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'12 Angry Men': Why Sidney Lumet's Claustrophobic Classic Still Matters
16 April 2012 4:59 AM, PDT | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
On paper, it's a tough sell: a black-and-white movie set in one room, with an all-male (and all-white) cast, with no action except for a heated war of words among a dozen guys. Indeed, "12 Angry Men" -- which opened 55 years ago last week (April 13, 1957) -- with its shoestring budget, was a financial flop, and while it was nominated for three Oscars (including Best Picture), it lost them all to the splashier, more colorful, wide-screen epic "The Bridge on the River Kwai." Yet today, "12 Angry Men" is considered a classic, not just for its riveting script and top-notch acting, but also for how it made a virtue of its stagy limitations. Adapted by Reginald Rose from his own 1954 TV play (back when live drama was a TV staple), the movie expanded the hour-long story of a deliberating jury into 95 minutes, but it didn't expand the confines of the setting: a single, »
- Gary Susman
The Films Of Sidney Lumet: A Retrospective
9 April 2012 8:00 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
It has been a year since Sidney Lumet passed away on April 9, 2011. Here is our retrospective on the legendary filmmaker to honor his memory. Originally published April 15, 2011.
Almost a week after the fact, we, like everyone that loves film, are still mourning the passing of the great American master Sidney Lumet, one of the true titans of cinema.
Lumet was never fancy. He never needed to be, as a master of blocking, economic camera movements and framing that empowered the emotion and or exact punctuation of a particular scene. First and foremost, as you’ve likely heard ad nauseum -- but hell, it’s true -- Lumet was a storyteller, and one that preferred his beloved New York to soundstages (though let's not romanticize it too much, he did his fair share of work on studio film sets too as most TV journeyman and early studio filmmakers did).
His directing career stretched well over 50 years, »
- Oliver Lyttelton
Goodbye by Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof
26 March 2012 1:31 AM, PDT | DearCinema.com | See recent DearCinema.com news »
The overall impact of viewing the Iranian film Goodbye reminds you of another unrelated film from USA. Way back in 1964, Hollywood produced a film called The Pawnbroker. It was directed by the late Sidney Lumet. Anyone who has seen that film will not forget actor Rod Steiger’s scream at the end of the film—a scream so anguished that no sound emanated from his vocal chords. A silent scream is an oxymoron but that single enigmatic scene propelled the career of Steiger and the performance won him a Silver Bear for Acting at the Berlin Film Festival. And Steiger later claimed that he borrowed the idea after seeing the anguish of the male subject’s skyward cry at the right extreme of the famous and massive Pablo Picasso painting ‘Guernica’.
Goodbye is also about anguish—the silent suffering of the ordinary Iranian, intolerance of individual and artistic freedom of »
- Jugu Abraham
Get humbled by this supercut of Morgan Freeman's deepest thoughts
23 March 2012 8:45 AM, PDT | Nerve | See recent Nerve news »
Morgan Freeman, as movie buffs know, is synonymous with gravitas. His deep, wise voice, earned through seventy-four years of life experience, is oracular and reassuring. To hear that voice read a phone book is to automatically be rendered a better person. That he's gone from playing Man on Street in The Pawnbroker to God in Bruce Almighty tells us that Freeman has more than paid his dues. The staff at Next Movie have put together a supercut entitled "Deep Thoughts... with Morgan Freeman", stringing together a number of Freeman gems culled from films like Glory, The Shawshank Redemption, Driving Miss Daisy, Invictus, and Se7en. (Though nothing from The Electric Company, as you might imagine.) Sure, the lines aren't necessarily Freeman's, but no one can deliver them like The Man Who Was Born to Play Mandela. Watching the montage, any resistance is futile as [...] »
Daily Briefing. Experimental Conversations 8
21 January 2012 9:41 AM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
The Pawnbroker (1964)
"Sidney Lumet: Experimental Filmmaker?" That title's a grabber and the link to Fergus Daly's essay in the new Winter 2011 issue of Experimental Conversations, Cork Film Centre's online journal of experimental film, art cinema and video art, began bopping around, given a propulsive boost from Girish Shambu and Catherine Grant:
When Lumet died and tributes started to flood in from luminaries such as Scorsese, Allen and Pacino, it was easy to forget the disdain with which Lumet was often met with throughout his career, most notably the appalling attacks on him by the likes of celebrity reviewer Pauline Kael, an unaccountably influential figure in American film criticism who assassinated Lumet time and again, personally and professionally… In the final analysis, Kael's type of neurotic and unconsidered attack may be entertaining for celebrity culture devotees but in the end it has nothing to do with the cinema. »
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