<> <> <\/a>\nSidney Lumet and Marlon Brando (from the Fugitive Kind) <\/p>\n<\/li>\nSidney Lumet <\/a> (June 25, 1924 \u2013 April 9, 2011)\n(- vigorous storytelling\u201d and the \u201csocial realism\u201d in his best work.)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CF1rtd8_pxA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nOf his final film, “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead” (2007), I wrote: “This is a movie, I promise you, that grabs you and won’t let you think of anything else. It’s wonderful when a director like Lumet wins a Lifetime Achievement Oscar at 80, and three years later makes one of his greatest achievements.” Like many of his films, it went on my list of the year’s ten best.<br \/>\n– <a href=\"http:\/\/rogerebert.suntimes.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20110409\/FEATURED\/110409988\">Roger Ebert <\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/features\/essential-sidney-lumet\/p1\">10 essential films<\/a> by Lumet (Running on Empty was not in this list).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/04\/10\/movies\/sidney-lumet-director-of-american-classics-dies-at-86.html?_r=2&hp\">Sidney Lumet, Director of American Film Classics, Dies at 86<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yet for all the critical success of his films and despite the more than 40 Academy Award nominations they drew, Mr. Lumet himself never won an Oscar, though he was nominated four times as best director. (The other nominations were for \u201c12 Angry Men,\u201d \u201cDog Day Afternoon\u201d and \u201cThe Verdict.\u201d)<br \/>\nOnly in 2005 did the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences present him with an honorary Academy Award. Manhola Dargis, writing in The New York Times, called it a \u201cconsolation prize for a lifetime of neglect.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Share <a href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/04\/09\/share-your-thoughts-about-film-director-sidney-lumet\/\">your thoughts on director Sidney’s Legacy <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/1LarryHagfailsafe03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/1LarryHagfailsafe03.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"1LarryHagfailsafe03\" width=\"500\" height=\"275\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/1LarryHagfailsafe03.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/1LarryHagfailsafe03-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcm.com\/mediaroom\/video\/429673\/Fail-Safe-Movie-Clip-Who-Gives-That-Order-.html\">Who gives the order <\/a>– Larry<br \/>\nLarry Hagman was in two films by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2013\/09\/21\/fail-safe-who-gives-that-oder-the-group-l-hagmans-early-films\/\">Sidney Lumet Fail Safe and The Group. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FCmCKCnRk8E&feature=relmfu\">On Actor’s studio <\/a>– interview <\/p>\n<p>Dean Stockwell (previous post) was in<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2011\/03\/07\/dean-stockwell-delicate-to-delirium\/\"> Long Day’s Journey into Night<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sidney Lumet and Marlon Brando (from the Fugitive Kind) Sidney Lumet (June 25, 1924 \u2013 April 9, 2011) (- vigorous storytelling\u201d and the \u201csocial realism\u201d in his best work.) Of his final film, “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead” (2007), I wrote: “This is a movie, I promise you, that grabs you and won’t let … <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2011\/04\/09\/sydney-lumet-r-i-p\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> “Sidney Lumet R.I.P”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Sidney Lumet <\/a> (June 25, 1924 \u2013 April 9, 2011)\n(- vigorous storytelling\u201d and the \u201csocial realism\u201d in his best work.)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CF1rtd8_pxA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nOf his final film, “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead” (2007), I wrote: “This is a movie, I promise you, that grabs you and won’t let you think of anything else. It’s wonderful when a director like Lumet wins a Lifetime Achievement Oscar at 80, and three years later makes one of his greatest achievements.” Like many of his films, it went on my list of the year’s ten best.<br \/>\n– <a href=\"http:\/\/rogerebert.suntimes.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20110409\/FEATURED\/110409988\">Roger Ebert <\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/features\/essential-sidney-lumet\/p1\">10 essential films<\/a> by Lumet (Running on Empty was not in this list).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/04\/10\/movies\/sidney-lumet-director-of-american-classics-dies-at-86.html?_r=2&hp\">Sidney Lumet, Director of American Film Classics, Dies at 86<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yet for all the critical success of his films and despite the more than 40 Academy Award nominations they drew, Mr. Lumet himself never won an Oscar, though he was nominated four times as best director. (The other nominations were for \u201c12 Angry Men,\u201d \u201cDog Day Afternoon\u201d and \u201cThe Verdict.\u201d)<br \/>\nOnly in 2005 did the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences present him with an honorary Academy Award. Manhola Dargis, writing in The New York Times, called it a \u201cconsolation prize for a lifetime of neglect.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Share <a href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/04\/09\/share-your-thoughts-about-film-director-sidney-lumet\/\">your thoughts on director Sidney’s Legacy <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/1LarryHagfailsafe03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/1LarryHagfailsafe03.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"1LarryHagfailsafe03\" width=\"500\" height=\"275\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/1LarryHagfailsafe03.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/1LarryHagfailsafe03-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcm.com\/mediaroom\/video\/429673\/Fail-Safe-Movie-Clip-Who-Gives-That-Order-.html\">Who gives the order <\/a>– Larry<br \/>\nLarry Hagman was in two films by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2013\/09\/21\/fail-safe-who-gives-that-oder-the-group-l-hagmans-early-films\/\">Sidney Lumet Fail Safe and The Group. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FCmCKCnRk8E&feature=relmfu\">On Actor’s studio <\/a>– interview <\/p>\n<p>Dean Stockwell (previous post) was in<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2011\/03\/07\/dean-stockwell-delicate-to-delirium\/\"> Long Day’s Journey into Night<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sidney Lumet and Marlon Brando (from the Fugitive Kind) Sidney Lumet (June 25, 1924 \u2013 April 9, 2011) (- vigorous storytelling\u201d and the \u201csocial realism\u201d in his best work.) Of his final film, “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead” (2007), I wrote: “This is a movie, I promise you, that grabs you and won’t let … <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2011\/04\/09\/sydney-lumet-r-i-p\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> “Sidney Lumet R.I.P”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CF1rtd8_pxA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nOf his final film, “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead” (2007), I wrote: “This is a movie, I promise you, that grabs you and won’t let you think of anything else. It’s wonderful when a director like Lumet wins a Lifetime Achievement Oscar at 80, and three years later makes one of his greatest achievements.” Like many of his films, it went on my list of the year’s ten best.<br \/>\n– <a href=\"http:\/\/rogerebert.suntimes.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20110409\/FEATURED\/110409988\">Roger Ebert <\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/features\/essential-sidney-lumet\/p1\">10 essential films<\/a> by Lumet (Running on Empty was not in this list).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/04\/10\/movies\/sidney-lumet-director-of-american-classics-dies-at-86.html?_r=2&hp\">Sidney Lumet, Director of American Film Classics, Dies at 86<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yet for all the critical success of his films and despite the more than 40 Academy Award nominations they drew, Mr. Lumet himself never won an Oscar, though he was nominated four times as best director. (The other nominations were for \u201c12 Angry Men,\u201d \u201cDog Day Afternoon\u201d and \u201cThe Verdict.\u201d)<br \/>\nOnly in 2005 did the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences present him with an honorary Academy Award. Manhola Dargis, writing in The New York Times, called it a \u201cconsolation prize for a lifetime of neglect.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Share <a href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/04\/09\/share-your-thoughts-about-film-director-sidney-lumet\/\">your thoughts on director Sidney’s Legacy <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/1LarryHagfailsafe03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/1LarryHagfailsafe03.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"1LarryHagfailsafe03\" width=\"500\" height=\"275\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/1LarryHagfailsafe03.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/1LarryHagfailsafe03-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcm.com\/mediaroom\/video\/429673\/Fail-Safe-Movie-Clip-Who-Gives-That-Order-.html\">Who gives the order <\/a>– Larry<br \/>\nLarry Hagman was in two films by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2013\/09\/21\/fail-safe-who-gives-that-oder-the-group-l-hagmans-early-films\/\">Sidney Lumet Fail Safe and The Group. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FCmCKCnRk8E&feature=relmfu\">On Actor’s studio <\/a>– interview <\/p>\n<p>Dean Stockwell (previous post) was in<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2011\/03\/07\/dean-stockwell-delicate-to-delirium\/\"> Long Day’s Journey into Night<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sidney Lumet and Marlon Brando (from the Fugitive Kind) Sidney Lumet (June 25, 1924 \u2013 April 9, 2011) (- vigorous storytelling\u201d and the \u201csocial realism\u201d in his best work.) Of his final film, “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead” (2007), I wrote: “This is a movie, I promise you, that grabs you and won’t let … <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2011\/04\/09\/sydney-lumet-r-i-p\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> “Sidney Lumet R.I.P”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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