Sidney Lumet

‘The Hill’: Sean Connery’s Sisyphean Bond Break-Out

  April 17, 2023   By Tim Pelan   I think one of the reasons we immediately got close was…

12 months ago

‘The Verdict’: Sidney Lumet and David Mamet’s Masterpiece as a Blend of a Courtroom Drama and a Personal Redemption Story

  By Sven Mikulec   Frank Galvin is an empty, whisky-drenched shell of a man. Once a successful lawyer at…

3 years ago

‘Network’: Sidney Lumet and Paddy Chayefsky’s Gruesome Prophecy Turned Reality

  By Koraljka Suton   Once it opened, everybody kept saying, ‘Oh, what a brilliant satire.’ But Paddy and I…

4 years ago

Reclaiming the Lost Art of Melodrama in Sidney Lumet’s Unsung Masterpiece: ‘Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead’

  By Parrish Stikeleather   I sent the script first to Philip, one of the finest actors in the country,…

5 years ago

‘12 Angry Men’: The Everlasting Testament to Sidney Lumet and Reginald Rose’s Filmmaking Prowess

  By Sven Mikulec   When esteemed actor Henry Fonda saw a successful teleplay called 12 Angry Men written for…

6 years ago

Sidney Lumet and Paddy Chayevsky’s ‘Network’: The Grim Prophecy that Was Once Just Brilliant Satire

  By Sven Mikulec What excited the general public and outraged horrified television moguls as a razor-sharp satire in 1976,…

7 years ago

Sidney Lumet’s ‘Serpico’: One Honest Man’s Struggle Against the System

  By Sven Mikulec   The legend has it, when Al Pacino asked Frank Serpico why he had blown the…

8 years ago

Sidney Lumet’s ‘Prince of the City’ and the Moral and Psychological Turmoil at the Heart of It

  By Sven Mikulec   In a city corrupt to the bone, can a man at the same time be…

9 years ago

Sidney Lumet’s ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ is most likely the one film in the director’s rich career that stayed with us the most

  By Sven Mikulec It was 12 Angry Men that initially attracted us to the great American filmmaker and storyteller…

9 years ago

BBC Omnibus: Documentary profiles of Cassavetes, Lumet, Altman, Tarantino, Ray

Omnibus was an arts-based BBC television documentary series, broadcast mainly on BBC One in the United Kingdom. It ran from 1967…

9 years ago