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Sidney Lumet

June 2024

  • Mad as hell … Peter Finch as Howard Beale.

    Network review – terrific 1976 news satire is an anatomy of American discontent

    Peter Finch won a posthumous Oscar for his uproarious performance as a swivel-eyed news anchor – a cross between Billy Graham and Donald Trump

March 2024

  • Peter Bradshaw

    M Emmet Walsh was both a mesmerising everyman and an indelible gargoyle. How I’ll miss those poached-egg eyes

    Peter Bradshaw
    Always good as either an antagonist or malign authority figure, Walsh – best known as loathsome PI Visser in Blood Simple – was a singular, brilliant icon

December 2023

  • A man in a beanie in front of a city skyline.

    Serpico at 50: a daring look at police corruption anchored by Al Pacino

    The rough-around-the-edges docudrama of cops misusing their power seems even more provocative today

August 2023

  • Al Pacino in Serpico.

    Serpico review – Al Pacino is at his intense best in classic 70s corrupt-cop thriller

    Powerful story of disguise and alienation is led by the moral passion of Pacino’s countercultural whistleblower

June 2023

  • Prince Of The City - 1981<br>Editorial use only. No book cover usage. Mandatory Credit: Photo by Orion/Kobal/Shutterstock (5879523i) Treat Williams Prince Of The City - 1981 Director: Sidney Lumet Orion USA Scene Still Drama Le Prince de New York

    Treat Williams obituary

    Stage and film actor who worked with Sidney Lumet, Miloš Forman and Sergio Leone, and appeared in the TV cop drama Blue Bloods

December 2021

  • Gaite Jansen and Gijs Scholten van Aschat in After the Rehearsal, directed by Ivo van Hove, at the Barbican theatre, London, in 2017.

    All About Theatre About Film: Ivo van Hove’s big-screen obsessions in focus

    Europe’s in-demand theatre director is also an avid cinephile. A dizzying exhibition joins the dots between his adaptations of arthouse movies – by Antonioni, Bergman, Cassavetes and others – staged with designer Jan Versweyveld

February 2021

  • Walter Bernstein in 1983. As a journalist he worked on the staff of the New Yorker, and in 1980 he directed a film, Little Miss Marker, starring Walter Matthau and Julie Andrews.

    Walter Bernstein obituary

    Screenwriter blacklisted in Hollywood for leftwing sympathies who based The Front on his own experiences

February 2019

  • Albert Finney in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960).

    Film blog
    Albert Finney: a career in clips from Tom Jones to Miller's Crossing

    From kitchen sink Brit classics to crime dramas by the Coen brothers and Sidney Lumet – plus a couple of musicals – we look back at key highlights in the career of the late actor, who has died aged 82

July 2018

  • Ludivine Sagnier in Swimming Pool.

    From Do the Right Thing to Swimming Pool: culture's hottest heatwaves

    Tension simmers, passions rage and things are never the same again. We pick the books, film and music in which heatwaves inspire race riots, sexual abandon – and even a chainsaw massacre

May 2018

  • Sean Connery at the Cannes film festival, May 1965.

    The big picture
    The big picture: Sean Connery at the Cannes film festival, 1965

    On the eve of this year’s Cannes, we revisit Sean Connery arriving on the Croisette at the 1965 festival

November 2017

  • ‘There was no snow – we had to order 10-truckloads from the Alps’ … Jacqueline Bisset, third from right, and Albert Finney, centre, in the 1974 film.

    How we made
    How we made the original Murder on the Orient Express

    ‘I don’t think the cast of the new film have the same horsepower we had’

March 2016

  • Same old song ... Musical Youth, the Chinese version of High School Musical

    East is eden: the Hollywood hits heading for a Chinese remake – in pictures

    Hollywood studios, including Fox and Warner Brothers, are hoping to crack the quota system by remaking big US hits with a Chinese cast. Here’s a few of the big-hitters that are getting the remake treatment, and the films that have already been given a twist

August 2015

  • precinct 75

    Precinct Seven Five review – hair-raising corruption documentary

    Tiller Russell’s documentary about bent cops in the 1980s NYPD is like a real-life Sidney Lumet movie

July 2015

  • Cornelia Sharpe and Al Pacino in Sidney Lumet’s 1973 biopic Serpico.

    Reel history
    Serpico: New York police corruption classic shoots from hip – and hits target

    Al Pacino hits his mark as a whistleblower patrolman who confronts dirty New York City cops in Sidney Lumet’s historically accurate 1973 drama

June 2015

  • The Offence Sidney Lumet

    Philip French's classic DVD
    The Offence review – Connery and Lumet’s starkly naturalistic police drama

    Sean Connery’s tormented police sergeant is riveting, and a long way from 007…

April 2015

  • network dvd review lumet

    Philip French's classic DVD
    Network review – Philip French on Paddy Chayefsky and Sidney Lumet’s enduring satire

    This meticulous Watergate-era satire on American life remains a brave, outspoken work

March 2014

  • S~erpico, classic DVD

    Philip French's classic DVD
    Serpico DVD review – Philip French on one of New York's grittiest cop films

    Sidney Lumet's enduring thriller, which made a major star of Al Pacino, is one of the 70s' best maverick cop movies, writes Philip French

December 2013

  • Murder on the Orient Express

    Murder on the Orient Express to be remade by 20th Century Fox

    Ridley Scott named among producers of latest film version of Agatha Christie's detective novel

November 2013

  • Twelve Angry Men

    Another view
    A former juror's view on Twelve Angry Men

    Interview by Laura Barnett
    There's as much tense negotiation among the jurors in many real-life court cases as there is in this stage adaptation of the Sidney Lumet film, says former juror Emma Danvers

September 2013

  • jaws

    From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 27 September 1975: Jaws gives film festival some bite

    Originally published in the Guardian on 27 September 1975: Steven Spielberg's new film does not disappoint critics at the San Sebastián film festival

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