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 [...]
Flashback 4 : Sydney Pollack & Sidney Poitier in ’65
Sydney Pollack directs Sidney Poitier on the set of The Slender Thread (1965), the director’s feature debut. Both star and director would flourish in the 60s, Pollack carving out a career as a solid, professional filmmaker and a fine actor in his own right.
Flashback 3 : Steve McQueen joins First Artists in ’72
First Artists was a production company set up in 1969 by Sidney Poitier, Barbra Streisand and Paul Newman in order for these undisputed superstars to exert more control over projects. The set up was similar to United Artists, set up in 1919 by Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin and DW Griffith, for much the [...]
