itsamadmadblog2.blogspot.com - 5/26/2008
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After seeing last year's remarkably accomplished "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" by 83 year old filmmaker Sidney Lumet, I decide to conduct a comprehensive viewing of his lengthy and storied career. This is easier said than done. Eight films are not available in any form. A handful of others exist only in worn out VHS tapes and then the rest can be picked through on DVD. I did the best ...
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DVD Panache —
... has an ambitious piece about Sidney Lumet's career . I was unfamiliar with most of these titles and obviously need to change that about a few of them. -- ...
Links of the Week Ending 5-31-08
The Moviezzz Blog —
... may have read this, and I've been meaning to write more about it, but here is an excellent piece about "How Home Entertainment Ruined Movies". *Bruno is on the loose!!! *AICN's Harry Knowles underwent a lapband surgery and provides some photos you probably didn't want to see. Click here if you do. *A lot of great stuff at the Indiana Jones Blogathon. *Self Styled Siren looks at James Stewart. *Joseph reviews the career of Sidney Lumet. *Why is there a mural of Gary Coleman in Cannes? Glenn ...
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filmexperience.blogspot.com 5/23/2008 — A reader request (long time in coming --my apologies Chris!) One thing I suspect about director Sidney Lumet : He likes his drama super sized. I'm talking Empire State Building big. No 800 lbs gorillas in the room please, make it King Kong. Give them 16 tons of drama. Lumet wants grunting, sweating, lunging, screaming, gargantuan desperate drama like the kind you get in Dog Day Afternoon, ...