Word: pollacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Directed by SYDNEY POLLACK...
...being only because Redford agrees to show up in it. Redford is a good, shrewd, sometimes very funny actor, but the fact that movies like Three Days of the Condor are not really worth making at all is a thought that occurs to no one. Neither Redford, Director Sydney Pollack (The Way We Were) nor any of the assortment of assembled co-stars (Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, Max von Sydow, John Houseman) can make material like this better than passable. No one could, and you wonder why anyone bothers. Redford and all his co-stars and all the elaborate production...
Directed by SYDNEY POLLACK Screenplay by PAUL SCHRADER and ROBERT TOWNE...
Mystical Grace. Director Sydney Pollack (They Shoot Horses, Don 't They? and The Way We Were) is not a master of the action genre. The Yakuza's scenes of violence lack real force. For all the slashings, knife fights and ritual sacrificing of fingers, the film is, strangely, not violent enough. It does not catch at all the awful mystical grace that can draw and hold a man to such a life. The violence is held down, whereas the intricacies of the Yakuza are too extensively explained. The movie would have been more chilling had it been stranger...
...Hayden Gallery has put on a show of Drawings by Five Abstract Expressionist Painters. Abstract Expressionism as a movement put American art in the top position it has today, but these five painters--Gorky, Guston, Kline, deKooning and Pollack--would be outstanding even If they hadn't formed a style. The drawings are very different from their plantings, but just as visually exciting, and this show shouldn't be missed. The gallery's at 160 Memorial Drive, daily 10-4, Tuesdays also 6-9, through March...