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	sidney lumet
		Sidney Lumet (born June 25, 1924 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American
		Sidney Lumet may not be the world's most consistent director.
		Sidney Lumet is a prestigious, well-respected director of emotionally...
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	Sidney Lumet Summary
		Lumet and Jones, a journalist and author, were married from 1963 until 1978 and have two daughters, Amy and Jenny, both actors.
		Sidney Lumet (born June 25 1924) is an American film director, with over 50 films to his name, including the critically acclaimed 12 Angry Men (1957), Serpico (1973), Dog Day Afternoon (1975) and Network (1976).
		Sidney was also the former son-in-law of Lena Horne as he was married to her daughter, the journalist and author Gail Lumet Buckley (nee Gail Jones).
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	Sidney Lumet - Films as director:, Other films:
		Although Sidney Lumet has applied his talents to a variety of genres (drama, comedy, satire, caper, romance, and even a musical), he has proven himself most comfortable and effective as a director of serious psychodramas and was most vulnerable when attempting light entertainments.
		Lumet's most important criterion is not whether the actions of these men are right or wrong but whether the actions are genuine.
		Nearly all the characters in Lumet's gallery are driven by obsessions or passions that range from the pursuit of justice, honesty, and truth to the clutches of jealousy, memory, or guilt.
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	The History of Cinema. Sidney Lumet: biography, reviews, links
		Sidney is a middle-aged mystery playwright who has lost his touch: another of his Broadway plays has flopped, and he gets drunk out of desperation.
		Sidney invites him to their mansion, tricks him into wearing a pair of handcuffs and then strangles him in front of his horrified wife.
		Sidney burns the manuscript of "Deathtrap" and the two begin a new life, as Clifford installs himself in the house and assumes the roles of secretary, companion and lover.
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	Sidney Lumet Biography at Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lumet first appeared on Broadway in "Dead End" (1935), written by family friend Sidney Kingsley who penned a part especially for him since he was too young to play one of the Dead End Kids.
		Lumet's reputation was still far from secure when he achieved a technical triumph in the editing room with his adaptation of Lewis Wallant's novel "The Pawnbroker" (1965).
		As Lumet flashed to the horror of Auschwitz, he began with two-frame cuts, repeated as often as he felt necessary for the picture to became clear, and then lengthened the images to four frames, eight frames, sixteen frames, and so on in a mathematical progression until the scene played in its entirety.
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	Sidney Lumet to Receive Honorary Academy Award®
		"Lumet is one of the most important film directors in the history of American cinema," said Academy President Frank Pierson, "and his work has left an indelible mark on both audiences and the history of film itself.
		The son of actor Baruch Lumet and dancer Eugenia Wermus, Lumet was born in Philadelphia and made his stage debut at New York's Yiddish Art Theater at the age of four, acting until the 1950s when he began working as a television director.
		Lumet's Honorary Oscar will be presented, along with other Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2004, on Sunday, February 27, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood and Highland®.
	www.oscars.org /press/pressreleases/2004/04.12.15a.html (336 words)

	Sidney Lumet - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Sidney Lumet - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Lumet, Sidney, born in 1924, American film director, whose films are concerned with social issues.
		Sidney (Nebraska), city in the southern Nebraska panhandle, the seat of Cheyenne County, situated on Lodgepole Creek, 187 km (116 mi) west of the...
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	Sidney Lumet
		Lumet carried the analysis still further in Power, sharpening a fine point at issue, but it was made in Avildsen’s The Formula as well (“We are the Arabs”).
		Lumet adopts a hands-off policy, instead concentrating on set-ups and camera movement.
		The plot is detailed and symbolic, and sparing the critics only because Lumet’s lightning-quick technique demands re-viewing, all of its parts mesh, though at some pretty far removes occasionally, as in the relationship between the DA and a member of the defense team (Lena Olin).
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	Sidney Lumet
		With several other New York-based actors, Lumet was featured in the agitprop film drama One Third of a Nation (1939); he played Sylvia Sidney's crippled kid brother, sparking the film's climax by setting fire to a disease-ridden tenement house and perishing in the conflagration.
		Lumet handled these diverse projects with considerable skill, managing to turn out a body of remarkably diverse work.
		Lumet's next effort was a 1999 remake of John Cassavetes' 1980 film Gloria.
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	MAGAZINE \| INDIE \| Sidney Lumet & Network \| VOL 28-1: May 2003
		Lumet's films have ranged from gritty crime and urban dramas like The Pawnbroker (1965), Serpico (1973) and Dog Day Afternoon (1975) to such classic plays as Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962) and The Sea Gull (1968).
		Several times during the evening, Lumet mentioned CBS (his alma mater in the early 1950s for such series as You Are There and Danger) as the model for UBS, the fictional broadcasting network in Network.
		Lumet is a master at understanding producers, and a question was raised about his priorities in dealmaking.
	www.dga.org /news/v28_1/indie_lumet-network.php3 (1903 words)

	Sidney Lumet
		Sidney Lumet (born June 25 1924 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American film director, with over 50 films to his name, including the critically acclaimed 12 Angry Men (1957), Serpico (1973), Dog Day Afternoon (1975) and Network (1976).
		Sidney was also the former son-in-law of Lena Horne as he was married to her daughter, the journalist and author Gail Lumet Buckley (née Gail Jones).
		BIOGRAPHY: The son of an actor and a dancer, Sidney Lumet was literally born...
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	IGN: Featured Filmmaker: Sidney Lumet
		According to All Movie Guide, Lumet portrayed Sidney¿s ¿crippled kid brother, sparking the film's climax by setting fire to a disease-ridden tenement house and perishing in the conflagration.¿ Lumet then served in World War II as a radar repairman in the U.S. Army from 1942-46.
		Sidney Lumet has directed too many great movies to have merely one ¿Must See Film.¿ Instead, I¿ve selected what I consider to be Lumet¿s Big Five, the pictures that define him as a filmmaker and where his contributions to cinema elevated the medium.
		Lumet provides all the little details about how a film is made (including such banalities as what the cast and crew eat at early morning rehearsals).
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	Sidney Lumet - The Huffington Post
		Among holdovers, Sidney Lumet's dark family drama "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" grossed an estimated $689,903 as it expanded to 122 theaters for a cume...
		As opposed to 42-year-old actress Marisa Tomei, who has several revealing nude scenes in the new Sidney Lumet drama When the Devil Knows You're Dead, the 43-year-old La Binoche (as she is known in France) insisted that snaps from her second...
		The actress insists the scene was very carefully and sensitively shot by director Sidney Lumet, but it's still likely to shock her family.
	www.huffingtonpost.com /people/Sidney+Lumet (1091 words)

	Sidney Lumet's star rises again with a tale about brotherly greed - The Boston Globe
		Lumet has the cast to back him up, too - Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Albert Finney, Marisa Tomei - and a spiky, unforgiving script by playwright and first-time screenwriter Kelly Masterson.
		Masterson and Lumet know the sins of the father are endlessly resented by the sons, but this passion play unfolds in mini-mall parking lots, bland-on-bland suburbs, and crummy apartments.
		A dead man's wife (Aleksa Palladino), one of the movie's gallery of small, incisive character studies, mourns her husband by saying "he paid the bills," and it's a eulogy everyone here understands.
	www.boston.com /ae/movies/articles/2007/11/09/sidney_lumets_star_rises_again_with_a_tale_about_brotherly_greed (906 words)

	Despite a 44-film career, Sidney Lumet's focused on what he's doing now - cleveland.com
		Lumet's masterful body of work started in 1957 with "12 Angry Men," the jury room drama still as vital and relevant as the day it was released.
		Before turning to movies, Lumet was a stage actor in New York and then directed many of the classic live dramas in television's "golden age" of the 1950s.
		When it's done it's done," Lumet said on the phone from his New York office.
	www.cleveland.com /entertainment/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/entertainment-0/119468712498290.xml&coll=2 (499 words)

	Amazon.com: Making Movies: Books: Sidney Lumet (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lumet lays it out step by step with absolute honesty (film-making can be boring!) but also with a great love, a love for a good film story.
		Lumet believes that the authorship of the film belongs to all the people who help make it-- the actors, the writer, the set designer, the cinematographer, etc.-- The proof is in the pudding: Dog Day Afternoon, 12 Angry Men, Network.
		Sidney Lumet's book has to be one of the greatest reads I have ever found on the art of making movies.
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	Night Falls on Manhattan - Sidney Lumet focuses on corruption
		Sidney Lumet is mad as hell and he's not going to.
		Lumet march over to his office window, fling it open and scream that he's not going to take it anymore.
		Lumet, who has been nominated for four best-director Academy Awards, worries there could soon come a time when there is no market for such work, for films that both entertain and provoke thought.
	www.cincinnati.com /freetime/movies/other/night.html (317 words)

	Sidney Lumet remembers ‘Network’ - MORE MOVIE NEWS AND FEATURES - MSNBC.com
		Director Sidney Lumet discussed the current state of TV news, which was the focus of his 1976 film, "Network." A poster of his latest film, "Find Me Not Guilty," hangs on a bulletin board.
		Sidney Lumet, who directed Paddy Chayefsky’s legendary script, believes that every absurdity, every sacrifice of ethics for the sake of a “50 share” depicted in “Network” has come to pass — save for the airing of Beale’s murder.
		Lumet’s feelings about TV today might be explained simply by the large, dusty, antiquated television set sitting beside him.
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	Tribute to Sidney Lumet
		We absolutely agree with Alan that Sidney Lumet is one of our greatest living directors, and for all his accomplishments, perhaps the most under-recognized by the general public.
		Sidney Lumet was born in Philadelphia on June 25, 1924, to dancer Eugenia Wermus Lumet and Yiddish stage actor Baruch Lumet.
		Sidney enlisted in the army at 17 and served in Burma and India as a radar repairman from 1942-46.
	www.films42.com /tribute/lumet.asp (1511 words)

	Oscars honour director Sidney Lumet. 28/02/2005. ABC News Online
		Lumet has been nominated for four Oscars for best director and one for best adapted screenplay during his long career, but has never taken home one of cinema's highest honours until today.
		"Lumet is one of the most important film directors in the history of American cinema," said Frank Pierson, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which organises the Oscars.
		Lumet's more than 40 films also include another Pacino hit, Serpico (1973), Running on Empty (1988), the Wizard of Oz remake The Wiz (1978), with Diana Ross and Michael Jackson, and 1977's drama Equus.
	www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200502/s1312782.htm (399 words)

	Movie Lists Directors - Sidney Lumet
		Sidney Lumet began his career in the theater as the son of noted actor Baruch Lumet.
		Sidney Lumet was an actor first by trade.
		Lumet’s first film Twelve Angry Men was shot in only 19 days and was under budget.
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	Illinois - Sidney Lumet’s classics - The new release of two ’70s classics should thrill fans of cinema - A ...
		Both films are the work of Sidney Lumet, a New York-based director who excelled at urban chaos.
		Al Pacino reteams with Lumet after their earlier triumph with Serpico, starring as a criminal with a strange ulterior motive: He is married, but he needs the money for a sex-change operation for his boyfriend (Chris Sarandon).
		Lumet’s skill with actors reached its pinnacle with Network, which was the only film to take three of the four acting Oscars.
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	MCN Oscar Notepad ... Sidney Lumet Award
		Beverly Hills, CA — Director Sidney Lumet has been voted an Honorary Award by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
		Lumet made his feature film debut in 1957 with the widely praised "12 Angry Men," which earned him an Academy Award nomination for directing.
		Lumet's Honorary Oscar will be presented, along with other Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2004, on Sunday, February 27, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood and Highland®.
	www.moviecitynews.com /awards/2005/oscars/notepad/041215a_pr.html (339 words)

	Sidney Lumet Biography
		Lumet's connection to New York stories began early; fittingly he was that most New York of characters -- a Dead End Kid -- in the original Broadway production.
		Lumet hit a slump in the late Sixties, but bounced back with The Anderson Tapes (1971) and The Offence (1973), an intense look at police brutality that prefigured the riveting cop dramas to come.
		Lumet's exploration of a bigoted cop in Q andA (1990) marked a return to the gritty dramas he does so well.
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	One Happy Man \| Sidney Lumet \| In the News \| Movies \| Entertainment Weekly
		''Lumet is one of the most important film directors in the history of American cinema,'' Academy president Frank Pierson said in a statement Wednesday, ''and his work has left an indelible mark on both audiences and the history of film itself.
		Lumet, who began his career in the 1950s as a director of TV dramas, earned an Oscar nomination for his first film, the jury-room drama 12 Angry Men (1957).
		Lumet, who is 80, surely doesn't see himself this way; in fact, he's currently shooting another gritty courtroom drama, Find Me Guilty, starring Vin Diesel as an accused mobster who defends himself in court.
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	Epinions.com - Sidney Lumet's STRIP SEARCH, the HBO Movie Many Didn't See
		Tackling the subject of national security and its extremities for a TV film for HBO is renowned auteur filmmaker Sidney Lumet, whose film credits includes such classics as "12 Angry Men”, “The Verdict”, “Serpico”, “Dog Day Afternoon”, “Running on Empty”, and “Network”.
		Lumet and Fontana aren’t trying to get people to say, this is what’s going on, as some will disagree.
		Though “Strip Search” is hardly an essential film from Sidney Lumet, it’s still one of his more compelling efforts in his long-standing film career as a director.
	www.epinions.com /content_3948781700 (1403 words)

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