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...Firm," while a thrilling novel, needed considerable plot work to be made into a plausible movie, director Sydney Pollack told more than 300 people at the Harvard Film Archive Saturday night...
...Firm" fans around Harvard are in luck: director Sydney Pollack will visit the Harvard Film Archive tomorrow to discuss the hit film after a screening in the Carpenter Center...
Brown will not only interview and moderate a discussion with Pollack after tomorrow's screening, but he will also show an interview with Tom Cruise that was videotaped earlier this week...
DIRECTOR: SYDNEY POLLACK...
...often though, Sydney Pollack, whose swank and care energized the Redford thriller Three Days of the Condor in 1975, surrenders to genre goofiness, setting up bad guys who are omnipotent at the start and impotent at the end. Like a complex lawsuit, the movie gets buried in paperwork; there's too much walking and talking. (See Tom think. See Tom brood. See Tom make photocopies. See Tom amble across his living room -- in slow motion.) And at the end, too much running and gunning. Maybe every thriller demands a chase, but a clever thriller deserves a better one. On that...