Networks presents Sydney Pollack tributes
Three networks will pay tribute to Oscar-winning filmmaker Sydney Pollack with special screenings of his work.
Pollack, who won best director and best pictures Oscars for “Out of Africa,” died of cancer May 26 at age 73.
The network plans are:
Chiller (channel 199 on Dish Network, 257 on Direct TV) will air two episodes of “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour” that were directed by Pollack: 1962’s “The Black Curtain” (4 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. Sunday) and 1963’s “Diagnosis: Danger” (5 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. Sunday).
Oxygen (channel 127 on Dish Network, 166 on Cox Digital Cable, 251 on Direct TV) will air the 1973 film “The Way We Were” at noon Sunday. Pollack directed the romantic drama starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford.
TCM (channel 63 on Cox Cable, 132 on Dish Network, 256 on Direct TV) will devote an entire evening of programming to Pollack on Monday. The lineup includes 1965’s “The Slender Thread” (7 p.m.), which marked Pollack’s directorial debut; the 1982 award-winning comedy “Tootsie” (11 p.m.), which ranks second behind Billy Wilder’s Some Like It Hot on the American Film Institute’s list of best film comedies; and 1972’s “Jeremiah Johnson” (1 a.m.) and 1975’s “Three Days of the Condor” (9 p.m.), two of the filmmaker’s seven collaborations with star Robert Redford.
In July, TCM will present film critic and commentator Elvis Mitchell’s extensive, in-depth interview with Pollack, among the last interviews he ever gave. The interview will air July 7 as the premiere episode of the network’s new original series “TCM Presents Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence.”
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