Classic Hollywood: As the AFI Festival gets set to honor director Alan Pakula, stars such as Meryl Streep and Harrison Ford recall working with him.
Alan J. Pakula, who died in 1998 at the age of 70 in an auto accident, was a most unusual filmmaker. Though his peers, including Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Roman Polanski, George Lucas and William Friedkin, were as well-known as the stars of their films, Pakula stayed out of the limelight and let his films speak for themselves.
The AFI Fest in Hollywood is paying tribute to Pakula with free screenings of “Sterile Cuckoo,” “Klute” and “Sophie’s Choice” and a free screening Sunday evening of Matthew Miele’s thoughtful new documentary, “Alan Pakula: Going for Truth.” That film features insightful and often emotional interviews with Redford, Ford, Streep, Fonda and Hoffman, co-workers and family and numerous clips.
Our so-called rehearsal schedule — I think it was about three weeks that we never got off our [butts]. We just sat at the table and picked apart the text, almost like, rabbinical exegesis of texts inquiring into motivations. It was all very neck up. He was really asking a million questions. That was really unusual. I don’t think I’ve ever had that experience before or after. But then once we start shooting, that’s when we started rehearsing. He would come in early in the morning.
He loved to present a kind of documentary style to his work. He even said, “Put the camera there and let the scene show itself. You don’t have to cut to a close-up, back and forth” — the kind of thing that a documentary does. And at the same time, I think he was a hidden poet.There was a great deal of craft [in his work] as a writer, director and producer. He knew what he wanted to do when he made a movie. He wasn’t confused about it.
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