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Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Sidney Lumet, RIP

Making Movies is Sidney Lumet's book about just that.  It's fantastic.

In The Pawnbroker, Rod Steiger is the title character, running a pawn shop in Harlem in the 1960's, haunted by flashbacks of his youth/childhood in Nazi Germany.  It's gritty, sad, well-acted and well-shot.


Before the Devil Knows You're Dead is from 2006, and Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke are brothers, with a heist idea - a terrific plot, and more great acting.

Yes, there's Dog Day Afternoon, Serpico, 12 Angry Men, Network, and even The Wiz.  An amazing body of work.  Worth checking out.

P.S.  I got all the titles on this list from the library.  For free.

2 comments:

  1. That IS an amazing body of work. And I love the library plug!

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  2. Thanks Em! And I'm in the middle of another post where I think I'm going to end up plugging the library again.

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