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Posts Tagged "Sydney Pollack"
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The Yakuza ***** (1974, Robert Mitchum, Takakura Ken, Brian Keith) – Classic Movie Review 2,716
Sydney Pollack’s startling 1974 neo-noir gangster thriller film The Yakuza is the stomach-churning tale of Japanese crime syndicate members who abduct a wealthy American businessman’s daughter. Robert Mitchum stars as the ex-GI assigned to trace […]
The Way We Were ***½ (1973, Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman) – Classic Movie Review 2272
Director Sydney Pollack’s double Oscar-winning 1973 romantic drama The Way We Were is a thoroughly professional old-style Hollywood piece of work, well intentioned and often entertaining but hollow at the centre and painstakingly but mechanically […]
The Player ***** (1992, Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Peter Gallagher, Vincent D’Onofrio) – Classic Movie Review 2122
Cult favourite director Robert Altman’s 1992 Hollywood-insiders’ comedy thriller and satire on the film industry is one of his smartest, most celebrated movies. It is an all-knowing, lovingly-made movie, delightfully light-hearted and thoroughly entertaining with […]
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? **** (1969, Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York, Gig Young) – Classic Movie Review 2052
Based on Horace McCoy’s 1935 novel, director Sydney Pollack’s 1969 study of disparate group of characters desperate to win a gruelling 1932 Depression-era dance marathon is both incredibly atmospheric and evocative as well as thoughtful […]
Out of Africa **** (1985, Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer) – Classic Movie Review 1958
Producer-director Sydney Pollack’s deliriously plush and gorgeous-looking 1985 real-life romantic drama stars beautiful people Meryl Streep and Robert Redford as Danish baroness, plantation owner Karen Blixen and free-spirited big-game hunter Denys Finch Hatton, who fall […]
Changing Lanes **** (2002, Ben Affleck, Samuel L. Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 1425
Director Roger Michell’s 2002 drama is a real thriller. It was one of its year’s best films. After a minor road prang in the rain in New York, harassed, up-and-coming lawyer Ben Affleck and insurance […]
Three Days of the Condor **** (1975, Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Max Von Sydow, Cliff Robertson) – Classic Movie Review 1154
Director Sydney Pollack’s sizzling 1975 suspense classic thriller offers an eagerly taken perfect role for Robert Redford as Joseph Turner, an innocent bookish CIA researcher on the run from the evil Joubert (Max Von Sydow) […]