"Network" alone would have secured his place as one of the greatest film directors.

[tzikeh]

Lucky for us, he made lots of others.

Sidney Lumet dies at 86.

Comments

[irisbleufic.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen Network yet, but it's on my LoveFilm queue!

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

I have to warn you that it's dated, but not in the way that you think.

At the time (1976) it was this awful, dystopian view of where television news was headed--how it was deteriorating.

Today, not only is it eerily prophetic, but television "news" programs are so far past everything Chayefsky came up with that it's almost quaint. Which is horrific.

(It's also fucking hilarious and brilliantly done.)

[leviathan0999.livejournal.com]

I hate that going on through adulthood means witnessing the ends of all these titans in our world. It's like being the hero in the last line of Arthur C. Clarke's "The Nine Billion Names of God:" Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

I don't understand how all of these people keep getting older and dying and like, who is going to be them now?

(Though I really hope it's not as bad as Nine Billion Names, because um... yeah.)

[klia.livejournal.com]

My favorites of his films are Serpico, Prince of the City, and Deathtrap.

[slb44.livejournal.com]

"I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more!"

[stevenglassman.livejournal.com]

I did not see this. I am saddened.