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| Robert
Mulligan |
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| Director
/ Producer |
| 1925 - 2008 |
| Born August 23, The
Bronx, New York, New York, USA |
| Key Genres:
Drama, Comedy, Horror TSPDT Rating:
6 |
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Collaborators: Alan
J. Pakula (Producer), Robert Surtees (Cinematographer), Aaron Stell
(Editor), Natalie Wood (Leading Player), Folmar Blangsted (Editor),
Elmer Bernstein (Composer), Albert Brenner (Production Designer), Henry
Bumstead (Production Designer), Lou Frizzell (Character Player) |
| Recommended: To
Kill a Mockingbird (1962) |
| Worth
a Look: Love
with the Proper Stranger (1963), The Other (1972) |
| Links: [
IMDB ] [ All-Movie
Guide ] [
Film Reference ]
[ Film Journal Feature: Introduction
/ American
Directors: Robert Mulligan /
Consciousness
and Racial Conscience in the Work of Robert Mulligan ] |
| DVD's:
[ Amazon
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| 1,000
Greatest Films: To Kill a
Mockingbird (1962) |
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"Unfortunately, despite the high quality of Robert Mulligan's
films, there has been not even a minor re-evaluation of the
director as a significant artist who has a consistency of themes
(such as his association of puberty and violence) - this neglect
despite the fact that To Kill a Mockingbird remains one
of the most well-respected and emotionally engaging films in the
American cinema...Ultimately, Mulligan's taste may be too fine
and his feelings too sentimental to attract contemporary regard
in a culture which thrives on the sexy, profane conflicts of a
Pulp Fiction. " -
Charles Derry (The St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia, 1998)
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"There is
something wrong with a thirty-five-year career of twenty movies
that is still indistinct and tentative...Just as he lacks
artistic character, so his films do not live in the memory.
Professional compromise seems always to round off initial
promise. Although attempting to deal with anguish and
loneliness, the films are irresolute, neat, and appealing -
unwilling to probe their audience sufficiently." -
David Thomson (The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, 2002) |
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"Mulligan has
never quite become the major American director that once seemed
probable, and has been outstripped in reputation by his one-time
producer/partner, Alan J. Pakula...Many
of his most promising projects, despite good casts and obviously
thorough spadework by the director, have been less than
successful: total conviction has evaded him since his early
years in the cinema." -
David Quinlan (Quinlan's Film Directors, 1999) |
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