Remembering Sydney Pollack
May 27, 2008 | Director, actor and producer Sydney Pollack -- who died Monday, at age 73 -- made some terrific movies and some that were not so hot. But his death represents a loss the meaning of which isn't immediately apparent, at least not until you start fitting it into the context of what mainstream Hollywood filmmaking used to be, and what it has become...
... In 1985 Pollack made the hugely successful "Out of Africa," and won an Oscar for it. But his finest pictures -- among them the unsettling Depression-era drama "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" (1969), "Tootsie" (1982), which set the standard for what modern romantic comedies could be, and the 1973 film "The Way We Were," which satisfied to an almost mystical degree every promise and desire ever instilled in us, the collective audience, by the tradition of the old Hollywood romance weeper. Appearing at the beginning of the '70s, just as so many filmmakers were delighting in breaking the old rules, he film was a reminder that conventions didn't have to be seen as conventional...
Sydney Pollack
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