RIP: Paul Mazursky (BOB AND CAROL AND TED AND ALICE)

[erik]

Hollywood has lost another great one, in director (and occasionally actor) Paul Mazursky, known for directing, among other films, 1969's BOB AND CAROL AND TED AND ALICE, and 1984's MOSCOW ON THE HUDSON. He was 84. More details here:

www.newsday.com/entertainment/movies/paul-mazursky-dead-oscar-nominated-writer-director-of-an-unmarried-woman-was-84-1.8631174

[profblues]

I really liked Harry and Tonto but the rest of his stuff varied from mildly entertaining to definite channel changers. For me anyway.

[robertaxel]

Besides Harry and Tonto, I liked Blume in Love, and maybe his most underrated film, Enemies, a Love Story,

[egoodstein]

I liked those, also Moscow on the Hudson. But overall I think his films uneven.

[erik]

I think he was also one of those miscreants in the 1955 classic THE BLACKBOARD JUNGLE, along with Sidney Poitier and Vic Morrow, if I'm not mistaken.

[robertaxel]

Jul 3, 2014 23:50:54 GMT -5 egoodstein said:

I liked those, also Moscow on the Hudson. But overall I think his films uneven.

I will take someone who strives for something special and misses over bland predictability any day..