CLEARLY, AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED, HE WAS OUR GREATEST COMTEMPORARY FILM DIRECTOR. HIS FILMS LEFT A MARK ON SOCIETY, AND WILL BE CLASSICS ETERNALLY. I CANNOT BELIEVE HE IS GONE. YESTERDAY. A MAN WHO KNEW HOW TO REACH INSIDE YOUR SOUL AND TOUCH THE MOST SENSITIVE NERVES OF YOUR EXISTENCE.
BACK IN 1971 I SAW A FILM CALLED THE SWIMMER WITH BURT LANCASTER. IT WAS A TRULY FASCINATING FILM, AND I WATCHED IT MANY TIMES. I LEARNED THAT MR. POLLOCK HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH THAT FILM BRIEFLY. UNCREDITED.
LAUGH, WEEP, THINK, AND BE CAPTIVATED.
He was in 77 films as himself; he was a cinematographer in one; he was an actor in
32; he produced 47; and he directed 32.
Here is a list of his most notable films as director:
This Property is Condemned 1966 Natalie Wood, Robert Redford
The Swimmer 1968 Burt Lancaster, Janice Rule, Kim Hunter
They Shoot Horses Don't They? 1969 Jane Fonda, Gig Young
The Way We Were 1973 Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford
Three Days of The Condor 1975 Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway
Absence of Malice 1981 Paul Newman, Sally Field
Tootsie 1982 Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lang
Out of Africa 1985 Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Michael Kitchen
Havana 1990 Robert Redford, Lena Olin
The Firm 1993 Tom Cruise, Gene Hackman
Sabrina 1995 Harrison Ford, Julia Ormond
Random Hearts 1999 Harrison Ford, Kristin Scott Thomas
Sketches of Frank Gehry 2005 Barry Diller, Michael Eisner, Sydney Pollack
and when he died there were four projects in development. Apparently he had been suffering from cancer the last nine months, which I doubt few people knew. If I had known, I would have sent him a note.
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