Sidney Lumet

...his films continue to be forms of live theater. It goes back to the first movie he ever saw. "I was five or six," Sidney Lumet recalled, "and I was coming onto 14th Street and Second Avenue, near where we lived. There were two movie...

In this article: Academy Award, James Cagney, Coleslaw, Corned beef, Sandwich, New York, Relish, and 12 Angry Men

...Trophy on points difference during June's shared series. Rightly or wrongly an inspiration to potential jurors everywhere, Sidney Lumet's 1957 classic pits voice-of-reason Henry Fonda against eleven others baying for the blood of a man...

In this article: David Tennant, Academy Award, Entertainment Weekly, Ryan Nelsen, Doctor, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Henry Fonda, and A Love Story

...suspenseful and comic pleasures out of a time-bending format that has served the likes of Quentin Tarantino ("Pulp Fiction") and Sidney Lumet ("Before the Devil Knows You're Dead") among scores of others. In fact, Ethan Hawke seems to have...

In this article: Sarah Kunstler, William Kunstler, Hal Holbrook, Disturbing the Universe, Emily Kunstler, Vincent D'Onofrio, Gene Upshaw, Harry Carson, and Seymour Cassel

...video and television exposure thanks to its reasonably well-known cast. Actually, the film is less reminiscent of Tarantino than Sidney Lumet's "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead," thanks to its time-shifting chronology and the presence of...

In this article: Staten Island, Seymour Cassel, Ethan Hawke, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, New York, Deforestation, Hollywood Reporter, Vincent D'Onofrio, and Saturday Night Fever

...right away because you realized he cast you and he trusted you. '' Working with Penn, he says, he finally could understand what Sidney Lumet told him on the set of his first film, "The Group,'' in 1965. After disliking what he had done in...

In this article: Hal Holbrook, Sean Penn, Goldie Hawn, Dixie Carter, The Girl from Petrovka, Tennessee, God, and Oscar

...in show business as an agent at William Morris and then International Famous Artists. He represented actress Cicely Tyson, director Sidney Lumet and writers David W. Rintels and Bruce Joel Rubin and packaged such hit films as "Love Story"...

In this article: Patch Adams, Richard Nixon, Bonnie Franklin, Bruce Joel Rubin, David Frost, Margaret Sanger, Robin Williams, Business partner, and Oscar

...indispensable film versions of great American dramatic plays, along with Elia Kazan's adaptation of "A Streetcar Named Desire" and Sidney Lumet's uncut version of "Long Day's Journey into Night." A retrospective of Ryan's centennial...

In this article: Robert Ryan, The Iceman Cometh, Academy Awards, American Film Theatre, Crossfire, Richard Brooks, Edward Dmytryk, Hollywood, The Professionals, and Billy Budd

...maven and impresario of improvisation, presents his annual multimedia event, this year focusing on Quincy Jones's score for the 1964 Sidney Lumet movie starring Rod Steiger, performed along with excerpts from the film. Aaron Hartley's...

In this article: Sufjan Stevens, Boston, Herman Dune, NEC, Jordan Hall, Cambridge, and AIDS

...Jackson's estate for rented sound recording and audio equipment "in connection with the making of a musical." [TMZ] Sidney Lumet will be honored by Italy's Federico Fellini Foundation with a lifetime achievement award on Saturday.

In this article: Jon Gosselin, Lindsay Lohan, Jay Leno, Kristen Stewart, Sherri Shepherd, Oprah Winfrey, and Kate Gosselin

...now pretty much given up on. They're investing in Guy Ritchie movies for December release these days, and Guy Ritchie ain't Sidney Lumet or Mike Nichols or David Lean. Well, the save-us-from-disappointment crowd had better get with it. They'd...

In this article: Oscar, Mary J. Blige, Morgan Freeman, RSS, Facebook, Guy Ritchie, Hollywood, and Beneficiary