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Re: RIP Sidney Lumet
RIP . He definitely made some classics.
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Re: RIP Sidney Lumet
Rest in peace
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Re: RIP Sidney Lumet
RIP, one of the greats.
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Before the Devil Knows You're Dead was astonishing for someone in their mid-80s to direct, and what a film to go out on. Thanks Sidney.
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:rip: So many great movies...
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Originally Posted by Sierra Disc
(Post 10717797)
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead was astonishing for someone in their mid-80s to direct, and what a film to go out on. Thanks Sidney.
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Awesome director. I bought Dog Day Afternoon on Blu just yesterday.
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Originally Posted by Dr Mabuse
(Post 10717662)
:lol:
Maybe I laid it on a little thick there. |
Re: RIP Sidney Lumet
fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck. this is what i come home to?
:rip: NETWORK will be my next blu-ray purchase. |
Re: RIP Sidney Lumet
Very sad news. One of the underappreciated greats - he didn't have the rep of a Kubrick or make as much money as Spielberg, but he made a hell of a mark in his own way.
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Originally Posted by Sierra Disc
(Post 10717797)
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead was astonishing for someone in their mid-80s to direct, and what a film to go out on. Thanks Sidney.
12 Angry Men is one of my all-time favorites, and one of the best directed films I've ever seen. |
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I'm still amazed that 12 Angry Men was his 1st directed film..what a way to start.
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:rip: SL :(
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Originally Posted by Suprmallet
(Post 10717678)
Man, I couldn't disagree with you more. I think Dog Day Afternoon is Pacino's single best performance. That film is riveting.
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:rip:
I've only seen six of his films, but they're all either very good or masterpieces. Agree with the consensus that Before the Devil Knows You're Dead was a great note to end his career. |
Re: RIP Sidney Lumet
Sigh. People this great should be exempted from death.
Network is one of those key movies that was vital to my formative movie-lover years. I've seen it at least 10 times and it's fascinating and riveting every time. I need to finally watch Dog Day Afternoon, which has always been on my personal list of those classics that you mean to watch but never get around to. I even own it on DVD. I'd also like to throw in a little shout-out to Murder on the Orient Express, which gets a lot of flack from some critics and certainly isn't on the level of some of his other work, but which is at the very least one of the best big-screen Christie adaptations and a movie I've always enjoyed.
Originally Posted by Roger Ebert
(Post 10717631)
The tears shed at his memorial services will be genuine.
Originally Posted by Suprmallet
(Post 10717530)
So many of my favorite films are from Lumet. He even directed a film with my first name as the title. He will be sorely missed.
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My favorites of his are SERPICO (1973) and PRINCE OF THE CITY (1981), two of the best films about New York City police culture ever. Then he made Q&A (1990) with a similar theme but totally wrong casting. It was a complete misfire. The first two were based on true stories and the third was based on a novel. Maybe that had something to do with it. Or maybe Lumet had less control over it. I dunno.
Brando gives a great performance for Lumet in THE FUGITIVE KIND, which I watched last September for the Criterion Challenge. |
Re: RIP Sidney Lumet
Originally Posted by Dr Mabuse
(Post 10717481)
He was one of the best directors America ever produced.
It's a shame he isn't known as such. Instead, other mediocre directors who make crowd-pleasing 'blockbusters' get mentioned as such. The generation of remakes, part 2's in movies and samples in rap and no guitar gods in rock. Creativity ended in the early 90's. |
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:lol:
Just because you don't know where to find creativity doesn't mean none exists. I can't see Sweden from my window, therefore, Sweden does not exist! |
Re: RIP Sidney Lumet
Originally Posted by TimeandTide
(Post 10717657)
Enjoyed immensely 12 Angry Men and Fail Safe.
Didn't care for the rest of his work. (Including Dog Day, which is massively over-hyped, IMO.) :shrug: |
Re: RIP Sidney Lumet
I just watched Before The Devil Knows Your Dead the other night. At a previous job I had a co-worker to got to listen to a Q&A about the film and they described Lumet's directing style. Very interesting to hear.
I think I will pop in 12 Angry Men tonight. RIP. |
Re: RIP Sidney Lumet
Originally Posted by wm lopez
(Post 10718671)
You would have to have seen DOG DAY AFTERNOON before the year 2000 to know this is a great film. Today with just about everything being reality t.v. young views are not impressed this movie. I remember I let a 20yr. co-worker who was a Pacino fan because of SCARFACE and THE GODFATHER watch my dvd of DOG DAY AFTERNOON. He didn't like at all.
DDA isn't either of those two things. Pacino isn't a cool character in the sense of visualizing your main character. His DDA character is soooo opposite of MC and TM....that he might seem kind of pahetic compared to their view of Pacino via Scarface and The Godfather films. |
Re: RIP Sidney Lumet
Originally Posted by Suprmallet
(Post 10717530)
So many of my favorite films are from Lumet. He even directed a film with my first name as the title.
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That's my grandfather's name, actually.
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I just went through my DVDs & Blu-rays and I own 25 films that he directed...I did not know I had that many.
Just watched 12 Angry Men again and will now watch The Pawnbroker in memory of Mr Lumet. |
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