When Rob Reiner died at the age of 78, American movies lost not only an actor, producer, and director who was universally beloved by almost everyone in the industry and everyone who watched him (around 30-40 million people during the heyday of his hit series “All in the Family”), but one of the last practitioners of a certain kind of Hollywood filmmaking.
An unassuming craftsman who sublimated his ego to the demands of the subject matter and genre at hand, Reiner was nevertheless a deeply personal filmmaker. Like Howard Hawks, John Ford, and other masters of the classical studio era, his style was often invisible, but his modesty cloaked the intense engagement of a true artist.
Reiner was one of those filmmakers who was weirdly both widely celebrated and a bit underrated — he made what he did look too easy to be ranked with the greats when people who do such things were doing the ranking.
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