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Sidney Arthur Lumet (/ l uː ˈ m ɛ t / loo-MET; [1] June 25, 1924 – April 9, 2011) was an American film director. Lumet started his career in theatre before moving to film, where he gained a reputation for making realistic and gritty New York dramas which focused on the working class , tackled social injustices , and often questioned authority.
Apr 9, 2011 · 9 April 2011. Sidney Lumet: Director with a social conscience. In a directing career lasting more than half a century, Sidney Lumet enjoyed a reputation for examining justice and integrity in ...
Jun 13, 2016 · Chad Perman. Sidney Lumet’s Running on Empty (1988) is a small, powerful, brilliantly-acted gem of a film. It tells the story of a family of four, the Popes, who have been living as fugitives for 15 years, wanted by the FBI following the parents’ bombing of a napalm lab—an act of protest against the Vietnam War that inadvertently wounded ...
Jan 9, 2024 · Absolutely not. I was interested in doing my first movie.” So says Sidney Lumet in the 2015 documentary By Sidney Lumet, though he is, surely, exaggerating. Over a 50-year filmmaking career, Lumet, with workmanlike regularity, turned his hand to a great number and variety of projects, but he returned most often to the subject of law and order.
Oct 10, 2019 · Sidney Lumet: Hollywood Maverick. The director of The Pawnbroker, Sidney Lumet, was born to Jewish parents in Philadelphia on June 25, 1924 (he died on April 9, 2011, aged 86). The family moved to New York when the young Sidney Lumet was just one year old.
Sidney Lumet was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, on June 25, 1924. His father, Baruch Lumet and his mother, Eugenia Wermus were both distinguished Yiddish theater actors. He appeared as a child actor in many theater productions during his childhood. He attended the ‘Professional Children’s School’ and then the ‘Columbia ...
Jun 24, 2024 · Dog Day Afternoon is an ideal intro to Lumet’s New York, a location the Manhattanite filmmaker explored to its fullest throughout his career, though never with a more pungent sense of the place. The film’s scope is wider than the city, however. Social concerns powered Lumet, and mid-1970s America gave the director ample fuel: Dog Day ...
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