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Robert Wise was involved in the creation of an astonishing number of great films over his long career. Turner Classic Movies is honoring the late director - he was easily one of the dozen or so greatest directors of all time - with an extended tribute that’s already running right now. Below is tomorrow’s lineup (all times are Pacific). Some of these films you’ve no doubt already seen; of the ones you perhaps haven’t, I’m going to recommend Somebody Up There Likes Me, which features some of the most marvelous widescreen, black-and-white cinematography ever - as well as a superb performance by Paul Newman as boxer Rocky Graziano.
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From psychological horror to taut crime dramas to (his best-known incarnation) sweeping musicals, director Robert Wise has made his mark on nearly every film genre in sight. Because of this dexterity, it’s been harder to talk about Wise as a director than about brilliant individual films. A closer look, though, reveals a unique, deeply satisfying relationship between Wise’s highly polished surfaces and the stubborn, all-too-realistic subjects he’s tackled throughout his career.
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Through his wide range of work, Robert Wise proved himself to be a highly versatile director. How else can it be explained that the same director staged horror classics like The Haunting and The Body Snatcher as well as family movies like The Sound of Music or West Side Story. For the former two, Robert Wise received Oscars for Best Director.
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Director Robert Wise, whose film versions of West Side Story and The Sound of Music are considered model screen adaptation of Broadway musicals, died yesterday at the U.C.L.A. Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 91.
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Robert Wise, the legendary film director who first brought Star Trek to the silver screen, died Wednesday of heart failure in Los Angeles. He had just celebrated his 91st birthday on Saturday.
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Leaping from genre to genre, from style to style, in a workmanlike manner, Robert Wise, who has died aged 91, became one of Hollywood's leading directors. Although he did so without much consistency or imposing any discernible personality on his films, he directed among the finest boxing dramas (The Set-Up, 1949), sci-fi movies (The Day the Earth Stood Still, 1951), and horror pictures (The Body Snatcher, 1945).
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