Eric Lavallée

Today’s Top Ten looks at the best director/actor pairings of the year. More specifically, we are looking at directors and actors who have continued to foster their relationship over the years in the cinematic field - providing us viewers with examples of magical collaborations on screen. I could cite at least 250 other significant relationships of the sort from the past 9 decades of film history, everyone from Dietrich and von Sternberg, Fellini and wife Giulietta Masina, Hitchcock and his slew of muses aka leading ladies, Bergman and Ullmann, Antonioni and Monica Vitti and to Scorsese and DeNiro or Scorsese and DiCaprio. Note sequels and trilogies were not taken into consideration. Enjoy the list!

Yesterday we saw a Daniel Clowes' illustration, a pair of tattooed hands, a horses' head, some crafty font arrangement and a bible. Today's picks are more of a "face friendly" bunch. Among those that were cut from our top ten list and are worthy of a mention were Jim Carrey's scribbled face image for Number 23, Kevin Costner's splitting image in Mr.Brooks, the telling a story in one image rendering for Breach, the haunting poster for No Country for Old Men and Lionsgate's series of teaser and theatrical posters for Hostel II.

"...can do no wrong with this heartfelt, biographical story that contains an experience with so much universal and cultural commonality that not one viewer watching this film will be left indifferent."

Paint it Black: Satrapi demonstrates sharp prowess in filmic translation of autobiography.

It's that time of year here (we wish our faithful readers happy holidays) at IONCINEMA.com where we put up various Top 10 & Top 20 lists commemorating and celebrating the past 12 months/52 weeks of movie-watching, movie-reviewing and movie-reporting. To start things off: we have our Top 10 list for our favorite poster one sheets (click here and here for 2006’s Top Ten).