Sidney Lumet
5 titles, 42nd with 17,343 points
Lumet is a very talented director, I just wish he had made more films. A top 20 director for me, so I think he's very underrated on the polls overall. Network is his masterpiece.
These are all the films of Lumet’s that made the top 1000 in our 2011 update of the Top Ranked 1000 Films on the Net , all polls.
1. 12 Angry Men (1957) ) #116
2. Network (1976) #138
3. Dog Day Afternoon (1975) #179
4. Serpico (1973) #837
5. Before the...Read Full Story
Synopsis When a military computer error deploys a squadron of SAC bombers to destroy Moscow, the American President (Fonda) tries to call them back. But their sophisticated fail-safe system prevents him from aborting the attack, so he must convince the Soviets not to retaliate. In desperation, the President offers to sacrifice an American city if his pilots succeed in their deadly mission over Moscow. A four-star techno-thriller that builds tension and suspense with every tick of the nuclear...Read Full Story
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Few, at this point, would dispute that the 1970s is the single greatest decade in American filmmaking after World War II. If you were to list the landmark movies that were central to the decade’s pop-cultural identity, that list would surely include the following three films: Serpico (1973), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), and Network (1976). Those three classics — made, bang bang bang, more or less right in a row — were all directed by the same man, Sidney Lumet...Read Full Story
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Oscar-winning director Sidney Lumet is dead at the age of 86.
The filmmaker, who helmed over 40 movies—including 12 Angry Men , Dog Day Afternoon and Network —passed away Saturday morning in his New York City home from lymphoma, according to the New York Times .
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Lumet, who most recently directed Before the Devil Knows You're Dead starring Philip Seymour Hoffman in 2007, received four Oscar nominations (and seven...Read Full Story
Prolific American film executive Sidney Lumet – Source: Reuters
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Sidney Lumet, an American film executive good well known for inspiring
top-notch performances from actors in a tide of classical films
including twelve Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon, Network as good as Fail-Safe,
died currently during age 86, his Hollywood bent group said.
Lumet’s genocide during his Manhattan home was reliable by Michelle
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Sean Connery, Jacqueline Bisset, Michael York, Lauren Bacall, Anthony Perkins, Martin Balsam, Richard Widmark, and Vanessa Redgrave — to convincingly pull off Christie’s deliciously over the top denouement. Lumet understood how exactly the nervous ...
He made more than three dozen films, far more than such contemporaries as Robert Mulligan, John Frankenheimer and Franklin Schaffner, who shared the same background. Indeed, he was such a frenetic worker that Paul Newman called him "the only man who could ...
One bit of Death Wish trivia known to those who've read a lot about the film's early development is that Sidney Lumet was originally looking at adapting the Brian Garfield novel that Michael Winner eventually turned into the film starring Charles Bronson. Lumet was looking at casting Jack Lemmon in the role of accountant Paul Benjamin, whose wife is killed and daughter incapacitated by a violent attack. (In the Winner film, the character's...
I suspect it's like "A Pocketful of Miracles"; it probably sounds better dubbed into French. It would lose Welles' godawful Irish accent, for one thing; though it would still have his nostril-diving close-ups.
I always go back to the first time we met. I went to his office, which was really nondescript. I thought we were going out for lunch, but he pulled out a turkey sandwich and a fruit-and-cheese plate from Starbucks. So we sat and ate. I remember ...
Somewhat underrated at the time, it's sad that it took the death of Sidney Lumet last year to cause his final film, "Before The Devil Knows You're Dead," to be re-appreciated. A seedy little Greek tragedy of a crime movie, with impeccable performances across the board, and shot like it was made by a hungry twenty-something, it deserved to stand with anything else in the Lumet canon. And perhaps because the film was overshadowed by others on...
Everyone should experience the Criterion collection and “12 Angry Men” is the perfect place to start. Synopsis: 12 Angry Men, by Sidney Lumet , may be the most radical big-screen courtroom drama in cinema history. A behind-closed-doors look at the ...
The drama is based on a teleplay by Reginald Rose produced for TV in 1954 and made famous in the 1957 film directed by Sidney Lumet. Henry Fonda stars as the sole juror – No. 8 – who, as deliberations begin, is the only one who considers that the ...
Picture a mix of Iranian realism, Italian neorealism, Bergman-esque marital drama and Sidney Lumet- style crime-and social-issue-themed vital storytelling. Then be surprised by the fresh plot that unfolds, and be rapt by its undercurrents. It begins with a ...
9:22: "I believe it was director Sidney Lumet who gave this advice to actors: Know thyself," begins presenter John Krasinski. Co-presenter Tina Fey: "I believe it was Today show fourth-hour host Kathie Lee Gifford who said, 'If drag queens love you ...
advertisement. Overview. Date of Birth: 25 June 1924, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA more. Contact: View agent and company contact info on IMDbPro. Mini Biography:
Sidney Lumet (pronounced , loo-MET; born June 25, 1924) is an Academy Award winning American film director, with over 50 films to his name, including the critically acclaimed 12 ...
Date of Birth 25 June 1924, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Height 5' 5" (1.65 m) Mini Biography. Though not as consistent as Martin Scorsese or Stanley Kubrick, Sidney Lumet is ...