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By Sidney Lumet
Directed by
Nancy Buirski
2016
1h 43m
Documentary
7.2
83%
75%
6.8
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In a never-before-seen interview filmed in 2008, three years before his death, Sidney Lumet discusses his life and career.
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Sidney Lumet
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Nancy Buirski
Director / Writer / Producer
Bobby Kondrat
Executive Producer
James Packer
Executive Producer
Brett Ratner
Executive Producer
Jay Peterson
Executive Producer
Todd Lubin
Executive Producer
Jack Turner
Executive Producer
Scott Berrie
Producer
Robin Yigit Smith
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Joshua A. Green
Producer
Thane Rosenbaum
Producer
Chris Donnelly
Producer
Michael Kantor
Executive Producer
Tom Hurwitz
Director Of Photography
Anthony Ripoli
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By Sidney Lumet Ratings & Reviews
Spectrum Culture
Kristen Lopez
A necessity for anyone interested in analyzing Lumet's work or those just interested in watching good films.
Groucho Reviews
Peter Canavese
Like Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow's De Palma (also released in 2016), by Sidney Lumet has one undeniable result: it instills a fervent wish to watch the director's entire output from beginning to end... [Blu-ray]
rogercatlin.com
Roger Catlin
It's a great body of work and a satisfying biography.
San Francisco Chronicle
David Wiegand
The film is fascinating and important as it is, and Buirski made the right decision in focusing largely on the Anker interviews with Lumet.
Wall Street Journal
Dorothy Rabinowitz
[Lumet] had come to understand how some in Hollywood had ended up cooperating with investigators and giving them names. A characteristically blunt assessment of reality-a kind of which this portrait is full, as it is of warmth and wit.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
It's the kind of documentary that might serve as a perfect introduction to Lumet's work; when it's done, you want to watch all of these films immediately.
Los Angeles Times
Justin Chang
It allows Lumet to remind us, in his own voice, of the passion in his ostensible dispassion - the way he deftly subsumed self-expression within the brisk rhythms of his material and the superb performances of his actors.
NYC Movie Guru
Avi Offer
Anyone who's looking for a more profound peak behind the curtain, both intellectually and emotionally, will be left underwhelmed and disappointed.
The Hollywood Reporter
David Rooney
The abundance of clips here are deftly chosen and play remarkably well out of context.
RogerEbert.com
Brian Tallerico
It is beautifully constructed, not as a chronological biography of a directorial legend but as a thematic exploration of his work.
NY1-TV
Neil Rosen
Filled with an abundance of film clips from Lumet's vast body of work and interesting behind the scenes stories from Lumet, the movie will mainly be of interest to film buffs and fans of the heralded directors movies.
Entertainment Weekly
Chris Nashawaty
Makes the case for Lumet not only as one of the Hollywood greats, but also one of its rare filmmakers of conscience-a passionate storyteller whose films wrestle with dilemmas of decency, justice, and fairness.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Mr. Lumet comes across as a mensch, but he was also a complex artist whose often literally dark films were filled with shadows, rage and spit, not just nobility.
Village Voice
Sam Weisberg
Shares the flaws of Lumet's own movies: It's workmanlike and impassioned, but ultimately preaching to the choir.
The Film Stage
Tony Hinds
It's an enthralling film, very much worthy of its skillful subject.
AV Club
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
By Sidney Lumet has no clue how to make a case for its subject's movies. Lumet (filmed in 2008, some years before his death) can't separate good from bad in his work, and neither can director Nancy Buirski.
Observer
Rex Reed
A fascinating exploration of how a great mind worked by allowing the quality of his scripts to determine the style of each film-including not only the inner life but the camera, the clothes, the entire visual approach.
New York Daily News
Ethan Sacks
Over its one hour and 43-minute running time, the doc rewards true film nerds plenty of nuggets.
Slant Magazine
Clayton Dillard
Its strength lies in taking a thematic approach to Lumet's work, which prevents a chronological rattling off of one title after another.
Variety
Owen Gleiberman
The movie is simply Lumet and his films, which turns out to be an astonishingly satisfying experience, because he's an incredible talker, with the same earthy electric push that powers his work.
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