Sidney Lumet (1924-2011)

[throatybeard]

Brill wasn't the only legend who checked out this weekend.

Here is Roger Ebert's remembrance of Sidney Lumet (http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110409/PEOPLE/110419998).

Times obit (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/movies/sidney-lumet-director-of-american-classics-dies-at-86.html?hpw).

I remember the first time I saw Network. It was on the train from Saint Louis to Chicago just a few years ago. It was a revelation. Devastatingly funny. And Twelve Angry Men, my goodness.

[roywhite]

Brill wasn't the only legend who checked out this weekend.

Here is Roger Ebert's remembrance of Sidney Lumet (http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110409/PEOPLE/110419998).

Times obit (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/movies/sidney-lumet-director-of-american-classics-dies-at-86.html?hpw).

I remember the first time I saw Network. It was on the train from Saint Louis to Chicago just a few years ago. It was a revelation. Devastatingly funny. And Twelve Angry Men, my goodness.


"I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!"

Classic.

[rasputin]

"I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!"

Classic.

A phrase that has entered the lexicon such that people say it, and don't even know the movie.

My top three from Lumet are Network, Twelve Angry Men, and Fail-Safe. (Mr. Lumet was able to get a lot out of Henry Fonda.)