Articles tagged "sydney pollack"

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999 Feature

Part 2: The Virgin Suicides to The Blair Witch Project (May - August 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[24.Mar.09] :. In Part Two of our look at the most memorable films of 1999, we experience music, foul-mouthed mayhem, and a late, great auteur's final cinematic statement.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

 

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Sydney Pollack was an actor’s director — and an actor’s actor

by Carrie Rickey [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[27.May.08] :. Director Sydney Pollack was an actor’s director who saw stars in uncharacteristic conjunctions and alignments. He made Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand a couple in “The “Way We...

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Film Review

Made of Honor

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.May.08] :. If she lived in another movie, you'd almost feel sorry for Hannah (Michelle Monaghan). But she's trapped in the execrable Made of Honor, which insists that she behave nearly as inanely as her two suitors.

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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 Feature

A Gallery of Good Works: The Best Films of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[11.Jan.08] :. From Julian Schnabel's artsy The Diving Bell and the Butterfly to the legendary Coen Brothers splendid adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men, PopMatters counts down the 30 best films of 2007.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007

 

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 Feature

Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Female

by PopMatters Staff

[9.Jan.08] :. From the most sweetly nuanced performance of Jennifer Jason Leigh's career to Cate Blanchett's revelatory portrayal of Bob Dylan in I'm Not There, the women of 2007 were stellar.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007

 

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 Feature

Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Male

by PopMatters Staff

[9.Jan.08] :. From the tender and eerie precision of Sam Riley's depiction of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis in Control to yet another superlative performance by Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood, PopMatters highlights the best male actors of 2007.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007

 

In suit-hairdo uniform, Tilda Swinton becomes legal evil

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[11.Oct.07] :. TORONTO—Maybe it’s the military lineage (she comes from a long line of generals), but Tilda Swinton is probably one of the few actresses working today who can slip guy-rope into her...

 
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Michael Clayton

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Oct.07] :. The film's strength lies in its poetic inclinations, its meditation on the ways that money, politics, and fear shape moral choices.

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Avenue Montaigne (Fauteuils dorchestre) (2006)

by Michael Buening

[16.Feb.07] :. Danièle Thompson's Avenue Montaigne is a paean to Paris, love, and the invigorating power of art.

 

Sketches of Frank Gehry by Sydney Pollack (2005)

by Noah Davis

[1.Nov.06] :. Sydney Pollack's film captures Frank Gehry's story exquisitely, taking us from initial conception to finished form.

 

The Interpreter (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Apr.05] :. Sydney Pollack's latest thriller touches on a range of topical matters, from diplomatic skirting of African genocides to U.S. intelligence agency confusions.

 

Independent’s Day: The Ultimate Insider’s Look at the Crazy World of Sundance (1998)

by Jennifer Lind-Westbrook

[6.Jul.04] :. Indie fanatics will appreciate this behind-the-scenes look at the independent film business set against the backdrop of the Sundance Film Festival.