Director Sidney Lumet has passed away

[uncageg]

Posted: 4/9/11 at 11:17am

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/09/sidney-lumet-dead_n_847014.html

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 4/9/11 at 11:39am

NETWORK is one of my all time favorite movies, and there's nothing like Faye Dunaway's performance in that film (though the movie is filled with those kinds of performances: Peter Finch, William Holden, Beatrice Straight, Robert Duvall, Ned Beatty...). MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS is quite a treat as well, and again, what a cast!
RIP, Mr.Lumet

[wexy]

Posted: 4/9/11 at 12:23pm

Some great films. Rest In Peace.

[strummergirl]

Posted: 4/9/11 at 12:30pm

Never afraid to do something different from a previous work. Twelve Angry Men was probably my favorite. RIP

[uncageg]

Posted: 4/9/11 at 12:57pm

My favorite was "Murder on the Orient Express". I probably saw it about 5 times.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 4/9/11 at 1:04pm

It's all about DOG DAY AFTERNOON for me. Right smack dab in the middle of the cinematically homophobic 70's, here is a mainstream film about a gay guy who robs a bank to get his boyfriend a sex change.

He's one of those directors...even his failures--like JUST TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT and A STRANGER AMONG US--had some interesting things going on in them.

Updated On: 4/9/11 at 01:04 PM

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 4/9/11 at 1:08pm

Updated On: 4/9/11 at 01:08 PM

[Q]

Posted: 4/9/11 at 1:49pm

Borstal, that's my fave, too - and one of the films that helps me understand the reverence for Pacino, too. Hard to believe he never got an Oscar for an individual project - he had quite a resume'.

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 4/9/11 at 2:58pm

May he R.I.P.

He captured the grittiness of '70s NYC in Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon and Prince of the City.

He directed one of my all-time guilty pleasures: The Group.




And after all is said and done I forgive him for the atrocity that is THE WIZ.

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 4/9/11 at 7:15pm

Will openly admit that The Wiz is a guilty pleasure of mine, and I thank Lumet for it daily.

[sabrelady]

Posted: 4/9/11 at 9:49pm

I almost cried when I heard this. Such a consumate professional. He started as an actor in New York and I think thats what made him so understanding of his actors. He wrote a book "Making Movies" that is one of the finest explainations of moviemaking (for a lay person.) He uses many of his films as examples- He knew he failed w The Wiz and he goes into some of his understandings of it. He also talks about the movie "Daniel" as a particular favorite of his, esp a theme who pays for the passionsand commitments of the parents? The children.

Here is a short list of some of his films:
12 Angry Men
A View from the Bridge
The Pawnbroker
Stage Struck
The Group
The Seagull
The Appointment
The Anderson Tapes
Child's Play
Serpico
Murder on the Orient Express
Dog Day Afternoon
Network
The Wiz
Just Tell Me What You Want
Prince of the City
Deathtrap
The Verdict
Daniel
Garbo Talks!
The Morning After
Running on Empty
Q & A
and of course his TV series late in his career
100 Centre Street

G*d Bless Mr Lumet. And thank you.

[best12bars]

Posted: 4/10/11 at 7:00pm

In addition to all this he was a child actor on Broadway, appearing in the original "Dead End" play with all of the "Dead End Kids": Leo Gorcey, Hunts Hall, etc., and Margorie Main. That was 1936. He did several Broadway plays and musicals as a child before transitioning into directing.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 4/10/11 at 7:42pm

Such a rich history and so much talent.

RIP

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 4/10/11 at 8:21pm

Sad to see him go - he seemed like a real director, who actually directed, not just pointed the camera at the actors, if you know what I mean. Just saw The Anderson Tapes recently, great to see Margaret Hamilton in 1970!