Sidney Lumet Articles
DGA Awards vs. Academy Awards: Odd Men Out Bob Fosse, Woody Allen, Ingmar Bergman
Martin Balsam, Albert Finney in Murder on the Orient Express, directed by DGA (but not Oscar) nominee Sidney Lumet DGA Awards vs. Academy Awards 1960s: Odd Men Out Jules Dassin, Federico Fellini, Arthur Penn 1970 DGA David Lean, Ryan's Daughter Bob Rafelson, Five Easy Pieces AMPAS Federico Fellini, Satyricon Ken Russell, Women in Love DGA/AMPAS Franklin J. Schaffner, Patton Robert Altman, MASH Arthur Hiller, Love [...]
Elizabeth Taylor, Farley Granger, Jane Russell, Peter Falk, Sidney Lumet: TCM Remembers 2011
"TCM Remembers 2011" is out. Remembered by Turner Classic Movies are many of those in the film world who left us this past year. As always, this latest "TCM Remembers" entry is a classy, immensely moving compilation. The haunting background song is "Before You Go," by OK Sweetheart. Among those featured in "TCM Remembers 2011" are Farley Granger, the star of Luchino Visconti's Senso and [...]
Sidney Lumet Dies: TWELVE ANGRY MEN, DOG DAY AFTERNOON, NETWORK
Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Sidney Lumet, Murder on the Orient Express Sidney Lumet, whose performers ranged from Katharine Hepburn to Sharon Stone, from Ralph Richardson to Marlon Brando, from Anna Magnani to Al Pacino, from Lauren Bacall to Jane Fonda, from Simone Signoret to River Phoenix, from Paul Newman to Vin Diesel, from Wendy Hiller and John Gielgud to Diana Ross and Michael Jackson, and [...]
Henry Fonda on TCM: THE WRONG MAN, 12 ANGRY MEN, THE LADY EVE
Henry Fonda, like James Stewart and Gary Cooper, was one of the prototypical "All-American" actors of the studio era. But if you believe that Fonda's generally one-dimensional characters represented the average American male, then my guess is that you've just landed on planet Earth and you've never met an American — or any human being, for that matter. Poor Henry Fonda was stuck playing [...]