Art Vs Commerce: The Norman Jewison Affair
Until the late 1970s and the advent of video recorders for a mass market, only film critics or the dedicated cineaste would take the trouble to examine the arc of a career in film. Once a film, even a highly successful one, had spent its time on release it would disappear, or circulate again years [...]
Rollerball
Rollerball (1975) was made at Pinewood and on location at the Olympic stadium in Munich. Director Norman Jewison saw a short story by William Harrison entitled Rollerball Murder. The story appealed to him as he saw immediately the prescient resonance of the plot. Rollerball portrays the world of 2018 as being run by huge corporations. [...]
