Sydney Pollack
Sydney Pollack died yesterday. I'm looking for a good video tribute and will post one here if I can track one down, but in the meantime I thought it might be interesting to look at his all-time Top Ten list, which was published in 2002 (in no specific order):
Casablanca
Citizen Kane
The Conformist
The Godfather, Part II
Grand Illusion
The Leopard
Once Upon a Time in America
Raging Bull
The Seventh Seal
Sunset Boulevard
It's quite a list. I wasn't familiar with The Conformist and had to look it up -- it's a Bernardo Bertolucci film from the 1970s; a political film about fascism. The Leopard, by the way, is a classic Italian film starring Burt Lancaster about Italian land owners in the 1860s, currently available on DVD as part of the Criterion Collection. I haven't seen either film.
No good tributes yet but we can at least watch one of his memorable performances, this one from The Sopranos: