Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sidney Lumet once wrote: “While the goal of all movies is to entertain, the kind of film in which I believe goes one step further.

NEW YORK — Sidney Lumet, the award-winning director of such acclaimed films as “Network,” “Serpico,” “Dog Day Afternoon” and “12 Angry Men,” has died. He was 86. Lumet’s death was confirmed by ...

If an essential quality of great art is timelessness, Hollywood movies on contemporary social issues have a checkered history. Some endure as classics, but many others have long ago lost their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While breaking down his career with Vanity Fair, four-time Oscar-nominated actor Ethan Hawke recalled his work on Sidney Lumet’s ...

What do experimental cinema pioneer Stan Brakhage and five-time Oscar nominee (and Honorary Oscar winner) Sidney Lumet have in common? Both are filmmakers . . . and, well, that’s where the ...

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A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...

Sidney Lumet was an actor's director, a prolific filmmaker whose nearly 50 films started with "12 Angry Men" in 1957 and ended with "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead," in 2007. In 1975, "Dog Day ...

A good family should protect us from harm, but in Sidney Lumet’s last film, it may turn out to be a place where our flaws find shelter. In this picture, the director focuses on the tragic story of two ...

Sidney Lumet director of nearly 50 films, including the classics 12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon and Network, passed away in his Manhattan apartment this morning, The New York Times is reporting.

Helmer drove such distinctive pics as '12 Angry Men,' 'Dog Day Afternoon' Lumet died at his home in Manhattan. The prolific helmer of more than 40 films was 86. The director was Oscar-nommed for “12 ...

NEW YORK — Sidney Lumet, the award-winning director of such acclaimed films as “Network,” “Serpico,” “Dog Day Afternoon” and “12 Angry Men,” has ...