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1.Twelve Angry Men [1957] starring: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Martin Balsam, John Fiedler, E.G. Marshall directed by: Sidney Lumet March 19, 2001
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I'd love to rate it five star as everyone else has done but it was just "too" contrived, although it was the object of the film. The mix of jurors was excellent and the way the characters interacted was superb but I felt that i) it wouldn't happen as conveniently as that in reality..ii) Lee J.Cobb capitulated too easily...iii) Fonda actually thought that the boy could've committed the murder...iv) the absence of any other suspect.. ...v) if everybody's testament was flawed then not even Fonda's argument/reasoning was perfect? That said, it did enthral and showed how prejudiced our beliefs can be..but, by his analysis of human nature he could've acquitted Jack the Ripper....All in all a typical(though not at that time) lawyeristic case ... Read More:

2.Paul Newman - Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid / The Hustler / The Verdict [1961] starring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Jackie Gleason, Charlotte Rampling, Katharine Ross directed by: George Roy Hill, Robert Rossen, Sidney Lumet November 04, 2002
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I'd love to rate it five star as everyone else has done but it was just "too" contrived, although it was the object of the film. The mix of jurors was excellent and the way the characters interacted was superb but I felt that i) it wouldn't happen as conveniently as that in reality..ii) Lee J.Cobb capitulated too easily...iii) Fonda actually thought that the boy could've committed the murder...iv) the absence of any other suspect.. ...v) if everybody's testament was flawed then not even Fonda's argument/reasoning was perfect? That said, it did enthral and showed how prejudiced our beliefs can be..but, by his analysis of human nature he could've acquitted Jack the Ripper....All in all a typical(though not at that time) lawyeristic case ... Read More:

3.Network [1976] starring: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall, Wesley Addy directed by: Sidney Lumet March 17, 2003
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It could have been a great film. It had all it needed to be a masterpiece. It debunked the old traditional boring television of our great grand parents, that television that was speaking all the time in order to bring us the truth, to teach us the true truth, to make us believe every word they said was absolutely inspiring and we had to be thankful and grateful for this new medium to be so effective in teaching us, in lifting us out of our ignorance. They treated television as a super book, an encyclopedia and they had not understood the slightest smallest element of what this medium was. They had not read Marshall McLuhan and when they had heard of him they thought he was trite, insignificant and purely ranting and raving. And they were going to learn ... Read More:

4.Dog Day Afternoon - Special Edition [1975] starring: Al Pacino, Charles Durning, James Broderick, John Cazale, Carol Kane directed by: Sidney Lumet February 13, 2006
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I hadn't heard of this film until i became a big Al Pacino fan recently. I watched it for the first time the other day not expecting much but i absolutely loved every minute of it. The acting is brilliant and the films funny and moving. It didn't seem dated at all. I'm surprised there are not more reviews of this film on here (although there are over 100 on amazons american site). The extras are interesting too with a documentary including casting, filming etc info. Watch it!

5.The Agatha Christie Collection (4 Disc Box Set) starring: Geraldine Chaplin, Anthony Perkins, Michael York, Vanessa Redgrave, Albert Finney directed by: Sidney Lumet September 25, 2006
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Wow! THE Hercule Poirot himself (A.k.a. Sir Peter Ustinov) in action! That's really something to watch and fully enjoy! I think Ustinov was realy born for this role (so sad he passed away, but, anyway, we don't live forever). Together with "Appointment With Death" (another great DVD) can make you stick in your armchair for several hours, not worrying where did you put the remote...

6.The Deadly Affair [1966] starring: James Mason, Simone Signoret, Harry Andrews, Maximilian Schell, Lynn Redgrave directed by: Sidney Lumet November 06, 2006
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The Deadly Affair is one of the better John Le Carre screen adaptations. Based on 'Call For the Dead,' the title's not the only name change: though he's called Charles Dobbs here, James Mason is really George Smiley while Maximilian Schell's character also undergoes a name change from The Spy Who Came In from the Cold because Paramount still owned the character names. Shot in 1966, when Britain seemed to be closed due to bad weather (a look made even grimmer by Freddie Young pre-exposing the film stock to mute the colours), Sidney Lumet's low-key and very small-scale thriller works much successfully on screen than you might expect. Where many LeCarres fail because, as someone once said, they're all plot and no story, this has at its heart a fairly good mystery ... Read More:

7.The Verdict [1982] starring: Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, James Mason, Jack Warden, Milo O'Shea directed by: Sidney Lumet July 18, 2005
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In many ways it is a great film. It is a film about justice and how crooked it is. Justice is not interested in truth but in respecting some procedures, some rules that only aim at protecting the powerful. The flaw in that system is not the judges who are unbreakable walls keeping the defense counselors of the victims in their place, which is in the margin of the case. The flaw is the jury when there is one and when this jury is not crooked, bought up, bribed or simply afraid. This jury has all powers they can dream of in their hands as for making justice and making the law, the common law of jurisprudence. But what can a jury be afraid of? Many things. In this film it is not the racial problem. It is not the social problem either. This case has to do with hospitals ... Read More:

8.Serpico [1973] starring: Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe, Biff McGuire, Barbara Eda-Young directed by: Sidney Lumet December 23, 2002
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This true story based film is set in the corruption addled 1970s New York police force, with Serpico as the only cop who wouldn't take the huge bribes on offer. This is a great film, a slow builder but definitely worth the time to see this story unfold. It's a fine movie.

9.Before The Devil Knows You're Dead [2007] starring: Albert Finney, Ethan Hawke, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Michael Shannon, Marisa Tomei directed by: Sidney Lumet May 26, 2008
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Sidney Lumet has made a lot of really good films - 'Fail Safe', 'Twelve Angry Men' - and lot of really not so great - 'Family Business', 'Q & A'. Before the Devil knows You're dead is in the latter category, but near the top. It's a credit to the guy (and the film's underwriters) that an 83-year-old can make a picture like this, but it is inescapable that matters of tone went a bit awry. I think Phillip Seymour Hoffman is great, but - in this - he feels a bit miscast. From the opening, graphic shot of him going at it with Marisa Tomei, it all feels wrong. He's not adonis and she - frankly - is stunning. My first thought was that this was a commercial transaction. Later on, he's visiting a transvestite. Is that for sex? It appears to be for drugs, ... Read More:

10.Agatha Christie's Murder On The Orient Express [1974] starring: Albert Finney, Anthony Perkins, Richard Widmark, Ingrid Bergman, Lauren Bacall directed by: Sidney Lumet January 07, 2008
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The movie was made as a period piece. There are great scenes of the express, landscapes, food and other items. The costumes are also very plush. Even though the movie is star studded the actors to not out shine the characters they play. As usual Hercule is in earshot of many private conversations that will be used later to his sleuthing advantage once processed by his little gray cells. On the train Hercule (Albert Finney) is approached by an American business man who tries to heir him for protection. Hercule turns him down and the next morning the business man is dead. This movie has everything that makes Agatha Christie movies great. Everyone is a suspect. Everybody could have done it. Only Hercule Poirot can figure this out. Naturally Hercule Poirot ... Read More:

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