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...times dizzying (at one point even the puppets are wielding their own marionette puppets), Huyghe’s meta-narratives of realization may be the most compelling aspect of the project. In previous works—including his most famous, Third Memory, based on the 1975 Sidney Lumet film Dog Day Afternoon—Huyghe has utilized the cinematic device of the jump cut to fold into a linear whole quite disparate points in time and space...
...British stage star and Oscar-winning film actress; in London. A regal woman with a rich voice, Hiller was George Bernard Shaw's leading lady, first as Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion and then, most memorably, in Major Barbara. Her aristocratic bearing served her well as a tourist in Sidney Lumet's Murder on the Orient Express and as the elegant widow in the London stage version of Driving Miss Daisy...
Turns out Network was just a joke. Sidney Lumet, the director of that scathing satire of TV, has adapted his social-issues subject matter into a talky, intriguing, if spotty, series about New York City courts. The dialogue can be as heavyhanded as, well, a Sidney Lumet picture. But Alan Arkin is powerful yet subtle as a liberal judge under attack for setting free a petty crook who then kills a cop. Worth putting on your docket for a probationary period...
...instantly notorious first public comment on John Lennon's murder in December 1980 - "It's a drag" - was at the time held up as an example of gross insensitivity by an estranged friend. In reality it was the understatement of devastation. There's a telling line in Sidney Lumet's 1983 film "Daniel" - a fictionalized account of the struggles of the two children of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. "Why don't you console her?" asks someone about the suicidal daughter at one point. The answer: "Did it ever occur to you that she might be inconsolable...
...Warner Bros. set in Los Angeles isn't a NORAD bunker. But the similarity is no accident. When executive producer George Clooney and crew re-create Sidney Lumet's 1964 nuclear chiller Fail-Safe, with CBS execs and director Stephen Frears (High Fidelity, Dangerous Liaisons) watching nervously from a trailer outside, they'll be facing another cold war-era specter: live television. Airing at 9 p.m. E.T. (delayed P.T.), this pet project of Clooney, a longtime lover of live TV whose father Nick was a newsman and variety-show host, will be CBS's first theatrical production in 39 years...