Guess Who

Bernie Mac gets punk'd by Ashton Kutcher.

"...the painfully obvious to say that Kutcher is no Sidney Poitier, nor are the other players on par with..."

March 25, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Six Degrees of Separation

"...a friend of their children and the son of Sidney Poitier. Ouisa and Flan are charmed by his social..."

Jan. 28, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Jackal

"...Directed by: Michael Caton-Jones. Starring: Richard Gere, Bruce Willis, Sidney Poitier and Diane Venora. About the best that can..."

Nov. 14, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Paramount Announces Summer Classic Film Series Lineup

See the whole schedule and get some tickets to escape the heat

"...(1967, 110min/color, DCP) Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, and Lee Grant. Directed..."

May 16, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

NO WAY OUT

"...NO WAY OUT D: Joseph Mankiewicz (1950); with Sidney Poitier, Linda Darnell, Richard Widmark, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee...."

Jan. 21, 2000 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

Turn Every Page – The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb

The 50-year relationship between a legendary writer and his editor

"...Toni Morrison, John Cheever, John Updike, John Le Carré, Sidney Poitier, Bill Clinton (appearing fleetingly in an on-camera, apparently..."

Jan. 27, 2023 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Nationtime

Searing documentary from the 1972 National Black Political Convention finally restored

"...you get. Greaves eschews editorializing on the action, with Sidney Poitier’s unobtrusive narration primarily bridging time and summarizing highlights..."

Nov. 27, 2020 Movie Review by Steve Davis

I Am Not Your Negro

A stunning doc on the civil rights era

"...figures as John Wayne, Doris Day, Harry Belafonte, and Sidney Poitier, among others. Peck also employs a great deal..."

Feb. 3, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Scanlines

"...(l-r) River Phoenix, Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd and Sidney Poitier turn to a computer for help in finding..."

Sept. 5, 1997 Screens Feature

The Defiant Ones

"...Directed by: Stanley Kramer. Starring: Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier. Nearly a decade before the supper-table racial detente..."

Aug. 5, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

To Sir, With Love

"...Directed by: James Clavell. Starring: Sidney Poitier, Judy Geeson, Christian Roberts, Suzy Kendall and Michael..."

July 13, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sneakers

"...Directed by: Phil Alden Robinson. Starring: Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, Dan Aykroyd, David Strathairn, River Phoenix, Ben Kingsley,..."

Sept. 11, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Chronicle Recommends: Back to School

Seven of the best movies about edumacation

"...Sidney Poitier was a bona fide movie star by the..."

Sept. 11, 2018 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff

Chronicle Recommends: Academy Award Winning Films & Performances

Treat yourself to the award-winners of years past

"...of race, family, and modern mores in 1967 America. Sidney Poitier and Hepburn’s niece Katharine Houghton are the engaged..."

Nov. 4, 2016 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff

Vulcan (Video) Mind Meld

Staking out the store’s new North Loop location

"...Vietnam. At the time, I loved the teaming of Sidney Poitier and Tom Berenger in Shoot to Kill (1988),..."

May 30, 2014 Screens Post by Raoul Hernandez

Texas Beats Iowa State in Kabongo's Return

Horns prevail 89-86 in double OT thriller

"...games of the season on the bench dressed like Sidney Poitier in "To Sir With Love" because he was..."

Feb. 13, 2013 Sports Post by Michael Corcoran

Nothing Could Be Finah: Texas Trounces Tarheels

Horns withstand North Carolina flurry to win by 18

"...by NCAA-investigated point guard Myck Kabongo, who looked like Sidney Poitier from “To Sir With Love” in his suit..."

Dec. 19, 2012 Sports Post by Michael Corcoran

DVD Watch

'Kati With an i' is a transfixing documentary portrait

"...directing debut of Sydney Pollack features Academy Award winners Sidney Poitier as a volunteer at a suicide-prevention hotline and..."

Oct. 16, 2012 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

National Film Registry Welcomes 'El Mariachi'

Rodriguez's debut joins Bambi, Hannibal Lecter, and Forrest Gump

"...of the Worlds, Otto Preminger's Porgy and Bess with Sidney Poitier and Dorothy Dandridge, Fritz Lang's classic film noir..."

Dec. 28, 2011 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings

James Baldwin, the oracular writer and spectacular wordsmith of mid-20th century America, is revivified in this new collection

"...writings about the responsibilities of the artist. Profiles of Sidney Poitier and the Floyd Patterson vs. Sonny Liston heavyweight..."

Aug. 20, 2010 Books Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Milk and King Get Top Bling

Obama names LGBT trailblazers among list of "agents of change" receiving Medal of Freedom.

"...and Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Meanwhile, actor Sidney Poitier and performer Chita Rivera represent the arts community...."

July 30, 2009 Qmmunity Post by Richard Whittaker

Barbara Smith Conrad

A week of celebration for the great mezzo where her career was launched against all odds

"...names. National news outlets picked up the story, bringing Sidney Poitier and Eleanor Roosevelt, among others, to voice support..."

Jan. 30, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Letters @ 3AM

Globalization isn't only something that's happening to our economy: Globalization is happening to us – to our bodies, our families, and our psyches

"...movies and on TV, who, with rare exceptions like Sidney Poitier and Anthony Quinn, almost all looked WASP. Jews..."

April 25, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura

Jazzin' Up Catfish Row

After 70 years, Zach creates a Porgy and Bess for Austin

"...key recordings of reinterpretations and the release of the Sidney Poitier film. In the 1970s, after decades of stubbornly..."

Jan. 25, 2008 Arts Feature by Graham Reynolds

'Porgy and Bess': A Select Chronology

The history of Gershwin's opera, from its conception in 1926 to its reinvention in Austin in 2008

"...1959: Otto Preminger directs a truncated film version starring Sidney Poitier, who later regrets taking the role...."

Jan. 25, 2008 Arts Feature by Graham Reynolds

Ace in the Hole

"...Award nomination along with writer/director Joseph L. Mankiewicz for Sidney Poitier's baby-faced 1950 film debut as a black doctor..."

July 20, 2007 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

The Complete Motown Singles Volume 4: 1964

In Box

"...Prize for Peace, Cassius Clay whupping Sonny Liston, and Sidney Poitier winning Best Actor for The Lilies of the..."

March 31, 2006 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Once Upon a Time in Austin

The films, the filmmakers, the crews, the making of a scene

"...1998); Leonard Bernstein: Reaching for the Note (TV, 1999); Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light (TV, 2000); Clint Eastwood: Out..."

March 12, 2004 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Standing by Stanley

It's a mad, mad, mad, mad interview with actor Karen Sharpe Kramer, the widow of the iconoclastic director.

"...he a postman?'" The critics' largest beef was that Sidney Poitier's character was too good-looking and acceptable to be..."

Nov. 21, 2003 Screens Feature by Courtney Fitzgerald

Letters @ 3AM

Fifty years ago, almost all movies were made for adults, yet children went to see them on their own or with others, and in the process, learned the mysteries of our cultural ideology.

"...the City (the complex friendship between John Cassavetes and Sidney Poitier turned my young head around about race). Eleven,..."

Aug. 22, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

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