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Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence

2008

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EP1 Sydney Pollack Jul 07, 2008

Sydney Pollack considers how movies can combine historical perspective and character drama in this out-take from TCM's Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence.

EP2 Bill Murray Jul 14, 2008

Actor Bill Murray on working with other actors when you're not on camera, and speculating about Cary Grant, from TCM's Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence

EP3 Laurence Fishburne Jul 21, 2008

In each half-hour episode of this series, Mitchell invites special celebrity guests to sit down and talk about how classic film has influenced their lives. In the interview with Lawrence Fishburne, the actor discusses working with director Francis Ford Coppola and his observations on actor Clark Gable.

EP4 Quentin Tarantino Jul 28, 2008

In each half-hour episode of this series, Mitchell invites special celebrity guests to sit down and talk about how classic film has influenced their lives. In the interview with Quentin Tarantino, the director discusses his interest in low-budget exploitation films and why he sometimes shows Howard Hawks' His Girl Friday to his actors.

EP5 Edward Norton Nov 07, 2008

Actor Edward Norton compares directors Spike Lee and Sidney Lumet in this excerpt from TCM's Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence,

EP6 Joan Allen Nov 14, 2008

In each half-hour episode of this series, Mitchell invites special celebrity guests to sit down and talk about how classic film has influenced their lives. In the interview with Joan Allen, the actress discusses the adjustment she had to make going from theatre to film and her appreciation of genre films, citing Carrie with Sissy Spacek as one example.

EP7 John Leguizamo Nov 21, 2008

John Leguizamo talks about Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro and his experience working with them on Righteous Kill, 2008.

EP8 Richard Gere Nov 21, 2008

Host Elvis Mitchell sits down with actor Richard Gere. They talk about two primary influences to the way the Gere acts: music and gymnastics. Gere talks about blues music in particular, and the natural rhythms in that style which he uses in the rhythms of his performances. He believes that all actors have an inherent musicality within them upon which to frame a performance. He also discusses what he believes are movies that have that blues rhythm in its pacing and storytelling. He equates rhythm with physical space and framing in movie making, with an actor going in and out of that frame set for him. He concludes with talking about what drew him to certain actors from the golden age of movies. With the women, it was who he considered the great beauties. With the men, it was the ability to be within the moment without looking like they were acting.
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Synopsis

Renowned film critic and television/radio personality Elvis Mitchell interviews various actors and directors to find out what has influenced them and the films they made.

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Lawbolisted Powerful
Rpgcatech Disapointment
Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.
Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
Michael_Elliott Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence (Sydney Pollack) (2008) *** (out of 4) Film critic Elvis Mitchell sits down with Sydney Pollack to discuss the influences on him as a director and an actor. As to be expecting considering when he grew up, Pollack names Marlon Brando and James Dean as his influential actors. An American in Paris actually gets mentioned as his most influential movie and the one he remembers watching the most. This thirty-minute interview is pretty entertaining, although I was hoping Pollack would go into more details and discussion on the films he liked watching when he was younger. There's a lot of talk about filmmakers of the 1960's and how they were influenced by the French, Italian and Spanish directors of the era. Pollack also goes into detail about some of his own films including The Way We Were and offers up a nice story on how Dustin Hoffman talked him into acting in Tootsie.