Sidney Lumet, director energetic and versatile and innovative Hollywood craftsman of American cinema in the 70's, we are left to age 86 years, having shot over 70 films in which not only directed but also got the most out of people like Al Pacino, Marlon Brando, Paul Newman, Katherine Hepburn, Lauren Bacall, William Holden, Albert Finney, Anna Magnani, John Cazale or Michael Caine, titles that have become references in their genre with enormous narrative gifts and their brave and ferrous scripts.
Lumet has some of the peaks of the trial film ("The Verdict") heist ("Dog Day Afternoon"), the police ("Serpico"), the thriller "whodunit" ("Murder on the Orient Express ") or political drama (" Network ") and film career greatness can be summed up to perfection according to their first and last film, the perfect" 12 Angry Men "(1957) and the rabid and modern," Before The Devil Knows You're Dead "(2007).
It's another great film director, who was always able to to empathize with the audience and in which only lacked a greater recognition of their own industry, which awarded him the honorary Oscar in 2004. Let's review 7 of his best moments before giving the final goodbye.
"12 Angry Men" and moral tension in four walls "
" Dog Day Afternoon "; nerve seventies
"Network, an unforgiving world," the power of television
"Verdict" trial rehabilitation
"Serpico" corruption in the body
"Murder on the Orient Express", guess who
"The Death Trap" theatrical entertainment
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