It’s too bad about Sydney Pollack, who died yesterday, he was a mere 73 and seemed to have a lot of creative energy left in him. His last completed project as director was a competent documentary about the architect Frank Gehry and it was exciting to see an old-school Hollywood director moving into a new cinematic genre. Most casual film-goers might only be aware of Pollack as an actor, my first introduction to the man was probably his role in Kubricks “Eyes Wide Shut”. As funny as “Tootsie” is I prefer “Three Days of the Condor”, it largely started the conspiracy film trend and still looks good after 30+ plus years, as Dave Kehr observes: “This was the man who made Robert Redford seem interesting”. A toast to one of the last.
