Roaden Polynice
Superstar
12 Angry MenGonna watch that again soon
Network was also amazing, haven't watched it since highschool though
Holy shyt, I didn't even know he did Before The Devil Knows You're Dead and Dog Day Afternoon.
Wait a second....why isn't this breh in GOAT conversations?![]()
That's what I'm saying.
I think it's because he was prolific and he didn't have an easily identifiable style to his films. You could be unknowingly watching one of his movies but you'll never hear anyone be like, "yep this is a Lumet film" whereas you hear that over and over with your Spielberg's, Tarantino's, Scorsese's etc etc.
Though in his book he has a whole chapter dedicated to style and what it means for film and he talks about how the best style is style that goes undetected or that isn't very noticeable. And speaking of Kurosawa Lumet has an anecdote about how his film Prince of the City was the most stylized film he made but every critic and review he read didn't pick up on any of it, but one of the few people who picked up on the style of the film was Kurosawa who came up to him somewhere to praise it.
So dude definitely knew what he was doing, it's just that sometimes those tangible details of films can distract us from other things going on.