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	Alan J. Pakula - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		Alan Jay Pakula (7 April, 1928- 19 November, 1998) was an American film producer, writer and director noted for his contributions to the conspiracy thriller genre.
		Pakula was born in New York and educated at Yale, where he majored in drama.
		In 1971, Pakula released the first installment of what would informally come to be known as his "paranoia trilogy".
	www.music.us /education/A/Alan-J.-Pakula.htm

	Alan J. Pakula - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alan Jay Pakula (April 7, 1928- November 19, 1998) was an American film producer, writer and director noted for his contributions to the conspiracy thriller genre.
		Pakula was born in New York to Polish Jewish parents and was educated at Yale University, where he majored in drama.
		In 1971, Pakula released the first installment of what would informally come to be known as his "paranoia trilogy".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alan_J._Pakula (426 words)

	IGN: Alan J. Pakula
		Alan J. Pakula was killed in a freak auto accident on November 19, 1998 when a metal pipe flew threw his windshield on the Long Island Expressway.
		According to his obituary, Pakula was a Yale drama graduate and, after graduation, "he worked briefly in the cartoon department at Warner Brothers before moving on to produce films." The son of Polish immigrants, Pakula convinced his father, a printer, to underwrite his first movie, 1957's Fear Strikes Out.
		Pakula was one of the best directors of the 1970s, Hollywood's oft-touted second "Golden Age." His films captured the dark, paranoid mood of America in the post-Vietnam, Watergate-era.
	filmforce.ign.com /articles/370/370521p1.html (426 words)

	Alan J. Pakula
		Though not as distinguished as their first films, Pakula and Mulligan's subsequent collaborations continued to delve into socially conscious subjects, including an ex-convict's struggles with freedom in Baby the Rain Must Fall (1964), and the trials of public school students and teachers in Up the Down Staircase (1967).
		Born and raised in New York, Pakula dabbled in high school theater, but he didn't consider a show business career until he took a summer job at Leland Hayward's talent agency.
		Pakula's marriage to Hope Lange ended in divorce; he was survived by his writer widow, Hannah Pakula, and several stepchildren.
	www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P105408 (426 words)

	ALAN J. PAKULA, FILM DIRECTOR
		ALAN J. Alan J. Pakula, who received three Academy Award nominations in the course of a 40-year career as a motion picture producer, director, and writer, died last Thursday following an accident on the Long Island Expressway.
		Pakula lectured on film at Harvard and Yale and at the American Film Institute, and served as president of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival.
		Pakula was born in the Bronx in 1928; his father was the co-owner of a printing business.
	archive.easthamptonstar.com /ehquery/981126/news5.htm (426 words)

	Biography for Alan J. Pakula
		Alan graduated from Yale and was expected to take over the business, but he convinced his Dad into underwriting a movie.
		The film established Pakula's quietly probing visual style as well as his sure hand with actors, and also marked the first of what critics would later call his "paranoia trilogy." The second-after Love and Pain (and the Whole Damn Thing (1972)-was the chilling The Parallax View (1974), with reporter Warren Beatty investigating a senator's assassination.
		Alan was the son of a Polish immigrant who ran a printing business.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0001587/bio (426 words)

	CNN - Acclaimed director Alan Pakula killed in car accident - November 20, 1998
		NEW YORK (CNN) -- Alan Pakula, a producer and director known for bringing stories of the human heart and suspense to the screen through movies like "Sophie's Choice" and "All the President's Men," died in a car accident on Long Island Thursday.
		Pakula, 70, was driving on a suburban highway when a metal bar crashed through the windshield and struck his head, Suffolk County police said.
		Pakula is survived by his wife, Hannah, and three stepchildren.
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/Movies/9811/20/pakula.obit.cnn (426 words)

	Internet Obituary Network: Alan Pakula
		The critically acclaimed producer and director Alan Pakula died November 19, 1998 in a freak car accident on Long Island, New York.
		Pakula was born April 7, 1928, in New York.
		Pakula also adapted screenplays for "The Pelican Brief," "Presumed Innocent," and "Sophie's Choice," which earned him an Oscar nomination for best adapted screenplay.
	obits.com /pakula.html (426 words)

	A personal tribute to film director Alan Pakula by writer John Nichols
		Alan was very interested in my book as a story of young love and loss in some way I gathered he associated with his own life.
		Alan was a warm, gentle, intelligent, amazingly hard-working and personable guy.
		Pakula first made his name in Hollywood as a producer for Paramount in 1956 with the film Fear Strikes Out, directed by Robert Mulligan.
	www.wsws.org /arts/1998/dec1998/pak-d16.shtml (426 words)

	Director Alan Pakula Dead - Nov 19, 1998 - E! Online News
		Nov 19, 1998, 3:45 PM PT Filmmaker Alan Pakula, whose résumé was chock-full of celluloid classics like To Kill a Mockingbird and All the President's Men, was killed Thursday morning in a freak car accident.
		Pakula lost control of his 1995 Volvo, spun off the road and plowed into a fence.
		While his films frequently cleaned up at the Oscars, Pakula was nominated for three Academy Awards--one for producing (To Kill a Mockingbird), one for directing (All the President's Men) and one for writing (Sophie's Choice)--but never won.
	www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,3935,00.html (426 words)

	Talk Cinema
		And for that, Pakula, the son of Jewish immigrants, was too subtle to be publicly sentimental but it was all there in his work: he was at the end, I think, thankful for the American experiment.
		Janet Maslin, writing in The New York Times this week had it right: it was the kind of freak accident Pakula would've regarded as too unsubtle in his films, as too off the point of character struggling not to break under the weight of evil.
		It was only last Friday (Nov. 20), and Pakula was driving along the Long Island Expressway to his north shore home.
	www.talkcinema.com /reviews/pakula.html (426 words)

	Streep, Meryl -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Pakula, Alan J. American motion-picture director, producer, and screenwriter (b.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9106398 (426 words)

	Alan Pakula
		Alan Pakula was born on April 7, 1928 in New York.
		Pakula died in a car accident on November 19, 1998 on the Long Island Expressway.
		To Kill a Mockingbird was the second movie he produced.
	www.chebucto.ns.ca /culture/mockingbird/pakula.html (426 words)

	Alan Pakula
		Alan J. Pakula - Alan J. Pakula director, producer Born: 4/7/1928 Birthplace: New York City Thrice nominated for an...
		Alan J. Pakula: Seeking Truth on the Big Screen By Robert Redford.(Brief Article)(Obituary) (Newsweek)
		Matthew Wright's column: Alan J Pakula dies aged 70.(Features) (The Mirror (London, England))
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0770231.html (426 words)

	Michael Small/Alan Pakula
		Pakula's films were best when they were scored by Michael Small.
	www.filmtracks.com /comments/titles/presumed_innocent/index.cgi?read=3 (426 words)

	The Bronx on the Web: Famous Bronxites
		Pakula, Alan: born in The Bronx in 1928, a descendant of Polish Jews, he was a movie buff from an early age and loved to read Variety.
		His family moved from The Bronx to live in Long Beach, Long Island for ten years and then in Manhattan.
	www.nypl.org /branch/bronx/index2.cfm?Trg=1&d1=1386 (426 words)

	PHONE-SOFT INTERNET DIRECTORY INTERNATIONAL:ALAN J. PAKULA
		IMDb: Alan J. Pakula - includes a complete filmography for the producer/director who helped create such films as Klute, The Parallax View, and To Kill a Mockingbird.
		Personal Tribute to Film Director Alan Pakula, A - John Nichols remembers working with Pakula during the mid 1960s.
		Find A Grave: Alan Pakula - includes a photo of the headstone and a brief description of the accident that took his life.
	www.phone-soft.org /layout-3/cyber-world/o8090i.htm (426 words)

	The Parallax View - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Parallax View is a 1974 movie directed by Alan J. Pakula and starring Warren Beatty (who was also a producer), adapted from the novel by Loren Singer.
		The movie can be seen as part of a trilogy of paranoid political thrillers directed by Pakula, along with Klute (1971) and All the President's Men (1976).
		The movie is a dark, paranoid, political thriller about a reporter's investigation into an obscure and murderous organization, the Parallax Corporation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Parallax_View (633 words)

	Biography for Alan J. Pakula
		The film established Pakula's quietly probing visual style as well as his sure hand with actors, and also marked the first of what critics would later call his "paranoia trilogy." The second-after Love and Pain (and the Whole Damn Thing (1972)-was the chilling The Parallax View (1974), with reporter Warren Beatty investigating a senator's assassination.
		Alan graduated from Yale and was expected to take over the business, but he convinced his Dad into underwriting a movie.
		These all dealt with modern social problems and complex interpersonal relationships, themes evident in Pakula's debut film as a director, The Sterile Cuckoo (1969), which starred Liza Minnelli as an odd college girl coping with her first love.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0001587/bio (583 words)

	IGN: Featured Filmmaker: Alan J. Pakula
		Alan J. Pakula was killed in a freak auto accident on November 19, 1998 when a metal pipe flew threw his windshield on the Long Island Expressway.
		Pakula was one of the best directors of the 1970s, Hollywood's oft-touted second "Golden Age." His films captured the dark, paranoid mood of America in the post-Vietnam, Watergate-era.
		According to his obituary, Pakula was a Yale drama graduate and, after graduation, "he worked briefly in the cartoon department at Warner Brothers before moving on to produce films." The son of Polish immigrants, Pakula convinced his father, a printer, to underwrite his first movie, 1957's Fear Strikes Out.
	filmforce.ign.com /articles/370/370521p1.html (1760 words)

	ALAN J. PAKULA, FILM DIRECTOR
		ALAN J. Alan J. Pakula, who received three Academy Award nominations in the course of a 40-year career as a motion picture producer, director, and writer, died last Thursday following an accident on the Long Island Expressway.
		Pakula lectured on film at Harvard and Yale and at the American Film Institute, and served as president of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival.
		Pakula was born in the Bronx in 1928; his father was the co-owner of a printing business.
	archive.easthamptonstar.com /ehquery/981126/news5.htm (862 words)

	Alan J. Pakula
		Sidney J. Furie gives the best analysis of this film in The Circle (The Fraternity), Pakula having been obliged to rethink All the President& Men in the light of subsequent events.
		Pakula’s ultimate image is of the squeamishness felt by a Tulane law student faced with Cocteau’s Angel of Inspiration.
		The style depends on plausible realism, and Pakula’s interiors are so good that his few exteriors are a comfortable fit.
	cmulrooney.tripod.com /pakula.html (495 words)

	TheHamptons.com: Hamptons Film Festival
		Alan J. Pakula chooses his projects with great care, and oversees every aspect of the filmmaking process.
		In a cinematic climate where morality is often discarded in favor of what will sell, Alan J. Pakula's films have always been about compassion in the face of human frailty, and commercialism has not been his concern.
		Pakula as a consummate visual artist, a filmmaker who has an unerring sense of how to tell complicated, emotionally resonant stories throughout the images he creates.
	thehamptons.com /film/festival96/tribute_presentation.html (362 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - Alan J. Pakula: His Films And His Life
		Pakula's death was the result of a freak accident: A metal pipe that fell from a truck was struck by his car on the Long Island Expressway, killing him instantly.
		Pakula was born in the Bronx, the son of a printer.
		Pakula's early intensive years in development paid off with the sheer exposure to material and the rigors of transforming a piece of written material into a moving picture.
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117928383?categoryid=1010&cs=1&nid=2582 (1195 words)

	KLUTE - DVD
		Pakula, sensing that despite her sketchy conception she's the most interesting character in the piece, apparently set out to visually demonstrate her plight, and deftly sketches the disappointment and frustration of his blocked and unhappy heroine.
		And Pakula's predilection for wide master shots--accompanied by the cold grip of DP Gordon Willis' neutral, steely palette--helps you feel the claustrophobic tension as her options dwindle and her environment itself seems alive with danger.
		A better title would be "Bree," because it's her movie all the way--and not only because Jane Fonda walks all over the Milquetoast Donald Sutherland in the acting department.
	filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/klute.htm (802 words)

	Pakula, Alan J. -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Heeger, Alan J. American chemist who, with Alan G. MacDiarmid and Shirakawa Hideki, won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2000 for their discovery that certain plastics can be chemically modified to conduct electricity almost as readily as metals.
		U.S. ethnomusicologist, folklorist, and scholar Alan Lomax was known for the groundbreaking work he did in studying and categorizing the music of African Americans in the Deep South.
		As the author of the novel ‘Cry, the Beloved Country', Alan Paton brought the tragedy of the racial situation in South Africa to the attention of the world.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9124013 (653 words)

	IGN: Alan J. Pakula
		Featured Filmmaker: Alan J. Pakula - September 16, 2002
		A tribute to the late director of All the President's Men, Presumed Innocent, and The Devil's Own.
	filmforce.ign.com /objects/046/046333.html (653 words)

	Alan J. Pakula
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	www.rottentomatoes.com /p/AlanJPakula-1042721 (653 words)

	LOVEFiLM Europe's No.1 online DVD rental service
		A political-romantic thriller by Alan J. Pakula and replete with favorite themes of large-scale conspiracy and paranoia, ROLLOVER is perfectly in tune with the director's previous work, although this time set in the world of international high finance.
		Alan J. Pakula (KLUTE, THE PARALLAX VIEW) found a story worthy of his gift for conspiracy-driven drama in this adaptation of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's best-selling account of their investigation of the Watergate burglary, of which ultimately led to...
		Pakula and Frank Pierson faced a difficult task in adapting Scott Turow's novel.
	www.lovefilm.com /director.php?dr_id=2099 (451 words)

	Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - Sophie's Choice
		Description: Alan J. Pakula's award-winning drama Sophie's Choice comes to DVD with a standard full-frame transfer that fails to preserve the original theatrical aspect ratio.
		In terms of structure, William Styron's flashback-laden novel must have been a challenge to translate to the screen, but writer-director Alan J. Pakula does a fine job of condensing the material without losing its essence.
		Pakula's script would be nominated for an Academy Award; Streep would win her first Oscar for a lead performance.
	www.bordersstores.com /search/title_detail.jsp?id=40613275&srchTerms=012236048701&mediaType=-1&srchType=ISBN (258 words)

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