Vanity Fair has posted its new Hollywood Portfolio, which features actor/director duos who have worked intriguing artistic liasons. Personally, I’m growing weary of “the epic romance of Pedro Almodóvar and Penélope Cruz,” but there are some great photos that include Quentin Tarantino with Christoph Waltz as “The Hellions”:

From the raw material of an Italian-made late-70s Dirty Dozen knockoff called Quel Maledetto Treno Blindato (released as The Inglorious Bastards in the U.S.), Tarantino has whipped up his latest barmy bijou mashup: part World War II epic, part goofy Mike Myers comedy (literally — he’s in the movie), part grind-house gore-fest, part Eastwoodian revenge fantasy. The linchpin of this whole exercise — and the counterpoint to the film’s putative star, Brad Pitt — is the Vienna-born Waltz. As Colonel Hans Landa, he runs the gamut of cinematic Nazi-ness, from the cold menace of Ralph Fiennes in Schindler’s List to the high camp of Dick Shawn in The Producers. With his tight smile and pit-bull jawline, he bullies his way through his every scene, terrifying and electrifying. It’s the kind of performance that a prankster like Tarantino might call S-S-sen-sational.

Also of interest are the yummy Colin Firth with Tom Ford. Check out the rest.