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  • March 20, 2016 at 4:42 pm #40840
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    So, I’ve been skimming “Making Movies” by director
    Sidney Lumet.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Lumet
    Its a fun read, with little anecdotes
    about actors and such. But Lumet keeps talking about
    “Prince of the City” and “Long Days Journey Into Night”
    (along with Dog Day Afternoon, 12 Angry Men, The Verdict, Serpico,
    Murder On the Orient Express and Network)

    Well, Ive never seen Prince of the City or Long Days Journey.

    I might have ta watch’em.

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    “….His first movie, 12 Angry Men, was an auspicious beginning for Lumet. It was a critical success and established Lumet as a director skilled at adapting theatrical properties to motion pictures. For US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, seeing the film for the first time, became a “pivotal moment” in her life, as she was at that time considering a career in law. “It told me that I was on the right path,” she said.[19] Fully half of Lumet’s complement of films have originated in the theater.[20]

    A controversial TV show he directed in 1960 gained him notoriety: The Sacco-Vanzetti Story on NBC. According to The New York Times, “the drama drew flack from the state of Massachusetts (where Sacco and Vanzetti were tried and executed) because it was thought to postulate that the condemned murderers were, in fact, wholly innocent. But the brouhaha actually did Lumet more good than harm, sending several prestigious film assignments his way.[21]…”

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