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5 days ago · Features and reviews. The uncomfortable Cassavetes: 50 years of A Woman Under the Influence. Starring Gena Rowlands as a woman of disintegrating mental health, John Cassavetes’ 50-year-old drama breaks cinematic convention to create an experience of profound intensity and discomfort. 1 July 2024. A Woman Under the Influence (1974) By Chloe Walker.
2 days ago · In this first in Lumet’s run of great New York movies, much of the action is captured and presented through surveillance apparatus – audio recordings, lip readings, 16mm stakeout footage. It all makes for a prescient look at an American surveillance state in the making, while Quincy Jones’ synth score – and Christopher Walken in his ...
1 day ago · Sidney Lumet’s searing biopic features a career-best performance from Al Pacino as Frank Serpico – seemingly the only honest cop in his section of the NYPD during the ’60s and early ’70s. Pacino’s Serpico is a fascinating paradox, his straight arrow integrity contrasting with his man-of-the-people appearance and bohemian lifestyle.
4 days ago · Polaroids from Michael Powell’s unmade Kensington romance. The Loving Eye was to be a voyeuristic romance starring Paul Scofield and Moira Shearer. These bittersweet pre-production images ”make me laugh and weep at one and the same time,” wrote Powell. 2 July 2024.
4 days ago · DUNNE: I like books by filmmakers, like Eli Kazan’s “A Life” and Sidney Lumet’s “Making Movies,” which is one of the most perfect books about directing, but I haven’t read the ...
2 days ago · As Geoffrey Cocks points out, Kubrick had turned down an offer to direct a film version of Edgar Wallant's novel The Pawnbroker (1961), taken on instead by Sidney Lumet and released in 1964 (Citation 2004: 158).
1 day ago · Días de cine Días de Cine: Centenario Sidney Lumet. El 25 de junio se cumplían 100 años del nacimiento Sidney Lumet, director de títulos tan importantes como "12 hombres sin piedad", "Serpico
