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Aug 14, 2023 · One of the most astounding scenes in the movie comes when a seemingly unremarkable, shy nurse enters a courtroom. The impact of this scene is such that when comparing it to the very similar moment in “ A Few Good Men ” when the great Jack Nicholson (in a monumental role that terrifies everybody in his wake) takes the stand, it overshadows it.
Dec 14, 2012 · The most memorable verdict. Gerardo Valero. December 14, 2012. 4 min read. Courtroom dramas count for some of Hollywood’s best movies and, among their finest stands Sidney Lumet’s “ The Verdict.”. Even when comparing it to other greats such as his own “ 12 Angry Men ” or “ To Kill a Mockingbird “, “The Verdict” stands in my ...
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- Director’s Commentary with Sidney Lumet
“You gotta put your ass on the line and use the audience. Period. The reason that theatre evolved that way was because the progress of the theatre on the stage aped and recapitulated the mechanism of human understanding, which is: thesis, antithesis and synthesis. And one learns to lead the audience ahead by giving them just enough information to m...
“Your chances of making a living or making a better living are increased by writing something that you would want to write badly enough that you would actually go out and raise the money to direct it. You’re much better to do that because otherwise you’re just going to waste twenty years waiting for the good will of your inferiors. If you really, r...
“The trick is—never write exposition. That’s absolutely the trick. Never write it. The audience needs to understand what the story is, and if the hero understands what he or she is after then the audience will follow it. The ancient joke about exposition used to be in radio writing when they’d say, ‘Come and sit down in that blue chair.’ So, that t...
“In every generation the cunning rediscover that they can manipulate the trustful and they count this as the great, great wisdom of all time.”
“I suggest that everyone get Francis Ferguson’s edition of Aristotle’s Poetics. Read it once—it’ll make the point—and then retire to your typewriters. [Screenwriting’s] all about working on it and working on it until it comes out even. There’s really no magic to it. There really isn’t. They say that Bach could improvise a toccata and I’m sure he co...
128 minutes of BTS and insight from the legendary director, courtesy of Vashi Nedomansky. “On the commentary to the DVD for The Verdict, director Sidney Lumet relates how he and the cinematographer studied the paintings of Caravaggio as a visual reference and color scheme for filming The Verdict. It is evidenced in almost every frame of this dark, ...
Jan 29, 2020 · Fail Safe. Sidney Lumet. “It’s a procedural thriller set in a world that is both physically and philosophically isolated—but it is also haunted by a real-life churning beyond its immediate borders.”. Lumet’s early films evince a fascination with working-class subjects and kitchen-sink realism (A View from the Bridge, 1962; The ...
Mar 9, 2022 · Lumet writes in plain, simple, and entertaining terms about his thought process behind so many of cinema's greatest movies that it is rather difficult to not just want to go pick up a camera ...
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Apr 9, 2011 · 8. THE WIZ (1978) Lumet's adaptation of the hit Broadway musical remains one of the strangest films on his résumé. Starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson, The Wiz was both a critical and ...
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Jul 30, 2024 · Sean and Amanda are joined by Chris Ryan to commemorate the career of one of America’s greatest directors, Sidney Lumet. They talk about him as a person, his path to becoming a workman director ...
