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Best Vanity Fair shots

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(from left) Darren Aronofsky and Mickey Rourke

(from left) Christopher Nolan and Heath Ledger

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22 responses to “Best Vanity Fair shots”

  1. Jim Avatar
    Jim

    They were all nice but it would have been great if they had the originality to put John Patrick Shanley with Viola Davis.

  2. michael mckay Avatar
    michael mckay

    Kris…sorry…off topic…do you i”efilmcritic” is going to do there Oscar pool contest again this year??

    Can’t seem to find anything about it…are you going to have a predict the oscars contest here on your site??

  3. J.S. Avatar
    J.S.

    I love the Cruz/Allen shot. Beautiful.

  4. Kristopher Tapley Avatar

    Michael: No idea. But I’m sure I’ll put up a post asking for everyone’s predictions.

  5. Emily Avatar
    Emily

    David Fincher is hot. His picture should be there.

    I like the picture with Gus Van Sant and Sean Penn.

  6. Victoria Avatar
    Victoria

    I like how Clint is all by himself. :)))) All you need in a movie-him doing everything.

  7. /3rtfu11 Avatar
    /3rtfu11

    Emily: Fincher looks older than he should these days.

    Alien 3 – must have taken years off his life.

  8. /3rtfu11 Avatar
    /3rtfu11

    Aronofsky is Charlie Chaplin.

  9. AmericanRequiem Avatar
    AmericanRequiem

    arronofsky is one of the greats

  10. JAB Avatar

    is the nolan/ledger picture a shopped picture?
    also, a clint/angelina picture might have been more relevant to the oscars than a clint picture…
    My favorite is the Boyle/Patel.

  11. Chad Avatar

    boo to the ledger/nolan photo being a composite.

  12. JP Avatar
    JP

    I thought the Kidman/Luhrman pic was fairly stunning. And the Boyle/Patel was interesting.

  13. Lane Avatar
    Lane

    Those are beautiful.

  14. THE Diego Ortiz Avatar
    THE Diego Ortiz

    sucks that the nolan/ledger pic is photoshop.

    i wonder if winslet is thinking about dicaprio in that pic?

  15. Chris Avatar
    Chris

    Never seen that one with Ledger before. I assume, like everyone else, that it’s photoshopped.

  16. /3rtfu11 Avatar
    /3rtfu11

    Ledger’s dead. The composite is a haunting illusion. A tastefully done tribute.

  17. Matthew Avatar
    Matthew

    I love the Nolan/Ledger composite. That distance between them gives the photo a very interesting composition. Also am a big fan of the Boyle/Patel shot.

  18. sophie Avatar

    i love the ledger/nolan shoot.
    it’s a beautiful tribute… the picture of him is from 2005.
    love it!!!!

  19. Michael Rogers Avatar
    Michael Rogers

    I know this sounds weird and a little creepy, but the Ledger/Nolan shot makes me feel like he is still here. I mean this is the sorta thing we would have seen if he were… makes me sad.

  20. Glenn Avatar

    “I like how Clint is all by himself. :)))) All you need in a movie-him doing everything.”

    Angelina was probably off kidnapping some more children for her brood of soulless do-gooders.

    j/k, j/k, j/k

    Love (most of) these photos.

  21. RichardA Avatar
    RichardA

    Well, Darren Aranofsky kinda looks like Christian Bale. Perhaps, the new Batman?

  22. Eunice Avatar

    @Jim: I agree. If they couldn’t go with that, I’d love to see Shanley with all of his Oscar-nominated actors. Actually, I’d love to see ensemble shots for Milk and The Dark Knight.

    I love the Boyle/Patel, Cruz/Allen, Nolan/Ledger (haunting and poignant–never mind that it was a composite), and Clint Eastwood shots (Clint’s surprised me by throwing in a ‘Bridges’ reference).

    I’d love to try to connect all the photographs together, in a ‘Six Degrees of Separation’ way, but that might take a while. I’ll get back to this site, Kris, once I have it figured out. :)