Also with Liam Neeson, Juliette Lewis, Sydney Pollack, Lysette Anthony, and Benno Schmidt.

NEWYORKER: Husbands and Wives

Put it all into the hands of an excellent chef, director Sydney Pollack (also an Oscar-winner for "Out of Africa").

CNN: Review: 'Random Hearts' a mature meander

The new Sydney Pollack movie is set at the United Nations: not the bear pit of recent wrangling but a barely ruffled pool of international good will.

NEWYORKER: The Interpreter

"I like playing interesting villains, " he said, calling to mind parts like that of the laconic, strangely sympathetic assassin Joubert in Sydney Pollack's "Three Days of the Condor" (1975).

WSJ: Max von Sydow | His Silence May Be Golden | Cultural Conversation by David Mermelstein

The director of "The Interpreter, " Sydney Pollack, pays his respects to several Hitchcock movies with visual cues that you'll enjoy picking up on your own, while one specific link to the Zinnemann film is forged of tubular steel.

WSJ: Beyond Words

With Tilda Swinton and Sydney Pollack.

NEWYORKER: Michael Clayton