Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In "By Sidney Lumet," a documentary portrait of the late director who was one of the defining filmmakers of the '70s — but whose ...

Every New Yorker knows the films of Sidney Lumet. Dark, gritty portraits of underdogs, rebels and lost men, they left an indelible mark on American cinema. Lumet, who went 0-for-5 at the Oscars before ...

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Season 31 of "American Masters" launches Tuesday, January 3 on PBS. Film legend Sidney Lumet is one of the most accomplished, influential and revered directors in cinema history, known for films like ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The anger. That's what strikes me most about Network four decades after ...

Of all the films excerpted in Nancy Buirski’s warm, roving documentary “By Sidney Lumet,” the one that she keeps returning to is the great director’s 1957 first feature, “12 Angry Men.” It was, as ...

Just after Sidney Lumet passed away, I received numerous e-mails from film students who fondly recalled his visits with them at Columbia University. A few remembered the emotional wallop of seeing ...

I think when Katharine Hepburn slaps Dean Stockwell, what he's just done is say mama I'm sick i've got TB. In other words, he's told her that he has a death sentence - which it was in those days - and ...

Nancy Buirski’s By Sidney Lumet opens with the late filmmaker reflecting on his witnessing, as a young man, the rape of an underage girl by a group of soldiers on a train. Lumet was permanently ...

Film history is filled with memorably searing slaps—but few were delivered with as much conviction as the stinging blow Katharine Hepburn delivered to Dean Stockwell’s cheek in Sidney Lumet’s 1962 ...

Sidney Lumet was one of the greatest chroniclers of New York City. Films like “Serpico” and “Dog Day Afternoon” serve as gripping time capsules to the five borough’s mean old, pre-gentrified, “Ford to ...