Showing posts with label "Night Falls in Manhattan". Show all posts
Showing posts with label "Night Falls in Manhattan". Show all posts

Monday, April 11, 2011

Sidney Lumet, superstar


Funny thing about Sidney Lumet: For all his outstanding achievements as a director, Night Falls in Manhattan (1997) is the only one of his films that I recall actually being hyped as "a Sidney Lumet film." Even in the trailers. Note how four of his masterworks are used in the above clip to publicize a film that more or less bills him -- not Andy Garcia, Richard Dreyfuss, Ian Holm or any other on-screen talent involved -- as its real star.