I saw Fiddler on the Roof on Sunday, with Jewison there to introduce it. The guy hosting didn’t even get a chance to ask a question: Jewison started talking, and he proceeded to tell stories for the next 20 minutes without a break. (He spoke to one of my university classes ages ago.)
He was never considered a great filmmaker, just a solid commercial one, part of the early-‘60s wave of TV directors that included Lumet and Frankenheimer. He had an advocate in Kael, and he usually fared well at the Academy Awards. I thought he’d make for a good poll because, even though are a couple of obvious favourites (my vote will go to the most obvious), there’s no sure-thing winner. Whatever finishes first will probably draw fewer than half the votes.
Poll Results
Option | Votes |
Rollerball (1975) | 4 |
Fiddler on the Roof (1971) | 3 |
In the Heat of the Night (1967) | 3 |
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) | 2 |
The Cincinnati Kid (1965) | 1 |
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966) | 1 |
Send Me No Flowers (1964) | 1 |
A Soldier's Story (1984) | 1 |
In Country (1989) | 0 |
Other People's Money (1991) | 0 |
Only You (1994) | 0 |
40 Pounds of Trouble (1963) | 0 |
Bogus (1996) | 0 |
The Hurricane (1999) | 0 |
Dinner with Friends (2001) (TV) | 0 |
Walter and Henry (2001) (TV) | 0 |
Moonstruck (1987) | 0 |
Agnes of God (1985) | 0 |
Best Friends (1982) | 0 |
...And Justice for All (1979) | 0 |
F.I.S.T. (1978) | 0 |
Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) | 0 |
Gaily, Gaily (1969) | 0 |
The Art of Love (1965) | 0 |
The Thrill of It All (1963) | 0 |
The Statement (2003) | 0 |
― clemenza, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 01:34 (eight years ago) link