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Post by teleadm on Jul 23, 2021 21:38:21 GMT
Yep he is still around, the one who was nominated seven times but never won, except the "we are sorry award" called Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1999. It's interesting, he started in lighter movies, and then moved to other dimensions and at the same time being not to far from being traditional in some aspects. He retired in 2003 from film directing.  The poll is both for fun, and yourselves as to remember what movies you might have missed over the years or thankfully missed over the years, depending on on your tastes. It's an open poll but pls only vote for movies that you would give between 6/10 and 10/10 After writing down all the movies on the poll, there is a few I had forgotten, and a few I wish I had forgotten. For those who wan't to talk more, feel free to do so!  First time published in 2004 |
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Post by petrolino on Jul 23, 2021 21:58:50 GMT
Happy Birthday, Mr. Jewison!
One of my cinematic heroes. With Richard Donner no longer with us, I think he's almost the last man standing among the greats from the Golden Age of Television who went on to have long and strong careers in cinema. William Friedkin caugh the tail-end of the era but I think he was more a documentary filmmaker at the time. Norman Jewison's friend and fellow Canadian Arthur Hiller is no longer with us.
I'm delighted to be able to vote. I voted for 14 movies I enjoy greatly. Thanks.
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Post by OldAussie on Jul 23, 2021 22:03:13 GMT
I've seen 13 - and all are 6/10 or more.
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Post by teleadm on Jul 23, 2021 22:04:57 GMT
A few personal reflections.
Rollerball 1975 somehow this was one of those movies the though guys at school went to see, when I asked them what it was about, all I got was rollerskates and wham bang violence. When I finally got to see it 30 years later I found it to be extremely boring, but that might happen to satires, they get old very quickly.
Jesus Christ Superstar 1973, I grew up with that three (or maybe two) LP set, but when seeing the movie, it felt like a leftover flower power movie.
The Thomas Crown Affair 1968, I remember being amazed at the used of what should I call it "many mini views" at was going on at the same time at a cinema, and been tempted many times to get a DVD, but in backhead there is "many mini views" that worked so well at a cinema screen if it could work on a regular widescreen TV and still have the same impact.
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Post by petrolino on Jul 23, 2021 22:14:22 GMT
A few personal reflections. Rollerball 1975 somehow this was one of those movies the though guys at school went to see, when I asked them what it was about, all I got was rollerskates and wham bang violence. When I finally got to see it 30 years later I found it to be extremely boring, but that might happen to satires, they get old very quickly. Jesus Christ Superstar 1973, I grew up with that three (or maybe two) LP set, but when seeing the movie, it felt like a leftover flower power movie. The Thomas Crown Affair 1968, I remember being amazed at the used of what should I call it "many mini views" at was going on at the same time at a cinema, and been tempted many times to get a DVD, but in backhead there is "many mini views" that worked so well at a cinema screen if it could work on a regular widescreen TV and still have the same impact.
I'm a fan of both Robert Wise and Norman Jewison who went from genre to genre, but in both their cases, I'm not much into their musicals, although I appreciate they both directed classic musicals.
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Post by politicidal on Jul 23, 2021 22:25:52 GMT
Seen seven of his movies. The lowest ranking of all of them is The Thomas Crown Affair which is at a 6/10.
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Post by petrolino on Jul 24, 2021 1:27:07 GMT
🇨🇦 Toasting Norman Jewison ... 🇨🇦
"My career is based on saying no. Sidney Poitier told me many, many years ago that the first four or five movies that you do will determine how you’re perceived in the business. So I was very blessed that the second movie I did was with Norman Jewison, the third movie I did was with Sidney Lumet, and the fourth movie I did was 'Cry Freedom' with Richard Attenborough, for which I was (Oscar) nominated for the first time. I was off to the races. There were other movies that I could have done and I didn’t do."
- Denzel Washington, The Talks
Steve McQueen & Norman Jewison
Norman Jewison & Sidney Poitier
Norman Jewison & Rod Steiger
Norman Jewison, Anne Bancroft, Jane Fonda & Gene Kelly
"When it comes to movie directors from the 20th century with a prolific body of beloved films, Norman Jewison is right up there. In his new book, 'Norman Jewison: A Director’s Life', Ira Wells chronicles that career. Jewison directed 24 movies across five decades, from his debut in 1962 to his last film, in 2003. His work included such important films as 'In the Heat of the Night', the original 'The Thomas Crown Affair', 'Fiddler on the Roof', 'Jesus Christ Superstar', 'Rollerball', and 'Moonstruck'.
But these days Jewison is also less of a household name than many of his contemporaries. He never really emerged as a famous personality or ubiquitous media figure, and while his career straddled numerous eras, he wasn't really part of any clique or coterie of directors that emerged in the '60s, '70s, or '80s. While his movies are much loved, Jewison wasn't exactly a pure auteur, and his work doesn't get talked about in the same reverent tones as that of Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, or Steven Spielberg.
"They are these giant figures in the industry," the late screenwriter William Goldman says in the book of Jewison, Sidney Lumet, and Walter Hill. "They could walk down any street, in any city in the world, and no one would know who they were."
- Stephen Silver, Broad Street Review
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Post by kijii on Jul 24, 2021 14:27:49 GMT
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