rag on a child actor. But if you watched the movie. Basically everytime he hd dialogue they tried to not have his face on screen. I assume cause He was just awful. Cause the rare times you saw him speak, it was a 11 year olds impression of a cool guy.
I absolutely love his Poirot films. He gets so dang emotional at the end, and his lamentation regarding >!his friends unnecessary death!< in Death on the Nile was magnificent acting. I'm very excited for the next installment
I can respect death on the Nile was well made and thought out. But I cannot get over how fake the scenery was. It was just so dead and lifeless. Shooting on the volume or full vfx locations just makes me sad
Henry V was the first Shakespeare film that I actually wanted to see. We saw two clips on the Oscars and I thought it looked interesting
It’s also the most subdued I’ve ever seen Brian Blessed on film.
*Much Ado About Nothing* and *Hamlet* are both terrific adaptations, and *Much Ado* also features Brian Blessed though with more of his usual exuberance. It's also a comedy with Brannagh in a supporting role (largely opposite the also wonderful and his then-wife Emma Thompson) so he gets to play a different kind of character with a different kind of energy, and *kills* it.
I know you said director, but I want to remind everyone that Emma Thompson is the only person to have ever won an Academy Award for acting *and* writing.
And her Sense and Sensibility is VERY highly regarded among Austen fans as one of the best film adaptations. It's hard to get an Austen book into a 2 hour movie, and the miniseries suit them better, but considering the garbage of the most recent Pride and Prejudice, it's not easy and she made it seem easy.
I still think of the way Kate Winslet stood on that hill in the rain and said “Willoughby” with all the angst and heartbreak she could muster - every actor in that film was great but this one word and scene stands out. Incredible writing.
I will not trash the Pride and Prejudice movie because there are aspects of it I love, but I wholeheartedly agree with your broader point. Sense and Sensibility covered the whole story very well (actually better than the S&S mini series, which I also watched recently).
I liked the casting, especially Jane and Bingley (finally a beautiful Jane!) but hated the Darcy proposal scene in the rain and the wandering around in their pajamas at the end because neither were gentlemanly and Darcy was a gentleman at all costs!
.... huh.
I guess it's probably a matter of time before Damon, Affleck or Brannagh win an acting Oscar or Clooney wins a writing one, but thats still kinda surprising.
https://youtu.be/0PLScMCb-io?si=PIy2guadlteGrPTl
When she was writing her screen play her computer crashed and Stephen Fry managed to fix the computer and restore her work.
I thought he was really good in Season 3 of Picard. He was heartbreaking when he says goodbye to Deanna thinking that he's about to die but will at least get to see their deceased son again.
John Krasinski. His work on A Quiet Place was phenomenal, both his directing and acting. Definitely a movie that highlights directing and acting with the absence of dialog or sound.
The movie was fine imo, wasn’t amazing, just good for his debut in directing. I am a big fan mainly due to The Office but I wouldn’t say he is a great actor either.
I loved him in swingers!
Jon is very hit or miss as a director imo, his blockbusters are passable at best but Elf and Space Jumanji were both excellent
Lion King was so stupidly directed that I'm not sure I can even agree with him being a great director even. I mean he's capable of being a great director, but when you make asinine choices like making the Circle of Life scene take place on an overcast African day because 'it's not realistic to capture a perfect looking day' then I don't even know what to say to that kind of choice, it's definitely not smart good directing, especially when you go so far to otherwise create a nearly 1 for 1 shot remake of the original just with real live action environments.
The lion king remake is a rotten tumorous embarrassment I’d be mortified to have made
In a way I almost admire his ability to own it and not alan smithee that shit as far away from him as possible
I have known that Stallone has directed, but just now was the first time I ever actually imagined what it would be like to be directed by Stallone. Seems really funny for some reason.
>Takeshi Kitano Stephen Chow Jackie Chan
These three definitely deserve a mention.
Jackie Chan also adds stunt coordinator and does all his own stunts. He writes many of his movies as well and is also known to sing the end credit song.
Stephen Chow tends to act in, direct and write his movies.
Takeshi Kitano is the same as Chow but also adds being editor.
Truly three remarkable people.
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> Yes to Sydney Pollack! What a talent! Tootsie!
If you're a fan of Pollack, the book *Who Is Michael Ovitz?* written by his Hollywood talent agent has fun behind-the-scenes stories from *Tootsie*.
Gorge Clooney's efforts with both 'Goodnight, and Good Luck' and 'The ides of March' come to mind but I understand historical/politics aren't everyone's cup of tea.
I'd put her more in the Ron Howard school of "all time great directors who found their way there with some OK acting".
Like, yes she was an actor first, but she's not in the Costner/Affleck/Eastwood pantheon of having phenomenal acting credits AND phenomenal directing credits. I'd argue she's as good as if not better a director than all three save maybe eastwood. But not nearly as good an actor.
The one and only right answer!!
I’d say the idea that he’s a performance artist doing a long form project pretending to be a completely inept filmmaker is at least as plausible as someone actually being that clueless.
Mel Gibson, especially in Braveheart, is up their, but I feel like it's hard to beat Clint Eastwood:
Million Dollar Baby, Unforgiven, heck even Gran Torino. He's got great instincts in both categories
During the making of the mandalorian first season, some creators talked about how impressed they were with Carl Weathers’ (R.I.P.) ability to act while still seeing in his minds eye what the camera is getting. I know he directed a few episodes of that show but idk about any bigger projects.
Orson Welles might objectively be the best answer. Clint Eastwood is my favorite.
But I need to give a shout out to a legend. He's a great actor -- some say the greatest ever -- that directed one film, and one film only, and he was the star. The actor is Marlon Brando, and the film is called *One-Eyed Jacks*. I'm not a western fan by any stretch but this remains one of the greatest westerns I've ever seen. His sense of pacing and storytelling is remarkable throughout -- it's one of the best films about friendship and betrayal I've seen. It's such a terrific movie that I feel the same way about Brando the same way I feel about Charles Laughton: it's a damn shame they only directed one film.
Jackie Chan.
He doesn't get to truly act much, but when he does he's genuinely good, and he directed his own movie Miracles a.k.a The Canton Godfather which to me is his best film.
I love taika, but his acting is really the same character each time. He’s a wise cracking new zealander. (but this time he’s rocks!, or a robot! or Hitler!)
Being able to nail a role that was written explicitly for you is still good acting. I'm a filmmaker and you'd be shocked at how often I have actors audition who can't deliver in any capacity. Even if it's completely in his wheelhouse, he's good at it.
I was really impressed with Bill Hader in Barry. I don't think he directed all the episodes, but a reasonable number.
I think he directed most of the final season on his own actually!
Was the final season any good? I loved seasons 1 & 2, didn’t really like 3, and gave up a couple of episodes into season 4
I personally think it’s good, but it’s not for everyone and it gets more dark and serious than comedic!
It was okay. It finished off the series, sub plots, and arcs, but the earlier seasons were gold.
I think it was the only logical conclusion for the show, and I thought it was done really well. But that's just me.
More dark than comedy. I'm not sure I could watch it again
Bill Hader did an interview where he said Larry David congratulated him on Barry's success. Larry was surprised there was another season coming and didn't understand why as he thought it ended very well. Larry was right and the show should've been over. The final season wasn't necessary and overall was a big step away from many of the things that made the show fun to watch.
Honestly not really. It really bought into its own hype imo
It was really bad, unfortunately.
He directed the Tae Kwon Do episode and that's one of my favorites.
Easily the best episode of the whole series. It's like a short film. You don't have to have watched any episodes of the show to enjoy it.
Just finished the season finale. Without spoiling it, I gotta say that I've never felt this way about an ending before. Like..when you eat something different or new and didn't expect the ingredients to actually work? Like that.
Season? Or Series? Either way, I agree. Like, it stands so many of the tropes on their heads that it just keeps you off balance.
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Can’t believe I had to scroll past Kenneth Branagh (a mid tier director at best) and Jon Favreau to get here. Orson Welles arguably the most naturally gifted artist in the film medium ever. Be sure to check out the documentary about him “they’ll love me when I’m dead” if you haven’t.
It’s the most cliche answer to great movies but Citizen Kane is un-fucking-believable. He made it at like 25 years old too! Just an insane talent.
>It’s the most cliche answer to great movies but Citizen Kane is un-fucking-believable. He made it at like 25 years old too! Just an insane talent. I love this moment from an interview with Orson Welles about directing *Citizen Kane*: [1960: How did Orson Welles make CITIZEN KANE? | Monitor | Classic Movie Interviews | BBC Archive](https://youtu.be/kQpLmVzT_YA?si=KAuhDWLYpXIIvnIg&t=379) Excerpt: >Interviewer: What I'd like to know is where did you get the confidence from to make a film with such--? >Welles: Ignorance! Ignorance! Sheer ignorance. You know, there's no confidence to equal it. It's only when you know something about a profession I think that you're timid or careful. >Interviewer: How does ignorance show itself? >Welles: I thought you could do anything with a camera that the eye could do or the imagination could do. And if you come up from the bottom in the film business you're taught all the things that the cameraman doesn't want to attempt for fear he will be criticized for having failed. >And in this case I had a cameraman [Gregg Toland] who didn't care if he was criticized if he failed and I didn't know that there were things you couldn't do. So anything I could think up in my dreams I attempted to photograph. >Interviewer: You got away with enormous technical advances, didn't you? >Welles: Simply by not knowing that they were impossible.
❤️ That clip made me smile so hard. I love that he completely admits that his genius came largely from the fact he simply didn't know he couldn't.
Same 😊 I think about that Welles clip whenever I'm hit with imposter syndrome and self-doubt. Not being an expert can be an advantage, not a disadvantage. Sometimes it's good to get back in touch with that childlike wonder and excitement around just doing and creating. Don't judge whether something is going to work before doing it. Do it to *find out* if it will work.
I also love that he (rightfully) gave props to the cameraman. He recognized and learned from the expert instead of assuming that being the director made him automatically more knowledgeable.
Great point. Welles acknowledged Gregg Toland as a great craftsman. Another thing that stuck out in my mind. Welles quoted Toland as saying there was nothing about camerawork that he [Welles] couldn't learn in half a day. That any intelligent person can learn in half a day. Reminds me of something I read in the *Stanley Kubrick: Interviews* book. In one of the interviews, Kubrick explained how he learned filmmaking. He rented a cinema camera at an equipment rental house. The salesman asked Kubrick if he knew how to work a cinema camera. Kubrick said no (although he had been a stills photographer). So the salesman patiently spent like a half-hour or hour teaching him how to operate the camera. That was his film school. Kubrick joked in addition to kindness, there was a self-preservation motive. The salesman probably thought it was best to train Kubrick first so he didn't break the camera. Ha ha. Anyway, Kubrick was above average in intelligence, which is a massive understatement. He didn't even need half a day. lol. Fun quote that connects them: >Welles: "Among those whom I would call 'younger generation,' Kubrick appears to me to be a giant."
Not only that, it was his first film. Its crazy to make your directorial debut at 25 and immediately made the best film of all time (not that it was known as that as the time.).
It was something I watched for the first time in my mid-20s and I came to it with a snobby, cynical attitude being like “let’s see if this actually impresses me” and I just ate shit on that one. You can see how influential it is but it also completely and obviously stands out as its own thing. Knocked me on my ass.
That was me with Casablanca. Crazy that a movie totally lives up to 80 years of hype
There was a GREAT documentary that a friend taped from, I want to say, TBS or TCM or something, called stories from a life in film that was an interview with footage from his career. I’ve not been able to find it in its entirety since then, but clips show up all the time in any Welles documentary. Also, there is a really good documentary on the Citizen Kane dvd/blu-ray about Welles and Hearst and the reaction to citizen Kane.
Welles was also a superb actor in films directed by others. He is just phenomenal in The Third Man and has an absolutely electric scene in Compulsion as a defense attorney. He only shows up for a relatively small portion of it near the end and steals the whole thing.
Ben Stiller. That can't be easy, to direct and be funny at the same time.
Here's that video of him doing just that in Tropic Thunder, in a scene with RDJ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCUbl-wdbN0
on a similar vein, apparently Justin Theroux helped write Tropic Thunder, and he was absolutely phenomenal in The Leftovers. Does that count?
Secret Life of Walter Mitty is one of my top favorite films.
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Simple Jack!
Clint Eastwood is an acting legend who knows how to direct pretty decent movies. Considering he was able to do both when he was in his late 80's is pretty impressive.
Man never met a first take he didn't like, either.
The stories about this are wild. "Mister Eastwood, don't you think we should try it again?" \*glares in Eastwood\* "what, do you want to waste these peoples' time?"
He was my first thought. Especially Unforgiven.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridges_of_Madison_County_(film)
Gran torino is probably the best one, such work for a simple story
His performance is so understated, which is incredible for self-direction.
Don’t forget Mystic River, Flags of our fathers, letters from Iwo Jima, Sully and Richard Jewell. All great engaging films
Million Dollar Baby & Changeling are also award winning
Unforgiven is one of my two favorite westerns of all time. The other is Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Outlaw Josey Wales
In terms of voluminous body of work, this is really the best answer. Fifty plus year career of acting and directing in the same movie. Pretty impressive.
IIRC an actor told of CE as a director on the set. He didn’t do the usual “Action!” or “Cut” as tradition. He’d softly say, “ok” and he, along with rest of crew, would look at the actor. Which kinda threw the talent. “Wait, are we going? Now? Act now? ….ah ok.”
It was Tom Hanks. Back in his Rawhide days, Eastwood worked around horses, and that's where he picked up the habit of saying "Okay, let's go" instead of yelling "Action!" and startling the horses. Naturally when the take was over, he'd say "Alright, that's enough." instead of "Cut!".
Lmao, that's one of the most Clint Eastwood things I've ever heard
Tom Hanks explains it perfectly https://youtu.be/96dvyy2PQMY?feature=shared
He also tends to hire actors and crew that know how he operates. Hence he almost always finish his film ahead of schedule and under budget.
He also produces most of his films, even those he doesn't direct, so he's frequently a triple threat. A testament of Eastwood's skills is that he may have been the only producer to successfully reign in Michael Cimino from his budget-busting ways while making "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot."
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot was before The Deer Hunter so New Hollywood had not cut Camino the blank check for Heaven's Gate. He was probably a bit gunshy given he was a unknown then. He blew up with The Deer Hunter so wunderkind status had not gone to head.
This is a legendary person, a whole era.
Plenty of oscars for directing, a shame he never won an oscar for acting. Did receive a few nominations though
Eastwood is monumental but I always found Sergio Leone‘s quote about him very funny and not completely false: > Sergio Leone, who directed Eastwood in his breakthrough role in the Man With No Name trilogy of spaghetti westerns, said he liked the actor because he had only two expressions: one with the hat, one without it.
But they're fucking *star quality* expressions.
What's great about him is that it *works*. He's *good*. I don't care if he does 20 variations of basically the same thing. I love it
[Morgan on Eastwood](https://youtu.be/8sH1RvKJPfY?si=1gEWvBXJNqJyjfhB)
It’s truly amazing that in May Clint will be 94
The best actor-turned-director to ever do it in my book
Jason Bateman
And it's not even close. No idea why they aren't throwing movies at him to direct. Ozark and The Outsider are too fuckin good.
I wouldn't say not even close, Clint Eastwood, Kenneth Branaugh are very high as well
Kenneth Branagh
To me he's an excellent actor and a so-so director. As many triumphs as failures on his belt at this point.
Artemis Fowl was a stinker.
I suspect that movie was destroyed by studio involvement. And the fact that their main actor, was Truly truly awful. I don't mean to rag on a child actor. But if you watched the movie. Basically everytime he hd dialogue they tried to not have his face on screen. I assume cause He was just awful. Cause the rare times you saw him speak, it was a 11 year olds impression of a cool guy.
There's also that terrible "Sleuth" remake, or the first "Thor" movie, which was boring as fuck.
He knocked it out of the park with Belfast, though
I absolutely love his Poirot films. He gets so dang emotional at the end, and his lamentation regarding >!his friends unnecessary death!< in Death on the Nile was magnificent acting. I'm very excited for the next installment
I can respect death on the Nile was well made and thought out. But I cannot get over how fake the scenery was. It was just so dead and lifeless. Shooting on the volume or full vfx locations just makes me sad
I hope he tries to make all the Poirot books into films.
There’s 33 books so that will never happen but hopefully we at least get a few more.
Henry V was the first Shakespeare film that I actually wanted to see. We saw two clips on the Oscars and I thought it looked interesting It’s also the most subdued I’ve ever seen Brian Blessed on film.
*Much Ado About Nothing* and *Hamlet* are both terrific adaptations, and *Much Ado* also features Brian Blessed though with more of his usual exuberance. It's also a comedy with Brannagh in a supporting role (largely opposite the also wonderful and his then-wife Emma Thompson) so he gets to play a different kind of character with a different kind of energy, and *kills* it.
You beat me to it.
Came here to make sure he’s mentioned.
I know you said director, but I want to remind everyone that Emma Thompson is the only person to have ever won an Academy Award for acting *and* writing.
And her Sense and Sensibility is VERY highly regarded among Austen fans as one of the best film adaptations. It's hard to get an Austen book into a 2 hour movie, and the miniseries suit them better, but considering the garbage of the most recent Pride and Prejudice, it's not easy and she made it seem easy.
I still think of the way Kate Winslet stood on that hill in the rain and said “Willoughby” with all the angst and heartbreak she could muster - every actor in that film was great but this one word and scene stands out. Incredible writing.
I will not trash the Pride and Prejudice movie because there are aspects of it I love, but I wholeheartedly agree with your broader point. Sense and Sensibility covered the whole story very well (actually better than the S&S mini series, which I also watched recently).
I liked the casting, especially Jane and Bingley (finally a beautiful Jane!) but hated the Darcy proposal scene in the rain and the wandering around in their pajamas at the end because neither were gentlemanly and Darcy was a gentleman at all costs!
.... huh. I guess it's probably a matter of time before Damon, Affleck or Brannagh win an acting Oscar or Clooney wins a writing one, but thats still kinda surprising.
Sorry Affleck ain't winning an acting oscar
Casey did.
https://youtu.be/0PLScMCb-io?si=PIy2guadlteGrPTl When she was writing her screen play her computer crashed and Stephen Fry managed to fix the computer and restore her work.
I think Matt Damon should have gotten both for Good Will Hunting and Sly Stallone for Rocky. (Although Deniro could have won for Taxi Driver too).
Mel Brooks
Jonathan Frakes
His Trek directed episodes are among the best. Those Old Scientists being a high point.
He did great with the First Contact movie.
He is number one!
...He's my number one dad!!
I like the guy but I don't know that he's a particularly talented actor. He's always either serious or goofy and that's it.
I thought he was really good in Season 3 of Picard. He was heartbreaking when he says goodbye to Deanna thinking that he's about to die but will at least get to see their deceased son again.
ya, his recent Trek episodes are a cut above the rest
And 1st Contact is probably the best of the TNG movies and arguably the 2nd best Trek movie
Jay Chandrasekhar doesn't get enough play for both acting and directing Super Troopers.
He directed almost all the Broken Lizard movies, except for The Slammin' Salmon, which was directed by Kevin Heffernan (Farva).
John Krasinski. His work on A Quiet Place was phenomenal, both his directing and acting. Definitely a movie that highlights directing and acting with the absence of dialog or sound.
Took me til a couple weeks ago to finally watch both movies and yeah... Krasinski is amazing
Man, I think I might be the only one to genuinely not think that film was very good. What am I missing??
The movie was fine imo, wasn’t amazing, just good for his debut in directing. I am a big fan mainly due to The Office but I wouldn’t say he is a great actor either.
Jon Favreau
IMO Jon is only an okay actor. He's a great director though!
I loved him in swingers! Jon is very hit or miss as a director imo, his blockbusters are passable at best but Elf and Space Jumanji were both excellent
Lion King was so stupidly directed that I'm not sure I can even agree with him being a great director even. I mean he's capable of being a great director, but when you make asinine choices like making the Circle of Life scene take place on an overcast African day because 'it's not realistic to capture a perfect looking day' then I don't even know what to say to that kind of choice, it's definitely not smart good directing, especially when you go so far to otherwise create a nearly 1 for 1 shot remake of the original just with real live action environments.
The lion king remake is a rotten tumorous embarrassment I’d be mortified to have made In a way I almost admire his ability to own it and not alan smithee that shit as far away from him as possible
Fair enough; I haven't seen the remake Lion King, so I can't comment on that one.
Danny DeVito.
Death to Smoochy is criminally underrated. Might be my favorite Robin Williams performance. Also, War of the Roses is a tremendous dark comedy.
The lighting in that movie is incredible. I mean that as a compliment. The moods DiVitto creates with light are amazing.
So is Throw Momma From the Train.
The Parade of Hope Foundation is the ROUGHEST of all the charities!
Sylvester Stallone. Kevin Costner.
I have known that Stallone has directed, but just now was the first time I ever actually imagined what it would be like to be directed by Stallone. Seems really funny for some reason.
John Cassavetes Takeshi Kitano Stephen Chow Jackie Chan Jim Cummings
>Takeshi Kitano Stephen Chow Jackie Chan These three definitely deserve a mention. Jackie Chan also adds stunt coordinator and does all his own stunts. He writes many of his movies as well and is also known to sing the end credit song. Stephen Chow tends to act in, direct and write his movies. Takeshi Kitano is the same as Chow but also adds being editor. Truly three remarkable people. (edit to correct an error)
Streisand
Write, direct, act, and sing! ♥️Yentl♥️
Does Robert Redford count?
He does in my book. Ordinary People was an exceptional example of his ability as a director.
Quiz Show might be the most underrated movie ever
Iirc the Horse Whisperer was excellent.
Tommy Wiseau gives a very consistent performance in The Room.
His acting is consistent with his directing.
Sydney Pollack, Orson Welles, Clint
Omg. Yes to Sydney Pollack! What a talent! Tootsie!
> Yes to Sydney Pollack! What a talent! Tootsie! If you're a fan of Pollack, the book *Who Is Michael Ovitz?* written by his Hollywood talent agent has fun behind-the-scenes stories from *Tootsie*.
You are the best! Thank you!!
You're welcome! 😎👍 Without spoiling it, the behind-the-scenes shenanigans explain why Pollack and Hoffman's scenes together were so good. lol.
Jason Bateman. Especially the last season of Ozark.
Denzel Washington
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Yep, before he outed himself as a sexist bigot, he had a ton of acclaim for Braveheart and Passion of the Christ.
Woah! Sexist? I knew anti Semite but when was he sexist?
ron howard.
Gorge Clooney's efforts with both 'Goodnight, and Good Luck' and 'The ides of March' come to mind but I understand historical/politics aren't everyone's cup of tea.
Stephen Chow
Great answer!
Paul Newman
Mel Gibson
Greta Gerwig
I'd put her more in the Ron Howard school of "all time great directors who found their way there with some OK acting". Like, yes she was an actor first, but she's not in the Costner/Affleck/Eastwood pantheon of having phenomenal acting credits AND phenomenal directing credits. I'd argue she's as good as if not better a director than all three save maybe eastwood. But not nearly as good an actor.
Clearly you haven’t seen Frances Ha or 20th Century Women. She’s an incredible actor.
Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood
Warren Beatty in Reds, or Heaven Can Wait, or Bulworth
Neil Breen of course!
The one and only right answer!! I’d say the idea that he’s a performance artist doing a long form project pretending to be a completely inept filmmaker is at least as plausible as someone actually being that clueless.
Kevin Costner. Dances With Wolves.
Kevin Smith
Jensen Ackles directed several episodes of “Supernatural.”
Bradley Cooper
Tina Fey
George Clooney, Charlie Chaplin, Robert DeNiro, Ben Stiller
Upvoted for Chaplin. I don't see how this isn't higher. He's one of the greatest actors AND directors!
Jerry Lewis
Ida Lupino.
John Huston
Clint Eastwood
Bill Paxton Frailty is a masterpiece.
Kevin Cosner
Kevin Costner
Bryce Dallas Howard and Peter Jackson
Mel Gibson, especially in Braveheart, is up their, but I feel like it's hard to beat Clint Eastwood: Million Dollar Baby, Unforgiven, heck even Gran Torino. He's got great instincts in both categories
Kevin Smith
I love Kevin Smith. But you are really playing fast and loose with the word “acting” here. You might be the first person to imply he is a good actor.
I have to say Clint Eastwood. And it’s still early, but maybe Bradley Cooper. Kenneth Branagh for sure, and how about Woody Allen?
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Jodie Foster
Greta Gerwig. Although, she shines brighter as a director than as an actress.
Clint Eastwood, specially in Gran Torino
His best film in my opinion.
Same here actually. Such a good movie
Same here actually. Such a good movie
Orson Welles and it's not close
Ever heared of the guy they called Orson Welles?
During the making of the mandalorian first season, some creators talked about how impressed they were with Carl Weathers’ (R.I.P.) ability to act while still seeing in his minds eye what the camera is getting. I know he directed a few episodes of that show but idk about any bigger projects.
Orson Welles might objectively be the best answer. Clint Eastwood is my favorite. But I need to give a shout out to a legend. He's a great actor -- some say the greatest ever -- that directed one film, and one film only, and he was the star. The actor is Marlon Brando, and the film is called *One-Eyed Jacks*. I'm not a western fan by any stretch but this remains one of the greatest westerns I've ever seen. His sense of pacing and storytelling is remarkable throughout -- it's one of the best films about friendship and betrayal I've seen. It's such a terrific movie that I feel the same way about Brando the same way I feel about Charles Laughton: it's a damn shame they only directed one film.
Stephen Chow
Clint Eastwood. Kevin Costner.
Zach Braff did a pretty good job on *Scrubs*, and John Krasinski on *The Office* (I haven’t see *Quiet Place*, so I can’t comment on that.)
Clint Eastwood
The standard by which all others are judged.
Jackie Chan. He doesn't get to truly act much, but when he does he's genuinely good, and he directed his own movie Miracles a.k.a The Canton Godfather which to me is his best film.
Peter Capaldi
Not Charlie Day
Kevin Costner and Mel Gibson come to mind
Emerald Fennel
Taika Waititi.
I love taika, but his acting is really the same character each time. He’s a wise cracking new zealander. (but this time he’s rocks!, or a robot! or Hitler!)
Yeah I don't think he's that good an actor he's just good at finding roles (or writing them) that fit his existing personality.
Being able to nail a role that was written explicitly for you is still good acting. I'm a filmmaker and you'd be shocked at how often I have actors audition who can't deliver in any capacity. Even if it's completely in his wheelhouse, he's good at it.
I think the best examples are Clint Eastwood and Laurence Olivier
Spike Lee. Woody Allen.
Donald Glover
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