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  Gregory Hoblit - Biography - Moviefone
Born in Texas in 1944, Gregory Hoblit's father was a law enforcement officer whose career took his family to California when Gregory was a child.
Hoblit attended college in California, doing his undergraduate work at the University of California, Berkeley and U.C.L.A., and returning to U.C.L.A. to receive his graduate degree in Film and Television.
Hoblit went on to direct a number of episodes of Hill Street Blues, and in 1986, when Bochco helped create the series L.A. Law, Hoblit was tapped to direct the two-hour pilot film for the show, as well as a number of subsequent episodes.
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  Movie Search at Tribute.ca
Born in Texas, Hoblit spent most of his childhood in Berkley, California where he completed his undergraduate studies at the local university.
Hoblit followed that up with Fallen (1998) and Frequency (2000), but neither faired as well with critics and box office numbers as Primal Fear.
Hoblit is married to television actress, Debrah Farentino.
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 Gregory Hoblit Biography at Hollywood.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Hoblit and Bochco's follow-up series, "Bay City Blues", which followed the lives of minor league baseball players was pulled after only four episodes aired, although it had its champions.
Hoblit directed the two-hour pilot and numerous episodes, setting the tone of the show, which offered a fluid camera style and characters who spoke to each other in a lower-key, less wooden, more conversational, albeit sometimes volatile, fashion.
Not abandoning the supernatural, Hoblit directed "Frequency" (2000), a drama wherein a modern homicide detective discovers a time warp that allows him to communicate with his firefighter father who died in 1969.
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 Gregory Hoblit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gregory Hoblit (born November 27, 1944 in Abilene, Texas), is a Hollywood film director.
Hoblit has also directed television episodes of NYPD Blue, Cop Rock, Hooperman, L.A. Law, and Hill Street Blues, as well as a made-for-TV-movie on Roe v.
This article about a film director is a stub.
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 SPLICEDwire | "Hart's War" review (2002) Gregory Hoblit, Bruce Willis, Colin Farrell
Director Gregory Hoblit ("Frequency," "Primal Fear") proves himself a good cook, seamlessly blending these ingredients into a fresh and appetizing dramatic stew.
Hoblit doesn't show much of the questioning itself, other than Hart answering every question with his name, rank and serial number in the early going.
But later he summons Hart to his office, reveals himself to be a fellow Yale alumni, expresses sincere sympathy and provides the junior officer with a pilfered copy of a United States military court martial manual to aid in his uphill battle as a novice attorney.
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 FREQUENCY - Production Notes...CinemaReview.com....Movie Reviews, Movie Contents, Moviegoer Opinions and Much More!
With Frequency, Gregory Hoblit dips into cutting-edge science fiction to produce a deeply moving and exciting thriller about a father and son who use the paradoxes of time to chase a killer and come closer to one another.
Hoblit came to see Frequency's lead character John Sullivan as a kind of Alice in Wonderland, a man who has dropped through the looking glass into a world in which the past is as malleable as the future.
Hoblit was impressed by Emmerich's well-researched scenario which seemed to carefully avoid the usual logical pitfalls of time-travel paradoxes.
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 Gregory Hoblit
With a vast and influential body of work, Hoblit has not only won the respect of America's viewing audience but has amassed critical acclaim and numerous awards for his work as well.
Born in Abilene, Texas and raised in Berkeley, California, Hoblit completed his undergraduate studies at the University of California at Berkeley and UCLA, and studied film and television in graduate school at UCLA.
Hoblit then went to work as an associate producer on the six-hour miniseries Loose Change and a two-hour pilot, Dr.
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 Hart's War (2002)
Director Gregory Hoblit's strength is in his attention to detail — his shots are composed with a skilled hand, and his costumes and interiors are filled with rustic and bitter realism (at least to this untrained eye).
Hoblit's weakness, or, rather, the weakness of the script, is the clumsy and deliberate attempt to make a number of important statements about varying social problems without focusing on any particular point.
Included are some of the scenes that they lament in the commentary, including one in which the soldiers, in giddy flface, put on a show for the Nazis, who chuckle merrily along with their American counterparts.
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 Frequency . Austin Chronicle . 05-01-00
Other times, vexing questions and inconsistencies are left hanging, creating a sneaking suspicion that at some point Hoblit and screenwriter Toby Emmerich basically just gave up and decided to throw themselves at the mercy of their audience's ability to suspend disbelief.
Hoblit (Fallen) shows real artistry in charging key scenes with a sense of enchantment and tactile richness.
And as corny and stilted as Emmerich's dialogue is throughout, he at least has a sense of fun and a flair for clever conceptual humor drawing on the possibilities of time travel (one especially good laugh awaits you stock-trading junkies out there).
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 Lycos Movies - Biography - Gregory Hoblit
A much celebrated producer-director of perennial Emmy-winning series, usually in tandem with Steven Bochco, Gregory Hoblit got his start in local TV in Chicago, where he worked as an associate producer and producer on live and taped programming.
The resulting series about life in and around a gritty urban police station, with constant activity and a very alive camera, was slow to find an audience but went on to create TV history, earning multiple Emmy nominations over its six year run.
In addition to his producing duties, Hoblit continued to his directing career, helming the pilot of "L.A. Law" (NBC, 1986) and the premiere episode of "Hooperman" (ABC, 1987).
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 Salon.com ent | What's the "Frequency," Gregory?
The stealth box-office winner last week was Gregory Hoblit's "Frequency," a skillful fantasy-thriller-tearjerker about a melancholy 36-year-old cop (Jim Caviezel) who dusts off a ham radio set that was the joy of his late fireman father (Dennis Quaid) and finds himself talking to his dad.
Hoblit and his screenwiter, Toby Emmerich, survey the same landscape as "Field of Dreams." But Hoblit keeps the textures edgy, and Emmerich keeps the action unpredictable, entwining sci-fi motifs about time warps and "string theory" with a race to find a serial killer and a nostalgic look at the 1969 Mets.
What I didn't realize until I spoke to Hoblit on the phone two weeks ago is that he was uniquely qualified to depict public servants on screen.
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 Gregory Hoblit battles invisible effects on Hart's War - Shooting Stars - Interview Post - Find Articles
Hart's War director Gregory Hoblit belongs to a very elite club.
You need actors to perform, or say the words or illuminate the script You need a location in which to shoot the action, the conversation or the picture that's being made, And you need all the equipment, everything that goes into to sewing it together.
HOBLIT: Where it starts to change, at least in the world of television to movies, is in scope and in size.
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 FREQUENCY/ ***1/2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Directed by Gregory Hoblit; produced by Bill Carraro, Toby Emmerich, Gregory Hoblit, Hawk Koch.
It's a common reaction of the bereaved, both in movies and life: "If I could only go back, and speak to him one last time!" Gregory Hoblit's "Frequency" is an amazingly engrossing movie because it is based around that concept -- a simple, potent notion that gives the film an unexpected level of poignancy.
"Frequency" was directed by Gregory Hoblit, whose debut "Primal Fear" I was one of the early champions of, and whose "Fallen" was extremely fascinating in parts.
www.ukcritic.com /frequency.html   (634 words)

  
 COLIN FARRELL FANSITE
Director Gregory Hoblit’s debut feature was the tricky courtroom drama PRIMAL FEAR.
Intricately plotted by scriptwriters Billy Ray and Terry George, and filmed by Hoblit with his accustomed attention to detail, HART’S WAR is a devious and absorbing courtroom/POW drama.
War is directed by Gregory Hoblit, who after a stylish feature debut with the luridly compelling Primal Fear, fumbled a pair of supernatural duds (Fallen and Frequency).
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 Frequency | Review
Having raked in over $40million at the US box office alone, the movie directed by NYPD Blue veteran Gregory Hoblit, is a clever mix of Twilight Zone style hypothesis, cross generational bonding and cracking cop thriller.
Hoblit's previous flick, Fallen, turned out to be one of the biggest letdowns of 1998.
Quaid's escape from a burning building is fresh, albeit wholly ridiculous and Hoblit does love his slow mo shots of objects falling at the same time, 30 years apart.
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 SPLICEDwire | "Frequency" review (2000)
But this alteration of history has horrible consequences: John discovers that a serial killer who murdered three nurses in '69 was never captured in the altered time line, and subsequently his mother -- an emergency room RN -- became one of the killer's additional victims.
Tightly directed by Gregory Hoblit ("Primal Fear"), "Frequency" is the kind of story that must be handled with limber precision, lest it become a ridiculous discombobulation of science fiction balderdash.
For the majority of the film, Hoblit does a deft job holding such shash at bay.
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 Hart's War - Movie Review
As the tensions mount and sides are taken, both friend and foe uncover duplicities within their own ranks, values of lives are weighed against the duties of soldiers, and the question of honor versus freedom plays out to the final whopper of an ending.
Gregory Hoblit, director of last year’s sleeper hit Frequency, delivers once again another knockout of a film.
Captured in stunning cinematography filtered with blues and grays, Hoblit paints a bleak existence of P.O.W.'s during WWII.
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 DVDivas.net
The opening act of the film, which begins with Lt. Hart's capture and interrogation, is meant to set up his future confrontation with Col. McNamara, while scenes of racial angst among the prisoners when the two African American soldiers arrive isn't quite as hard-hitting as it should be.
Director Gregory Hoblit's ("Frequency") handling of the material plays by the rules of war movies, but never merits much emotional connection to its characters or their plight.
The first track features director Gregory Hoblit, writer Billy Ray, and actor Bruce Willis talking about various aspects of production, from the location shooting in the Czech Republic, to the story, to the characters, and so on and so forth.
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 Reel Caviezel: Frequency, Jim Caviezel
Frequency, directed by Gregory Hoblit, proves that on occasion, Aurora Borealis appear over the skyline of New York City.
Gregory Hoblit earned experience in television, and then when he moved to films, he showcased Edward Norton in his “Primal Fear” breakout role.
Hoblit’s 2002 showcase for new talent can be seen when viewing Colin Farrell in “Hart’s War”.
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 Gregory Hoblit
When a fl pilot (Terrence Dashon Howard) from the famous Tuskeegee airmen is falsely accused of murdering a fellow prisoner, Farrell tries his case and discovers the real motivation behind Willis's kangaroo court.
Although it received mixed reactions from critics and audiences alike when released in 1998, this supernatural thriller benefits from a sustained atmosphere of anticipation and dread, and its combination of detective mystery and demonic mischief is handled with ample style and intelligence.
Under the direction of Gregory Hoblit (who fared better with Primal Fear), Denzel Washington plays detective John Hobbes, who witnesses the gas-chamber execution of a serial killer (Elias Koteas).
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 AboutFilm.Com - Frequency (2000)
Though it does take a bit of chat before the two men realize who they've connected with, director Gregory Hoblit (Primal Fear, Fallen) is admirably merciful about not dragging out the revelation of the obvious (a strategy he sticks to throughout the film, thank goodness!).
The action sequences aren't especially memorable, and Hoblit tends to cheat a bit to move characters around to where he wants them to be.
On occasion, the script makes direct references to other films in ways that seem unnecessarily obvious without adding anything to the whole (one character discovering a dead body in an apartment where the song Sea of Love is playing on the turntable, for instance).
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 CinemaSpeak.Com - Hart's War
If director Gregory Hoblit would have concentrated on tackling just one of these instead of all three, the film could have been quite good, instead of just mediocre.
This is all fine and dandy, but it doesn't really fit with what I believe Hoblit is trying to achieve.
Hoblit had previously directed Primal Fear, Fallen, and Frequency, and I like that he's tackling different genres.
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 rediff.com, Movies: The Rediff Review: Frequency
Hoblit often uses images that combine lyricism with intimacy.
For instance, in the scenes of John and Frank talking over the time gap, both their faces are superimposed onto the screen, enabling the observation of each reaction and emotion.
Also critical is Hoblit's ability to add a level of realism to the proceedings and his capacity to create credibility for far-fetched situations.
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 DVD.net : Hart's War - DVD Review
Hart’s War is only Gregory Hoblit’s fourth stab at directing a feature film.
This is probably the more interesting of the two commentaries (mostly due to the fact that there is more than one person talking), and Hoblit provides quite a few facts that are worthy of note.
One small problem with this commentary is that there are some prolonged periods of silence where no information is given, but this can be forgiven since it is a solo commentary.
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