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Pollack's 'Films Always Felt Like Best Pictures'

Posted May 27, 08 3:45 PM CDT in Arts & Living 

(Newser) – Sydney Pollack was a throwback, Desson Thomson writes in the Washington Post. He liked to say he didn’t have a style, and it was true—he "made movies in what seemed like every conceivable genre—thrillers, westerns, epics, actioners and comedies. But his formula was pretty much the same: Cast great actors as even greater characters."

"I haven’t broken any new ground in the form of a film. My strength is with actors,” Pollack once told Roger Ebert, who writes in the Chicago Sun-Times that the mere mention of his films stirs “smiles, affection, nostalgia, respect.” And Xan Brooks notes in the Guardian that in his recent acting gigs, "Pollack was more captivating in front of the camera than he was behind it."

Sources: Washington Post, Chicago Sun-Times, Slate

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Graphic shows major films and roles of Sydney Pollack.   (AP Photo)
In this Sept. 9, 2006 file photo, U.S. director and actor Sydney Pollack.   (AP Photo/Michel Spingler, file)
In this Dec. 1981 file photo, director Sydney Pollack, right, directs actor Paul Newman.   (AP Photo)
In this July 17, 1993 file photo, award winning film director Sydney Pollack listens to a student's question at Harvard university in Cambridge, Mass.   (AP Photo)
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