Sydney Pollack

David O. Russell gets personal in 'Silver Linings' [Video]

2012-12-05 11:26:00

Before "Silver Linings Playbook," filmmaker David O. Russell had written all the movies he directed. But when the late Sydney Pollack gave him a copy of Matthew Quick's novel about a bipolar man moving back home after leaving a neural health facility,...

Hollywood finds romance in travel

2012-02-05 00:00:00

Love is always lovelier some place other than home. Well, at least in the celluloid universe. Traveling by boat, train or even bus can lead to romantic entanglements in the movies, as does visiting �ber-romantic locales such as Rome, Paris and Venice. Of...

The greatest L.A. movies? We have 140, and shrinking...

2011-12-04 06:00:00

Bert Schneider dies at 78; 'Easy Rider' producer

2011-12-14 00:00:00

Bert Schneider, the iconoclastic producer behind a trio of influential movies — "Easy Rider," "Five Easy Pieces" and "The Last Picture Show" — that captured the rootlessness and discontent of the late 1960s and '70s and became symbols of a new...

Friday’s Highlights: 'Chuck' on NBC

2011-12-29 21:36:44

Frank Gehry is working for free as architect of new Jazz Bakery

2012-01-31 21:33:21

PASSINGS: Mikey Welsh, Doris Belack, Diane Cilento

2011-10-11 00:00:00

Mikey Welsh Former bass player with rock band Weezer Mikey Welsh, 40, the former bass player for the alternative rock band Weezer, was found dead in a Chicago hotel room Saturday, police said. Chicago police spokeswoman Laura Kubiak said employees of...

Sydney Pollack property in Pacific Palisades sells quickly

2011-08-10 12:53:00

The longtime family home of film director and producer Sydney Pollack and his wife, Claire, has sold in Pacific Palisades less than two months after it was listed at $7.85 million. The sales price was not divulged and is not yet available in the public...

Brad Pitt puts Malibu beach house on the market

2011-09-03 00:00:00

Brad Pitt has listed his gated Malibu beach house for $13.75 million. The view home he shares with actress Angelina Jolie sits on 1.26 blufftop acres with a tennis court, a lap pool and access to the beach. Features include walls of glass doors, a walk-...

David Rayfiel dies at 87; screenwriter collaborated with Sydney Pollack

2011-06-24 00:00:00

David Rayfiel, a screenwriter and master script doctor who made his mark — often uncredited — on films by director Sydney Pollack that frequently featured Robert Redford, including "Three Days of the Condor," "The Way We Were" and "Out of...

Reading L.A.: Charles Jencks on Frank Gehry, Thom Mayne and the rest of the L.A. School

2011-07-29 16:33:20

Book review: 'Robert Redford: The Biography' by Michael Feeney Callan

2011-05-15 19:15:00

In Michael Feeney Callan's fawning new biography, we get plenty of the actor, director and environmentalist we already know but only a tantalizing, too-brief glimpse of a young man we almost never hear about: Charles Robert Redford Jr., Angeleno. From...

In this 1975 political thriller directed by Sydney Pollack, Redford is a CIA researcher on the lam from assassins.

2012-11-05 00:00:00

The Oscar-winner director died of stomach cancer in 2008. He was 73.

2012-09-05 08:11:52

One doesn't think of "Out of Africa" as a train movie, but it is on a train that Karen Blixen (Meryl Streep, left) meets the love of her life, the dashing Denys Finch Hatton (Robert Redford, right) while traveling to meet her boorish husband (Klaus Maria Brandauer) at his Kenyan coffee plantation.

2012-02-04 15:09:40