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Judd Bernard (born Sherman Bernard Goldberg; June 20, 1927 – January 25, 2022) was an American film producer and screenwriter. Bernard died on January 25, 2022, at the age of 94. Filmography Producer. Blood Red (1989) The Class of Miss MacMichael (1978) Inside Out (1975) The Marseille Contract (1974) The Man Who Had Power Over ...
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9 de fev. de 2022 · Judd Bernard, the producer and screenwriter behind films such as “Point Blank” and “Double Trouble,” died Jan. 25 in Burbank, Calif., his family confirmed to Variety. He was 94.
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Walker works with his friend Mal Reese to rob a major crime operation, ambushing the courier on deserted Alcatraz Island. After counting the money, Reese shoots Walker, leaving him for dead. Reese takes the money and Walker's wife, Lynne. Walker recovers. With assistance from the mysterious Yost, Walker sets out to find Reese and recover his half o...
It was the second film produced by Irwin Winkler who had just made Double Trouble at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Winkler and Judd Bernard became enthusiastic about the Point Blank script and felt it would be ideal for Lee Marvin. They struggled to get the script to Marvin, so sent it to John Boorman, an emerging director he knew from his management days. ...
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The film earned $9 million during its initial release.
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In her 1967 New Yorker review of Bonnie and Clyde, Pauline Kael wrote: "A brutal new melodrama is called Point Blank, and it is." Kael later called the film "intermittently dazzling". Roger Ebert gave the film three out of four stars and said, "as suspense thrillers go, Point Blank is pretty good."Leonard Maltin gave the film three and a half stars: "Taut thriller, ignored in 1967, but now regarded as a top film of the decade." In the New York Times, Bosley Crowtherdescribed the movie as a "s...
Viewers and critics have often questioned whether or not the film is really a dream that Walker has after he is shot in the beginning. The film's director John Boorman claims to not have an opinion on the matter. "What it is, is what you see", responded Boorman. While filmmaker Steven Soderbergh has described Point Blank as "memory film" for Marvin...
Point Blank combines elements of film noir with stylistic touches of the European nouvelle vague. The film features a fractured timeline (similar to the novel's non-linear structure), disconcerting narrative rhythms (long, slow passages contrasted with sudden outbursts of violence), and a carefully calculated use of film space (stylized composition...
Point Blank is hailed in the book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die as "The perfect thriller in both form and vision." Film historian David Thomson calls the film a masterpiece. Thomson adds, "[...] this is not just a cool, violent pursuit film, it is a wistful dream and one of the great reflections on how movies are fantasies that we are rea...
Point Blank at the American Film Institute CatalogPoint Blank at IMDbPoint Blank at the TCM Movie DatabasePoint Blank at AllMovie9 de fev. de 2022 · Judd Bernard, who partnered with fellow producers Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff to bring the Lee Marvin neo-noir classic Point Blank to the big screen, has died. He was 94.
Em 2007, durante um café da manhã em sua homenagem intitulado "The Women in Entertainment" — que fez tributo às 100 Mulheres mais Poderosas do Entretenimento, do The Hollywood Reporter, a atriz confirmou que estava em um relacionamento lésbico com Bernard há muito tempo.
Judd Bernard was born on 20 June 1927 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for The Destructors (1974), Inside Out (1975) and The Class of Miss MacMichael (1978). He was married to Patricia Casey. He died on 25 January 2022 in Burbank, California, USA.
