The world lost a giant last night. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/sidney-poitier-dead-...
I would love to know what your favorite Sidney Poitier films are. "To Sir, With Love" FLOORED me as a kid (still does).
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Lilies of the Field. A beautiful and simple film.
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Shoot to Kill
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A fantastic man. Juggled activism and the spotlight so well, so focused, so coherent!
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A Patch Of Blue is one of the most heartbreaking movies I've ever seen.
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In the heat of the Night... classic protag vs antag... with brilliant performances from both Sidney and Rod... in many ways Sidney is a catalyst character, in that he brings about the change in Rod's character... Loved all his work, but this is for me his best...
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FAVORITE? I know it’s not his best… but my favorite has to be Sneakers.
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A patch of blue and deadly pursuit (that's the name it got in Aust.)
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I think In the Heat of the Night has held up the best. I really enjoyed, as a kid, To Sir With Love and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner but they feel a bit dated to me now. But he was great in everything he did. My personal favorite performance of Poitier's is in A Raisin in the Sun.
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Angela, my three favorite Sidney Poitier films are...1950's "No Way Out," 1972's "Buck and the Preacher," and 1974's "Uptown Saturday Night."
He raised the bar...he made every movie he was in better.
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He absolutely did, Jim.
And oh god, Eric, A Raisin in the Sun!!!!! One of the best plays ever written & WOW, that movie.
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A Raisin in the Sun, A Patch of Blue, To Sir with Love, The Defiant Ones, and Sneakers. I watched them with my dad so perhaps more than anything the nostalgia and the memory of how my dad held Sydney's barrier-breaking in such high regard are what makes his films resonate for me, personally.