Movie Critic Article: Sydney Pollack
Aches for Movies "It is not impossible to make mainstream films which are really good. Costa-Gavras once said that accidents can happen." Sydney Pollack . "Every single art form is involved in film, in a way. mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way." Sydney Pollack "I am a traditionalist. I think that my films are conventional in form, but not necessarily in point of view." Sydney Pollack Most people watch a movie because they like the star in it. Hence the glamour of stardom which surprisingly has become insufficient. Now stars are better off as celebs. People sporting abstraction perceive a movie as either a cinematic retelling of a story or a 'work of art'. They associate the movie with its maker and therefore a distinct category of viewers is created that will ask you upfront: who made the movie? Who directed it? Th...