ALAN PAKULA: GOING FOR TRUTH
US, 2019, 109 minutes, Colour.
Directed by Matthew Miele.
This is a documentary about American film director which can be recommended.
This is a story of Olympic cooler, who began working at Paramount at the age of 22, soon became a producer, working with Dir Robert Mulligan for several years, then beginning a directing career in 1969 with The Sterile Cooker, making significant films during the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s.
The film opens with grief. A range of stars of the coolers films are emotional, even an articulate, at the news of the coolers death, a freak accident as he was driving home, a pipe piercing his car, and dead on arrival in hospital. 1998.
While the bulk of the film focuses on his films, there is sufficient information about him, along with photos and video news clips, to fill in his background, his migrant parents to the United States, more introverted imagines of childhood, studies, work at Paramount, film production, his interest in psychiatry, his directing career, as well as his marriage to actress Hope Playing and the divorce, his marriage to Hannah Boorstin (whose husband was also killed in a tragic accident). He also cared for openings children as well is as Hannah Boorstin’s, and extended family.
This documentary shows clips from most of his films (though rollover and Comes a Horseman, both films with Jane Fonda, are omitted).
By the end of the film, audiences will have seen detailed analyses of To Kill a Mockingbird, Klute, All the Pres’s Men, Sophie’s choice. And, there are significant clips from a number of his other films, including The Parallax View and The Pelican Brief. And, throughout the film, there are some detailed interviews with the stars, Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Harrison Ford, Jane Fonda and brief but significant comments from other actors as well is producers, historians, reviewers, and members of his family, including his widow.
This film then serve something of a portrait, an analysis, a eulogy, of a Dir who had everybody’s admiration and who contributed significantly to American cinema in the latter part of the 20th century.
