Directed by Norman Jewison (Moonstruck, The Hurricane), In the Heat of the Night won five Oscars in 1967: Best Picture, Best Actor (Rod Steiger), Best Screenplay (Stirling Silliphant), Best Editing (Hal Ashby), and Best Sound. Nearly fifty years later, the…
The directorial debut of actor-turned-director Sydney Pollack, 1965’s The Slender Thread is a tense, dramatic story shot in austere black and white. Based on real incident that was dramatized as the short story “Decision to Die” by Shana Alexander, which…
Many, including myself, consider Sidney Poitier one of the finest actors of the 20th century. It seems fitting then, that on January 27, 2008 Warner Brothers release The Sidney Poitier Collection, a four film set that gives Poitier fans a…