The Big Sick
Finds that laughter-through-tears sweet spot, often in the unlikeliest of places.
Irving Ravetch
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The Reivers (1969)
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Produced by
Roger Ebert -
Hombre (1967)
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Screenplay by
Roger Ebert
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Martin Ritt focused on social issues
He was a large, genial, thoughtful man who was not quite your picture of a big-time Hollywood director. For one thing, he wore a jump suit everywhere he went. He had a closet full of them, in different colors and fabrics, and there was even a black-and-white "formal" jump suit that he wore with a bow tie to the Academy Awards. He said he didn't like to waste time every morning deciding what to wear for the rest of the day. He had better things to think about.
Oscar Noms: Kramer & All That Jazz
“Kramer vs. Kramer,” the drama of a child custody fight, won nine Academy Award nominations on Monday – and so, in a surprise, did "All That Jazz," about a Broadway director’s self-destruction.
