Sydney Pollack

Collected Interviews (livre en anglais)

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Sous la direction de Patrick McGilligan et Paul Cronin

Type

Entretiens et Interviews

Sujet

Réalisateur > Sydney Pollack

Mots Clés

Sydney Pollack, réalisateur, entretiens

Année d'édition

2026 (26 mai 2026) (à paraître)

Editeur

University Press of Kentucky

Collection

Screen Classics

Langue

anglais

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Format

Broché • 296 pages
15 x 23 cm

ISBN

978-1-9859041-8-7

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Description de l'ouvrage :
Sydney Pollack was a true actor's director―a filmmaker who came up through the ranks, starting as a bit-part TV performer before turning to directing. From his debut feature The Slender Thread (1965) to his final film, The Interpreter (2005), Pollack built a reputation for intelligent, emotionally resonant storytelling. He forged creative partnerships with stars like Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Al Pacino, Barbra Streisand, and Tom Cruise, guiding iconic performances in American films for four decades. An Academy Award winner for Out of Africa (1985) and a nominee for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) and Tootsie (1982), Pollack left behind a legacy of popular and personal films marked by their superior craftsmanship.

Sydney Pollack: Collected Interviews brings together more than twenty in-depth conversations with the acclaimed director, spanning from 1970 to 2007. Sourced from a range of international publications, these interviews offer candid tales and intimate glimpses of Pollack's big-name collaborations. More than just a portrait of one man's career, the book is a wide-angle view of post-1960s Tinseltown itself: the wheeling and dealing, the creative clashes, and the evolution of American cinema. This collection sheds light on the nuts and bolts of moviemaking, using Pollack's own voice to inform, entertain, and revisit an immense talent who epitomized the best of Hollywood.

À propos des auteurs :
Patrick McGilligan is a film biographer and historian. His many works include the New York Times Notable Books George Cukor: A Double Life and Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast, the Edgar Award finalist Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light, and the life stories of Jack Nicholson, Clint Eastwood, Robert Altman, Oscar Micheaux, Mel Brooks, and Woody Allen. Paul Cronin is the editor of several books, including Alexander Mackendrick's On Film-Making: An Introduction to the Craft of the Director, Werner Herzog's A Guide for the Perplexed, and Abbas Kiarostami's Lessons with Kiarostami. He is the founder and director of the publishing company Sticking Place Books.

Revue de Presse :
"These handpicked interviews reveal the wide range of experiences Sydney Pollack had as an actor, acting teacher, director, and producer, as well as his intense relationship with screenwriting and screenwriters. For too long, Pollack has been underappreciated. This book accomplishes much in giving him the recognition he so richly deserves."―Vincent LoBrutto, author of The Seventies: The Decade That Changed American Film Forever

"A world-class edition that explores Sydney Pollack all the way through his illustrious career. Patrick McGilligan and Paul Cronin illustrate their love of Pollack with a miraculous international exploration of his stories, successes, failures, and insights. This collection will delight film students, movie buffs, and Hollywood historians for years to come."―Robert Crane, coauthor of Crane: Sex, Celebrity, and My Father's Unsolved Murder

"Director-producer-actor Sydney Pollack has never been adequately recognized by scholars, and in this remarkable book McGilligan and Cronin have done him a service. Their well-chosen interviews with Pollack are wonderfully instructive about the arts of directing, acting, photography, screenwriting, and music scores. It's a book that cinephiles will learn from and treasure."―James Naremore, Professor Emeritus at Indiana University and author of Acting in the Cinema

"Sydney Pollack was a consummate actor and director of actors, a gifted visualist who understood the demands of character, behavior and story, and a craftsman who relied on instinct. Patrick McGilligan and Paul Cronin's selection of his lucid and engaging interviews is one of the best books about the nuts, bolts, and poetry of big-studio filmmaking since Sidney Lumet's Making Movies (1995)."―Michael Sragow, film critic and author of Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master

"For too long, Sydney Pollack was regarded as merely a house director for Burt Lancaster and Robert Redford, which neatly overlooked the fact that his films for those great male stars focused on their character's vulnerabilities. This book confirms Pollack's great gift with actors. Most importantly, it establishes him as one of Hollywood's most discerning and vibrant raconteurs, with his recollection of Stanley Kubrick and the strange, garbled Eyes Wide Shut being particularly revelatory."―Scott Eyman, author of Joan Crawford: A Woman's Face

"After hearing from many actors (especially Robert Redford) what a pleasure it is to work with Sydney Pollack, I finally got a chance to co-finance and distribute The Electric Horseman and watch Sydney direct. He was calm, supportive of cast and crew, and maintained a sense of humor throughout. A partnership between Universal and Columbia in 1979, because we had Willie Nelson, and Columbia had Bob. Willie would co-star and create the soundtrack. The set, unlike many others, was a love affair - Jane Fonda, Redford, Willie and many of Pollack's stock players. This was a perfect example of thoughtful direction, mutual respect and an abiding desire to actually have fun making a feature. So rare."―Thom Mount, Universal Studios executive

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