Sydney Pollack Movies

Hollywoods biggest talents explore what is the recipe for blockbuster, flops, and how absolute happenstance and controlled luck can make movie magic.

A young man falls for his girlfriend's mother.

A young woman arrives in Paris where she finds a job as a waitress in bar next on Avenue Montaigne that caters to the surrounding theaters and the...

How the cinema industry does not respect the author's work as it was conceived, how manipulates the motion pictures in order to make them easier to...

The true story of Romper Room host "Miss Sherri" Finkbine, who, after the devastating effects of thalidomide were discovered in the early 1960s,...

"The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz" - a featurette narrated by Sydney Pollack.

A documentary chronicling the making of Kubrick's final film, 'Eyes Wide Shut', and his legacy.

First and foremost, Frank Gehry is an artist. Described as a young child as having golden hands, Frank begins his creation through sketch. Forming...

What is the state of cinema and what being a filmmaker means? What are the measures taken to protect authors' copyright? What is their legal status...

A look at the visual design of the film The Shining (1980).

A documentary filmography of Howard Hawks, including lengthy footage of Hawks himself discussing his films and many clips from his best-known...

A look inside the making of 'The Talented Mr. Ripley'.

Filmmakers at the Sundance Film Festival discuss what it is like to be an independent filmmaker, and what Sundance has done for them.

A biography of powerful Hollywood agent and executive Lew Wasserman.

This documentary about "2001: A Space Odyssey" looks at some of the things that seemed fanciful in 1968, which don't seem quite as much anymore.

A wonderfully entertaining series of interviews with Pollack, Newman, Field and Luedtke about the film, its development, its themes and the...

A governess put in charge of two young children begins to see the ghost of her dead predecessor.

An overview of the making of, and a look at the continuing popularity of, Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.

Film noir, which enjoyed particular success in the 1930s and 1940s, is probably the most profound genre of classic Hollywood cinema. Eckhart Schmidt...

Overview of director King Vidor's filmography.