Filmmaker Sidney Lumet (born 1924) has made some of America's most memorable movies, including Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, and Network. His films have received more than 50 Academy Award nominations. Often called "an actor's director," Lumet is known...

Released in 1964, Director Sidney Lumet's taut nuclear thriller is based on the 1962 Eugene Burdick and John Wheeler novel of the same title. Examining the changing face of war in the nuclear age, Fail-Safe depicts the possible consequences of...

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), Network (1976) and The Verdict...

Joanna E. Rapf, editor. Sidney Lumet: Interviews. University Press of Mississippi, 2006. 200 pages; $20.00. Little Guy Author Joanna E. Rapf has meticulously collected twenty-one interviews about film director Sidney Lumet (b.1924), contributing to the Conversations with Filmmakers series published by the...

Robert Sklar Forward 03-24-1995 What Sidney Lumet Learned at the Movies. If he ever writes a personal memoir, says Sidney Lumet, it would tell the story not of his four-decade career as a leading American movie director but of his life as...

My favorite still from a movie made in New York is not in this book. I first saw it as a child of 11 or 12—I could have been leafing though Daniel Blum’s A Pictorial History of the Silent Screen (1953). (My future was all...

My favorite still from a movie made in New York is not in this book. I first saw it as a child of 11 or 12—I could have been leafing though Daniel Blum’s A Pictorial History of the Silent Screen (1953). (My future was all...