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Author	Topic: RIP Sidney Pollack

Scott Standard Userer	What can one say. Another great one has left. Scott
posted 05-26-2008 09:24 PM PT (US)

Al Standard Userer	Watched Jeremiah Johnson recently for the first time. Really enjoyed it. Also recently saw a documentary he did on architect Frank Gehry. I wish more working directors were as cultured as Pollack was, especially some of the current video-gamer music video directors.
posted 05-27-2008 09:09 AM PT (US)

Scott Standard Userer	Wow! That's almost exactly what I said on a MySpace post. These new video/MTV style directors could really learn a lot from the likes of Sidney Pollack. NP: Indy and that Scull thingie.
posted 05-27-2008 10:01 AM PT (US)

Jeron Standard Userer	quote: Originally posted by Scott: Wow! That's almost exactly what I said on a MySpace post. These new video/MTV style directors could really learn a lot from the likes of Sidney Pollack. It's sad to see such a gifted filmmaker go. He died on my birthday. Mr. Pollack, may you rest in peace. Scott, on a side note... totally unrelated... tried e-mailing you a few weeks back. My phone number has changed. Try to get in touch with me if you can. Okay, carry on w/ the Sydney Pollack praise.
posted 05-27-2008 10:59 AM PT (US)

Crono/Kyp Standard Userer	Just read this on another side. Really sad news. He was one of the greats. He'll be missed. --Brian NP: Out of Africa
posted 05-27-2008 11:03 AM PT (US)

scoreguy16 Standard Userer	Very sad... He was extremely gifted and wise in the art of film making. I still love to show people his feature on The Interpreter about widescreen movies.
posted 05-27-2008 12:06 PM PT (US)

nuts_score Standard Userer	Pollack was a force to be reckoned with in American film. While I've always been indifferent to his films (he strikes me as an Amercian David Lean, and like Lean his films are always a flawed marvel) but he was one hell of an acting force whenever he would set in front of the camera. His Cingular Wireless PSA that played before movies at the cinema from a year or two ago always had me in stitches ("I'm sorry, is my directing interfering with your phone call?") and he was great recently in Michael Clayton (my favorite performance of his is in Eyes Wide Shut). On a side note, but not off-topic considering where this thread has touched thus far: I don't think it's fair to knock "MTV/music video" directors, being as that many of the very talented ones have already shown their worth (Michel Gondry, Chris Cunningham, Anton Cobijn, David Fincher, and Spike Jonze to name a few) and are as much influenced by classic filmmakers as Pollack and other 70s filmmakers. I think it's a misleading label. A few, like Gondry and Jonze, actually seem to be making progressive movements in film by trying new techniques inspired by the old foreign masters as well as retaining as a rather old-fashioned approach to storytelling and effects.
posted 05-28-2008 06:52 PM PT (US)

Al Standard Userer	They are extreme exceptions to the rule.
posted 05-28-2008 08:54 PM PT (US)

franz_conrad Standard Userer	I think there's a bit of a divide between Pollack and Lean. What I like about the Pollack films I do like though is the stately pacing of them. He's not in a hurry for anybody, which is a sense that pervades even his thrillers like THE FIRM. And he did what he did very well. Or better than Ron Howard at least. I did, like Andrew, like him more as an actor though. HUSBANDS AND WIVES and EYES WIDE SHUT seem to be the two peaks there.
posted 05-28-2008 09:50 PM PT (US)

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