Rest in Peace Sidney Lumet

No Way!     I just watched Prince of the City and Fail Safe in the last month.....

R.I.P. Sir, you were a class onto your own in this industry.   

Never to be replaced.

Not a lot of love for Sidney I guess.   Look into the man's resume, on stage and screen he was as high on the talent scale as you could get, perhaps his name isn't as well known as I thought but he truly deserves respect.

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Originally Posted by Kevin M 

Not a lot of love for Sidney I guess.   Look into the man's resume, on stage and screen he was as high on the talent scale as you could get, perhaps his name isn't as well known as I thought but he truly deserves respect.

 

 

 

Like a lot of people on a nice spring Saturday, I've been out of the house all day and just heard the bad news.  He was a very fine director with some great films in his resume.  May he R.I.P.

Crawdaddy

RIP

Another great gone.

Love me a bit of "Serpico", "Dog Day" and "12 Angry Men".

But let's not forget his British films either..."The Hill" and "The Offence" are two of the best Sean Connery films, with two of his best performances. Along with two superb Ian Bannen turns too.

If you've only seen suave Connery...You have to check out Lumet's New York grit moved to England "The Offence", that gives Connery a very different screen persona indeed.
It's the cinematic equivalent of having your face rubbed into a blood caked broken bottle at a filthy murder scene...and you can see why it failed at the box office but still survives today.
And Lumet captures that flawed 'New Town' look of 70's Britain as good as any native.


RIP

Another sad day for the film world.  The part that makes me more sad is that there is no heir apparent.  While there are plenty of great young filmmakers, there is nobody else making films like Network, 12 Angry Men, The Verdict, etc..., etc....

Lumet also appears to be one of the last of his generation.  Off-hand, I cannot think of another filmmaker from his generation that is still around.....let alone one that worked right up to the end.  "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" was extremely underrated.

Rest in Peace Mr. Lumet.  Your work has already stood the test of time and will continue to do so.

I was really saddened to hear this. The man directed Network, one of my favorite films of all-time. He was very much a believer in substance over flash (a lesson current directors could learn), and had a great reverence for actors, which IMO made his greatest strength his ability to work with them. I'll definitely look out for more of his films.