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It seems like all I do on this blog these days is report the increasingly sad news of those filmmaking greats who are no longer with us. Yesterday, at the age of 73, director-producer-actor, Sydney Pollack joined their ranks.

I have found myself, over the years, explaining to people new to the film industry who Sydney Pollack was, and with great confusion, they try to understand how this actor can be a producer and even a director. As actor, from his chilling performance in Kubrick’s “Eyes Wide Shut”, and more recently, “Michael Clayton” he brought a realism to the characters he was portraying. As director/producer, he was behind some of the most influential movies from the last thirty years: “Jeremiah Johnson”, “The Way We Were”, “Three Days of the Condor”, “Absence of Malice”, “Tootsie”, working alongside some of the greatest talents in film, Robert Redford, Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, to name only a few.

If you do nothing else this week, rent a Sydney Pollack film and celebrate the career of another lost irreplaceable talent.

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