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Sidney Lumet (b. 1924)

• directed television and theater before film Twelve Angry Men (1957)

• his movies have won 37 Oscar nominations, most for acting

• his films are tough, noisy and unsentimental

• his characters are distinctly ethnic

• technical innovation such as subliminal intercutting in The Pawnbroker (1965) to portray the memories of the protagonist’s experience in a Nazi concentration camp forcing their way into his consciousness

Classification of Lumet’s Films

• literary and theatrical adaptations: Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1962)

• commercial projects: Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The Wiz (1978)

• gritty social dramas set in New York: The Pawnbroker (1965), Serpico (1973), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Network (1976), Prince of the City (1981)

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