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  • Sydney Pollack 1934–2008 - 28 May 2008
    -Sydney Pollack 1934-2008- -Sydney Pollack, the American actor and filmmaker, passed away after a battle with cancer, Monday. He was 73.- -Pollack won the Academy Award for Best Director and Best Picture for Out of Africa in 1985, and was nominated on three other


  • Sydney Pollack dies at 73 - 28 May 2008
    Academy award-winning director Sydney Pollack has died at the age of 73.-The Out of Africa director died of cancer at his home in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, surrounded by his family, his publicist said-Diagnosed with cancer just ten months ago, the director and pro


  • Kidman and Pollack come to London - 15 April 2005
    Oscar winner Nicole Kidman has been in London for the premiere of her new film The Interpreter.-Together with director Sydney Pollack, the Cold Mountain star sought to publicise her role as United Nations interpreter Silvia Broome.-Pollack, meanwhile, hailed the perform

Sydney Pollack - what members say


  • Jeremiah Johnson
  • Jeremiah Johnson review by Charles Brickley from Andover, Hampshire England
    Rated - 4 stars Rocky Robby Redford 8 February 2007
    ...es of American Natives, occasionally killing them too. Well shot by Director Sydney Pollack and D of P Duke Callaghan in some pretty inhospitable spots up to 600 miles apa...  
  • Absence Of Malice
  • Absence Of Malice review by Charles Brickley from Andover, Hampshire England
    Rated - 3 stars Malicious Attorney 8 May 2008
    ... little dated now but I feel that the quality which we have come to expect from Sydney Pollack as a Director is stil apparent. The District Attorney is under pressure to g...  
  • The Interpreter
  • The Interpreter review by James Waddell from London, UK
    Rated - 4 stars Great Movie But Not Believable 17 April 2005
    ...ather than protecting her starts to suspect her involvement. At the hands of Sydney Pollack it is no surprise the movie is beautifully shot with clever use of camera angle...  

Sydney Pollack - filmography


  • Michael Clayton on DVD (2007)
    Starring: George Clooney,  Tom Wilkinson,  Tilda Swinton
    Director: Tony Gilroy
    Certificate: 15
    Arthur Edens (Wilkinson), a lawyer defending an agro-chemical corporation against a class-action suit, is overwhelmed by guilt and cracks up. Michael Clayton (Clooney), his law firm’s ‘fixer’, is sent to sort Arthur out, but the corporation deploy even dirtier tricks to solve the problem.
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  • Random Hearts on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Harrison Ford,  Kristin Scott-Thomas,  Charles S. Dutton
    Director: Sydney Pollack
    Certificate: 15
    Dutch Van Den Broeck is a sergeant in the Washington DC police department and Kay Chandler a New Hampshire congresswoman. Both of their careers and their marriages depend on trust - or so they thought until they are thrown together when Dutch's wife and Kay's husband perish in a plane crash. Their ..read more »
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  • A Civil Action on DVD (1998)
    Starring: John Travolta,  Robert Duvall,  Stephen Fry
    Director: Steve Zaillain
    Certificate: 15
    Jan Schlichtmann, a tenacious young lawyer, is confronted with the litigation of a lifetime in this unbelievable real-life story. Several families in the small town of Woburn, Massachusetts, have suffered the tragic losses of their children to the rare cancer known as leukemia. After having their ..read more »
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  • Sabrina on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Harrison Ford,  Julia Ormond,  Greg Kinnear
    Director: Sydney Pollack
    Certificate: PG
    Sydney Pollack directs Harrison Ford and Julia Ormond in this remake of the 1954 Billy Wilder romantic comedy. Ford and Greg Kinnear portray a pair of brothers who are both potential heirs to the Larrabee family fortune. David, a dashing playboy, and Linus, a sensible stodgy businessman, both end ..read more »
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  • The Firm on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Tom Cruise,  Jeanne Tripplehorn,  Ed Harris
    Director: Sydney Pollack
    Certificate: 15
    Sydney Pollack directs Tom Cruise in this legal thriller based on John Grisham's best-seller. Cruise plays Mitch McDeere, an ambitious young lawyer who accepts an unmatchable offer from a Memphis law firm only to discover that the deal was too good to be true. As he becomes tangled in a web of ..read more »
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  • Husbands And Wives on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Woody Allen,  Mia Farrow,  Blythe Danner
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: 15
    Gabe and Judy Roth (Woody Allen and Mia Farrow), a long-married couple, find their relationship starting to crumble when their best friends, Jack and Sally (Sydney Pollack and Judy Davis), announce that they are separating. Allen's use of a hand-held camera and jump-cuts adds immediacy to a ..read more »
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  • Out Of Africa (2 discs) on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Meryl Streep,  Robert Redford,  Klaus Maria Brandauer
    Director: Sydney Pollack
    Certificate: PG
    Adapted from Isak Dinesen's novel, OUT OF AFRICA, this film plaintively tells the story of two troubled adults who meet and fall in love in the African wilderness. Karen Blixen-Flecke (Meryl Streep) is a modern woman, caught in the shortcomings of a practical marriage. Finch Hatton (Robert Redford) ..read more »
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  • Tootsie on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Dustin Hoffman,  Jessica Lange,  Teri Garr
    Director: Sydney Pollack
    Certificate: 15
    When theatrical mastermind Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman) finds himself blacklisted by just about every producer in the acting business, he decides to thwart the entertainment industry by disguising himself as an older woman and auditioning for a daytime soap opera. Dorsey arrives for the audition ..read more »
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  • Absence Of Malice on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Paul Newman,  Sally Field,  Bob Balaban
    Director: Sydney Pollack
    Certificate: PG
    Sydney Pollack directs Paul Newman as Michael Gallagher, the innocent son of a long-dead Mafia boss who suddenly finds that he is the subject of a criminal investigation. Eventually he discovers that the press's source is intentionally pressuring him and hoping that he'll leak insider information ..read more »
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  • The Yakuza on DVD (1975)
    Starring: Robert Mitchum,  Ken Takakura,  Brian Keith
    Director: Sydney Pollack
    Certificate: TBC
    Sydney Pollack directed this action drama in which a Yakuza boss has kidnapped the daughter of a shipping executive named George Tanner, believing that he has cheated him in a gun deal. Tanner (Brian Keith) enlists the aid of his old army buddy, Harry Kilmer (Robert Mitchum), to go to Japan and ..read more »
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  • Castle Keep on DVD (1969)
    Starring: Burt Lancaster,  Peter Falk,  Patrick O'Neal
    Director: Sydney Pollack
    Certificate: 15
    Sydney Pollack directs this dramatic allegory about an American military squadron seeking refuge in a castle in the Ardennes Forest during the final days of World War II. When the soldiers get a little too comfortable in their new environment, they spark a conflict with its owner over the castle ..read more »
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