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...combination of hubris and stupidity - does not come along every day, even for protean performers like Hoffman. Yet here he is, deadly calm and dead-pan hilarious as Andy, the meanest man in the world, in what may be (slightly more arguably) the meanest movie in the world, Sidney Lumet's Before the Devil Knows You're Dead...
...family. Stop to think of it and you realize that Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, which was written in poisoned ink by Kelly Masterson, is some kind of ultimate answer to the "family values" poppycock that has polluted our socio-political discussions for so many years. But Lumet doesn't give us a lot of time for philosophical musings. This is the 83-year-old director's 45th film, and like all the best of them (Serpico, Prince of the City, The Verdict) he just keeps driving his story along. Notoriously a fast director - the kind...
...think, by his wintery eye. It would have been easy to turn this movie into a black comedy, but Lumet is not having any of that (indeed, he has not generally been at his best in overtly comic pieces). Neither is he a conscious moralist. He is, at heart, a melodramatist, pushing an intricate story along smartly, but never in a rushed or hasty manner. He is one of those blessed directors who first knows what he wants and then quickly recognizes when he's got it. His last movie, Find Me Guilty, a wild take on an endless Mafia...
...wanted to learn about Deutch’s directorial debut “Pretty in Pink” and Thompson’s star-making turn in “Back to the Future.” Commenting on his film’s success, Deutch paraphrased director Sidney Lumet. “‘When I was doing movies in the fifties, I didn’t know it was the Golden Age of movies,’” said Deutch, quoting Lumet. “That’s what it was like with...
...gallery of extras. Those include a two-hour video conversation from 1993 between Kurosawa and Japanese director Nagisa Oshima, documentaries on the making of the film and on Kurosawa's influences, and a booklet with genuinely useful essays by Kurosawa scholars and tributes from directors Arthur Penn and Sidney Lumet...