Peter Finch, James Mason, Votes: ", Not Rated | Can all-out war be averted? Nonetheless it is a toss up as to which party are more embarrassed, the hapless crooks or the various agencies and police who failed to co-ordinate their activities. Gene Hackman, Stars: ", Not Rated Valentine "Snakeskin" Xavier, a trouble-prone drifter trying to go straight, wanders into a small Mississippi town looking for a simple and honest life but finds himself embroiled with problem-filled women. Rosanna DeSoto, Votes: Director: | 02.02.2008 14:12 wand. Crime, Drama, Thriller. 129 min The 10 Best Sidney Lumet Movies. "Well, I'm not used to supposin'. 92 min Keenan Wynn, Votes: It has been a year since Sidney Lumet passed away on April 9, 2011. | | | Director: Ahead of his (apparently) […] | A washed up, alcoholic actress who is prone to blackouts wakes up next to a murdered man. Stars: My boss does all the supposin' - but I'll try one. Comedy, Drama. $6.54M, It is back to New York for this story of College Graduates during the 1930s from the Play of the Book. It's called revenue! Drama, Romance, An aging actress named Irina Arkidana pays summer visits to her brother Pjotr Nikolayevich Sorin and her son Konstantin on a country estate. Excellent Directors Who Never Won the Oscar, King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis, Three Plays by Tennessee Williams: Moony's Kid Don't Cry/The Last of My Solid Gold Watches/This Property Is Condemned, The Liberation of Paris (August 25, 1944), The First Command Performance of Romeo and Juliet (1597), Nosferatu vs. Father Pipecock & Sister Funk, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Making '12 Angry Men', You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. 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Beau Bridges, 150 min | | Whilst dealing with a homicide case a young assistant district attorney Aloysius "Al" Reilly (Timothy Hutton) realises that it not a straightforward justifiable shooting by NYPD cop Mike Brennan (Nick Nolte). Drama, War. | ", R 1,492 The son of a woman dying of a brain tumour tries to fulfil his mother's last wish: to meet Greta Garbo. For better or worse, James Bond is a definitive role. | John Randolph, ATTICA! 110 min | A female lawyer takes an accused wife-murderer as a client, but finds herself morally compelled to betray him one way or another. I have escaped from the emotions. Sidney Lumet | Originally published April 15, 2011. "Where have you been all your life? Drama. ", R Ingrid Bergman, ", G Emily solves the case but has to be saved during the process by one of the Jews she has befriended. Go ahead and try me. | "It is you that have killed my children. It is a thought provoking piece of artwork concerning those who are martyred for their cause. Jack Warden, Tom Guiry, Sidney Lumet Lauren Bacall, Drama. Will she give up her wealthy sponsor 'The Man' (George Sanders) for True Love with Red? Jeff Bridges, It was sad to hear that one of my favourite Directors passed on today. Andy Garcia, Stars: Director: Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does. 119 min Christopher Reeve, | Al Pacino, Stars: Director: | Gross: Dan O'Herlihy, I will always remember reading 'Fail-Safe' and then thinking that Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove was based on its premise. Peter Dinklage, Joan Greenwood, 113 min James Mason, Director: Godfrey Cambridge, I have only ever seen this film on TV although I believe that a DVD release is now available. GP Sidney Lumet was a master of cinema, best known for his technical knowledge and his skill at getting first-rate performances from his actors -- and for shooting most of his films in his beloved New York. You'd do anything for a dollar. Ali MacGraw, 1,817 | Apparently it was not one of Lumet's best films, possibly because it was set in Texas and not Manhatten. "I only know that he was my little Alan - and then the devil came. R Crime, Drama, Mystery. | Stars: Not so in 1971 when Duke suddenly finds that every move he has made has been recorded for posterity. $29.80M, Starring Al Pacino as Detective Frank Serpico who was a real New York cop that ended up giving up a lot of corrupt officers that had been on the 'take'. The film deals with the pressures that affect Johnson in the course of his job and I can remember scenes from nearly forty years ago as if I had seen them yesterday. Face in all the magazines. | It is a subtle outbreak of mayhem that appears to inconvenience rather than shock this staid establishment. Best Sidney Lumet Urban ’70s Film Since… I was initially suspicious about Shaka King ‘s Judas and the Black Messiah (Warner Bros., 2.12), a period drama about late ’60s Black Panther activist and firebrand Fred Hampton , who was murdered by the FBI in December ’69. Nick Nolte, Myrna Loy, "They're good men, we've seen to that. Raul Julia, Vanessa Redgrave, Katharine Hepburn, Paul Newman, Director: It was nobody's fault, just a glitch in the system is a common excuse today when that 'Glitch' could still mean a tragedy beyond our comprehension. Joseph L. Mankiewicz Emily, a tough NYPD cop, is sent to an orthodox Jewish community to investigate a missing person plus $720,000 in missing diamonds. In a long and illustrious career, Lumet was a classic example of ‘less is more’ in cinema. Jessica Walter, Director: In 1944, on a Miami to New York train, two paratroopers on furlough meet and fall in love with two 'kept women' who are on their way to meet their 'sugar-daddies'. | Alex's hairdresser husband Joaquin Manero (Raúl Juliá) wants to divorce her, as he has fallen in love with socialite Isabel Harding (Diane Salinger). You went from our side to their side. $3.80M, This political drama focuses on the activities of consultant Pete St. John (Richard Gere). 7,101 Sidney Lumet was born in Philidelphia, Pennsylvania on the 25 June 1924 and passed away on Saturday 9 April 2011 at his family home in Manhattan of lymphoma. Director: | John Fiedler, Votes: Irene Worth, Votes: Vin Diesel, Don Johnson, Kate Capshaw, Votes: $8.12M, This movie is a crime drama about an NYPD officer who chooses to expose police corruption for idealistic reasons. Comedy, Drama. Paul Newman, Why did you have to kill an old boy who wasn't even a threat to you? The atmosphere is thick with hate and the acting is realistically gritty. Felicia (1920-1980) adında bir kız kardeşi vardı. In the late 1980s, a low level gangster named Jackie DiNorscio defends himself in court in what became the longest criminal trial in American judicial history. | Gross: Henry Fonda, ", R ATTICA! Stars: I have not seen this movie but I understand that the suits at MGM panicked and chopped up a perfectly good production because it did not have a Hollywood ending. Should apply to Film Studios as well. | Richard Gere, Stars: Director: ", G 5,363 | Candice Bergen, Nipsey Russell, | Gross: ", R 1,003 100 min He wants to kill me so bad he can taste it! Oscars Best Picture Winners Best Picture Winners Golden Globes Emmys STARmeter Awards San Diego Comic-Con New York Comic-Con Sundance Film Festival Toronto Int'l Film Festival Awards Central Festival Central All Events At least get me for assault. A lot of his movie material originated as plays and he very often retained the Ensemble element in the film. Jason Robards, Biography, Comedy, Crime. But during a routine Q&A, the righteous assistant DA finds a clue that sets them both on a collision course. ", R In the meantime the river is threatening to break its banks and flood everything. Diane Salinger, Votes: 35,979 Three amateur bank robbers plan to hold up a bank. One involves Linda Sykes (Maggie Gyllenhaal), an American woman detained in the People's Republic of China, the other is Sharif Bin Said (Bruno Lastra), an Arab man detained in New York City. Drama. Ruby Dee, Sidney Lumet Documentary, Biography, History. Dustin Hoffman, 107 min "The reality is that we do not wash our own laundry - it just gets dirtier. | Richard Foronjy, Stars: Whilst Katherine Hepburn had set the standard for this role in the 1933 film 'Morning Glory' based upon the same play, Mr Lumet's cast managed to exceed it, thus proving that Sidney was not a 'one trick pony'. Lynn Redgrave, | The caper goes wrong and Jessie ends up paying the bill in jail, Families are funny like that. Sidney Lumet on IMDb: Awards, nominations, and wins. This sounds like an epic production and worth a watch sometime. Sidney Lumet (USA, 1924) 12 Angry Men (1957), an adaptation of playwright Reginald Rose's teleplay "Twelve Angry Men" (1954), is a courtroom drama that focuses on the jurors' psychology, and the collective psychology of twelve men locked in a room. Dean Stockwell, Another film based upon a successful Broadway play with an excellent cast, Katharine Hepburn (Mary Tyrone) was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Actress in a Leading Role, although Anne Bancroft won the Oscar in 1963 for the Miracle Worker. Sidney Lumet was a master of cinema, best known for his technical knowledge and his skill at getting first-rate performances from his actors -- and for shooting most of his films in his beloved New York. The film is from Wallace Markfield's novel 'To An Early Grave' and is full of Jewish humour as four intellectuals attempt to attend a friend's funeral (The belated Mr Bravreman) with comic results. You don't care who gets hurt. Although the film had poor reviews, the acting was great, the timing was good but somewhere it just lacked that thing that brings it all together to be perfect. Bones starts dating playwright Steven Routledge (Peter Weller) but Max is not one to give in without a fight. Sidney Lumet, Director: 12 Angry Men. The Oscar-nominated director proved incredibly prolific during his career, directing over 40 movies in 50 years, from his … Crime, Mystery, Romance. Ian Holm, Votes: A technical malfunction sends American planes to Moscow to deliver a nuclear attack. "I'm appalled by all this vulgar breeding. | Simone Signoret, 11:23 PM PST | Gross: 12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon ve Network gibi başarılı ve kaliteli filmleri yönetmiştir.. Polonya Yahudisi oyuncu Baruch Lumet ve Eugenia Lumet'in oğlu olarak Philadelphia'da doğdu. Susan Strasberg, Sidney Lumet James Coburn, | Stars: Henry Fonda, ", R | Arthur Pope (Judd Hirsch) and his wife Annie (Christine Lahti) were responsible for destroying a Napalm factory and accidentally injuring a janitor in the 1970s and have been running ever since. Known as 'The Actor's Director' he was well respected in the Industry, although being based on the East Coast kept him out of the Lime Light enjoyed by some of his contemporaries. Stars: $4.36M, After an active career on the stage and learning how to shoot quickly whilst filming hundreds of TV episodes, Lumet turned his hand to the 'Art' of moviemaking. When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that sends them, their father and one brother's wife hurtling towards a shattering climax. I am safe within myself. Carrie Fisher, Director: 130 min Sidney Lumet (pronounced , loo-MET; born June 25, 1924) is an American film director, with over 50 films to his name, including 12 Angry Men (1957), Serpico (1973), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Network (1976) and The Verdict (1982), all of which, except for Serpico (1973), earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Director.. With Henry Fonda as the President who has to call the shots (literally) it paints a stark reality on this everyday story of Military folk. | Sean Connery, | He calls in a favour from a retired policeman, Inspector Mendel (Harry Andrews) as he suspects a leak inside his department and then things really kick off. | | Gross: The execution scenes were filmed in the former death chamber at Sing Sing Prison utilizing the electric chair that once sat there. | Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb', The Interviews: An Oral History of Television, NY TV: By the People Who Made It - Part I & II, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies, The Annual ACLU Tribute: A Salute to Sidney Lumet, Guest host: Mort Sahl; guests: Jimmy Helms, Sidney Lumet, Sally Kirkland, Mark Russell, Martin Baum, Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall. I have no desire for vengeance for what was done to me. Drama, Mystery. In a North African military prison during World War II, five new prisoners struggle to survive in the face of brutal punishment and sadistic guards. Dirty cop, Mike Brennan thinks he got away with murder. Much of the script is straight from the court transcripts of the trial. Cathy Moriarty, Votes: Pete is asked by an old friend, Senator Sam Hastings of Ohio (E.G. | Gross: Ian Bannen, | James Earl Jones. ", R 32,897 Sidney Lumet ", R Helen Mirren, Crime, Drama, Thriller. Stars: Huh? | ", PG-13 Five BAFTA nominations, but no wins, unfortunately. Faye Dunaway, Stars: 235,125 Filmed very effectively in Black and White, this was Lumet's first of five movies with Connery. - Hippocrates. 99 min | Director: Crime, Drama, Thriller. Shirley Knight, Votes: While he is engaged upon this task Pete finds out that all is not well in the State of Ohio and he becomes involved in some evil deeds. | Jane Fonda, Then I saw this movie which made me realise how close to total extermination the Human Race had brought itself. | 'Sorry' ain't gonna pay the bills, Chico! Richard Burton, Elizabeth Hartman, It was a critical and commercial failure in the cinemas at the time but has made a comeback over the years as children's entertainment with a certain adult appeal. An adaptation of "The Wizard of Oz" that tries to capture the essence of the African-American experience. | Gross: Follows Martin Luther King's life and decades long civil rights activism. They return to Jeb's ancestral home, a decaying mansion occupied by his multiracial half-brother Chicken (Robert Hooks). Al Pacino, "Some business guy steals a bank, he's a big success story. 'Prince of the City' was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, but lost to 'On Golden Pond'. Stars: | Sidney Lumet Harriet Andersson, Back to the UK with an excellent spy story based upon John le Carré's novel 'Call For The Dead'. Peter Finch (posthumous - the first actor to do so) for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Faye Dunaway for Best Actress in a Leading Role, Beatrice Straight for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and Paddy Chayefsky for Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen. It's our widows and our orphans! 116 min Rod Steiger, Sean Connery, Ah! Maureen Stapleton, Based upon Tennessee Williams' play 'Orpheus Descending' this film takes place in the Deep South where guitar playing drifter Valentine "Snakeskin" Xavier (Marlon Brando) gets a job working for a Lady (Anna Magnani) and gets pursued by the unladylike Carol (Joanne Wooward). $10.90M, Back to a movie I have seen. 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