David Puttnam at Columbia Pictures: Part 2

We continue our miniseries on British film producer David Puttnam and the films he would make or acquire during his brief run as the head of Columbia Pictures, by taking a look at the first batch of 16 movies Puttnam would approve or acquire, released between September 1987 and June 1988.

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Original 1988 Theatrical One-Sheet for Spike Lee's School Daze

 

The titles discussed during this episode include:

The Big Easy (Jim McBride, August 1987)
The Big Town (Ben Bolt, September 1987)
Hope and Glory (John Boorman, October 1987)
Housekeeping (Bill Forsyth, November 1987)
The Last Emperor (Bernardo Bertolucci, November 1987)
Leonard Part 6 (Paul Weiland, December 1987)
Little Nikita (Richard Benjamin, March 1988)
Pulse (Paul Golding, March 1988)
School Daze (Spike Lee, February 1988)
Someone to Watch Over Me (Ridley Scott, October 1987)
Stars and Bars (Pat O'Connor, March 1988)
The Stranger (Adolfo Aristarian, December 1987)
A Time of Destiny (Gregory Nava, April 1988)
Vice Versa (Brian Gilbert, March 1988)
White Mischief (Michael Radford, April 1988)
Zelly and Me (Tina Rathborne, April 1988)

 

Spike Lee, Giancarlo Esposito, Larry Fishburne and the cast of School Daze

 

Original 1988 Theatrical One-Sheet for Pat O'Connor's Stars and Bars