Since the OP did an all 80's list, I'm going with an all 90's: The Addiction (1995) by Abel Ferrara with Lili Taylor The Wisdom of Crocodiles (1998) by Po-Chih Leong with Jude Law, Elina Loewensohn Nadja (1994) by Michael Almereyda with Elina Loewensohn Ultraviolet (UK 1998) TV...
The second episode on the DVDs (Train Job) is actually the replacement pilot the Fox execs demanded after seeing the real pilot (Serenity). Fox wanted more action and fun, so Whedon and Minear sat down on a weekend and wrote a new pilot.
With DVDProfiler alone, you have only the filter method already described. But IIRC, phpdvdprofiler and some external skins do have such a statistic function. I wrote a quick and dirty (really) XML transformation to get the stats. Feel free to download the XSLT file DirectorActorCount.xslt...
I have to say, I liked Murphy's minimalistic approach in S1. How he accentuates the fight in the Bronze at the end of 1x02 The Harvest is an early highlight.
I tend do be more excited about releases that are not so widely anticipated. Fortunately, two of them are due within the next few days: Firecracker (USA 2004) - R1-US 04-Jul-2006 Gespenster (D 2005, AKA Ghosts) - R2-DE 07-Jul-2006
Reminds me of a movie.;) BTW, I found the Cheever easier than the new one in its first incarnation. And no, I won't post the solution, because then I have to come up with an English quote myself.
Don't you love those newbies that dig around and resurrect old threads with stupid statistics? :) Director: Hal Hartley (10) Actress: Jodie Foster (10) Actor: Humphrey Bogart (8)
Sounds like John Cheever, but it has been ages since I read some of his stories and not being a native English speaker, I cheated to find the story it belongs to: Goodbye, My Brother