Sidney Lumet at 100: The Essential Movies From an American Master

The Big Picture

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Tv & Film

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🗓️ 30 July 2024

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Sean and Amanda are joined by Chris Ryan to commemorate the career of one of America’s greatest directors, Sidney Lumet. They talk about him as a person, his path to becoming a workman director, his methodology, and his standout moments (1:00) before going through his entire filmography and choosing the 10 most essential entries in the canon (43:00). Then, they each share their five personal favorites (1:37:00). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guest: Chris Ryan Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Join me, Danny Kelly and Danny Hyfeits on the Ringer Fantasy Football Show,
0:05.1	for all things, fantasy, NFL, and more.
0:07.4	But that time you say, Join Me, Danny Kelly, it sounds like you're Danny Kelly.
0:11.2	It's join me, Craig Hurlbeck, and Danie. Right, right, right, right, right, right, right, okay.
0:15.6	Join me Craig Horalbeck as well as Danny High Fitz and Danny Kelly.
0:22.0	Nice.
0:23.0	Thank you.
0:24.0	For all things, Fantasy, NFL, and more on the Ringer Fantasy
0:27.0	Football show.
0:28.0	Boom! I'm Sean Fennesey I'm Amanda Dobbins and this is the big picture a
0:37.2	conversation show about Sydney Lumet CR Chris Ryan is here with us today hi Chris
0:41.8	how's it going?
0:42.5	Great to see you.
0:43.5	Thank you for joining us for this very special episode of the big picture.
0:46.5	We are celebrating one of the great makers of movies in the history of cinema.
0:50.9	He would have been 100 years old this year in fact last month
0:53.4	Sydney Lummett one of my favorite directors he's come up I would say intermittently
0:59.0	over the run of this show but we've never really had chance to talk about him at in-depth really ever yeah so I thought it would be fun as I prepared to go on a vacation to do an evergreen episode about a legend of cinema. Yeah.
1:13.0	So, Amanda, I'll start with you.
1:15.0	Yeah, we're also correcting a little bit here because like the fact that he doesn't come up that much
1:21.0	is a little bit on us and a little bit on I guess like the way that we
1:26.9	the three of us but really the world at large talk about movies and the fact that we don't appreciate just like a stone cold capable genius.
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