Sidney Lumet interview on "Making Movies" (1995)

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  • @lastdays9163
    @lastdays9163 2 роки тому +37

    If you're studying film or writing this is a must watch interview.

    • @westofley
      @westofley 8 місяців тому

      more than that, you should buy and read the book. It's a revelation

  • @michaszeremeta4745
    @michaszeremeta4745 8 років тому +123

    outstanding director. Many generations will have to learn to appreciate his movies.

    • @dylanthrillmour866
      @dylanthrillmour866 8 років тому +6

      Michał Szeremeta they won't learn, it'll just come naturally

    • @andybaldman
      @andybaldman 4 роки тому +4

      They'll never see them, because they'll be watching Pewdiepie, or whatever else the algorithm feeds them.

    • @QuinnYouTube
      @QuinnYouTube 4 роки тому +5

      @@andybaldman yeah everything is bad these days, everything is no good, there's no reason to be jolly

    • @andybaldman
      @andybaldman 4 роки тому +1

      @@QuinnUA-cam What does that mean?

    • @komojiro7397
      @komojiro7397 2 роки тому +3

      Just started watching Sidney Lumet’s movies. What a legend, hard to see people like him being forgotten. 12 Angry men is brilliant and Dog day afternoon seems Amazing already.

  • @wendy18o
    @wendy18o 7 років тому +57

    "Network" which I saw today is freaking amazing. Don't miss it!!

    • @sidraiz22
      @sidraiz22 4 роки тому +7

      watch 12 angry men as well!

    • @artygunnar
      @artygunnar 3 роки тому

      IM MAD!!! AND IM NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!

    • @tjchesney4997
      @tjchesney4997 3 роки тому +1

      12 Angry Men is a film for our times..check it out

    • @ricardocantoral7672
      @ricardocantoral7672 3 роки тому

      Never bought the hype. Network is just a series of overwrought monologues from beginning to end. The movie wears you out long before it ends.

    • @mattsharkey8437
      @mattsharkey8437 2 роки тому

      @@ricardocantoral7672 what a dumb assessment lol

  • @agaogluverse6140
    @agaogluverse6140 7 місяців тому +2

    As a young person who is passionate about storytelling/filmmaking and trying to make short films, it is a great privilege to study Mr. Lumet's films. He is a true gentleman. An intellectual, creative and compassionate person who speaks with great insight about his craft, his life and the artists he worked with. R.I.P for the legend! What a great artist to look up to, I love you Mr. Lumet 💌

  • @mariobabbo3497
    @mariobabbo3497 2 роки тому +10

    He was an icon in cinema, and a man who can change filmmaking with attitude

  • @jobhd1199
    @jobhd1199 8 років тому +57

    Lumet was a master at trusting his instincts, but that also came from the amazing lab of the 1950s NY scene that produced so much amazing talent ranging from Brando, Dean, Newman, Steiger, Frankenheimer and of course Lumet. Playhouse 90 alone pushed these guys to the edge of creativity. That environment doesn't exist today in the same way but I believe there is hope as we will sooner or later get over the computer stuff and start demanding the human experience again and great directors will start shaping.

  • @voicegirl555
    @voicegirl555 4 роки тому +27

    The greatest director ever! The best New York director who ever walked. He has been gone 9 years now and is so missed! 12 Angry Men is one of my favorite films. It amaze me every time I see it. The direction. The actors! All of them terrific from beginning to end! What a movie that is!!! He made the film A View From A Bridge in 1962. I saw it once and so hope that it is put on DVD someday! It is the only play Arthur Miller wrote that I like. His version of Murder On The Orient Express is the best version made. I don't care what anyone says. Serpico! Dog Day Afternoon! No director uses New York the way he has done. Yeah, I know Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese film in New York, but they are not Sidney Lumet! Mr. Lumet Thank You So Much For All the Films You Left Behind!!

    • @LYCANCLANTEAM
      @LYCANCLANTEAM 2 роки тому

      Marty is better

    • @voicegirl555
      @voicegirl555 2 роки тому

      @@LYCANCLANTEAM I don't understand your comment about Marty.

    • @LYCANCLANTEAM
      @LYCANCLANTEAM 2 роки тому

      @@voicegirl555 u said he is the best new yorkan director which is subjective. I merely said scorsese is better

    • @voicegirl555
      @voicegirl555 2 роки тому

      @@LYCANCLANTEAM Oh! Well I like Scorsese too, but too me Sidney Lumet is the King when it comes to using NEW YORK on film.

    • @voicegirl555
      @voicegirl555 2 роки тому

      I am sure that a lot of people agree with you and a lot agree with me. They are both wonderful directors of New York filming.

  • @NoName-jq7tj
    @NoName-jq7tj 3 роки тому +4

    Brilliant. Really brilliant. One of best interviews I’ve seen. Such an underrated director. I love the part when Rose asks him “Coppola hasn’t made a good film for a while” The answer mmmm mmm. It was almost like Lumet was thinking what I’m getting in to here.

  • @jimmyfigueras4476
    @jimmyfigueras4476 2 роки тому +3

    What a charming man and wonderful director who made outstanding movies, "Running on Empty" being one of my favorites of his. Sidney "Lumiere". :)

  • @jamelwest2586
    @jamelwest2586 2 роки тому +3

    My favorite filmmaker of all time. A supreme American artist!

  • @savedfaves
    @savedfaves 3 роки тому +4

    He mentioned liking Hoop Dreams. I love, love, love how Hoop Dreams is shot and the look of it. It's looks a bit like an actual dream; impressionistic.

  • @michaelangileo2760
    @michaelangileo2760 2 роки тому +6

    "Serpico" is a fantastic movie. Superb director !!

    • @James_Bowie
      @James_Bowie 6 місяців тому

      Norman Wexler screenplay. 👍

  • @florentfincoeurpirlet216
    @florentfincoeurpirlet216 2 роки тому +4

    what a man, loved the book - the perfect no film school book

  • @saccomovies
    @saccomovies Рік тому +2

    One of my all time favorite filmmakers.

  • @ssmv71
    @ssmv71 7 років тому +11

    Great stuff - love “The Verdict”

  • @JasonRamasami
    @JasonRamasami 5 днів тому

    I loved this. Thankyou.

  • @themadafaka6839
    @themadafaka6839 4 роки тому +13

    my top 5 of his movies:
    5 Serpico
    4 12 Angry Men
    3 Network
    2 Murder on the Orient Express
    1 Dog Day Afternoon
    he's one of the greats, for damn sure.

    • @stefanoguarini4710
      @stefanoguarini4710 2 роки тому +2

      5, 4, 3 and 1 are all great movies, but he has done much better than 2. Also his last movie is amazing.

  • @TemakiTom
    @TemakiTom Рік тому +3

    Just his talking about hotels in different cities, and their homogeny, goes to show you how ahead of the time he was.

  • @billielachatte4841
    @billielachatte4841 8 років тому +21

    Network n 12 Angry Men r my favorite.

    • @brynleyjones2674
      @brynleyjones2674 5 років тому +2

      12 angry men imao is the greatest film of all time

  • @Film-Watcher12
    @Film-Watcher12 27 днів тому

    12 Angry Men was so good. Lumet is a great director

  • @marcopieri6796
    @marcopieri6796 5 років тому +2

    Grandissimo regista. Tra i più grandi della storia

  • @paulstone6979
    @paulstone6979 6 років тому +7

    Sidney Lumet was a great director. Some of my favorites of his 12 Angry Men, Long Days Journey Into Night, Sirpico, Dog Day Afernoon, and Network.

  • @anthonyjona7779
    @anthonyjona7779 2 роки тому +2

    Prince of the City was fantastic movie, also very underrated.

  • @minavamp2811
    @minavamp2811 2 роки тому +9

    he is so prolific. from 1957 to 1999. he makes 1 movie a year continuously. that is insane.

    • @LS-ki9ft
      @LS-ki9ft 5 місяців тому

      Never directed a bad movie. This man should have won several Best Director awards.

  • @maxipazz8214
    @maxipazz8214 4 роки тому +11

    Orient express is a masterpiece of direction and acting

  • @brentulstad3275
    @brentulstad3275 2 роки тому +4

    I don't necessarily agree with Tarantino on his "only 10 films" personal philosophy, but as he's stated there is some truth to older directors succumbing to decline. Not doing their best work towards the end. However, when I finally came across Before The Devil Knows You're Dead a few years ago, I was incredibly impressed and was wondering why I hadn't been turned on to this movie sooner. Lumet was definitely one of the few who kept to a creative vision and ended his career with a unique and authentic film. Also showcasing some incredible performances and particularly memorable ones from Philip Seymour Hoffman & Albert Finney.

    • @ricardocantoral7672
      @ricardocantoral7672 2 роки тому +1

      John Huston was a rare exception as well. He did some of his best work in the last 15 years of his life.

  • @HomeAtLast501
    @HomeAtLast501 4 роки тому +5

    "The Pawnbroker" was phenomenal. Devastating.

  • @brotherchason
    @brotherchason 3 роки тому +1

    Wow that story about exhaustion as it pertains to Dog Day Afternoon is wild and inspiring

  • @STWRITES1
    @STWRITES1 5 років тому +4

    I read this in1995. I rate it with "Adventures in the Screen Trade" and "The Kid Stays in the P{picture."

  • @lazyhead4382
    @lazyhead4382 6 років тому +29

    Taste is most certainly waning... Ahead of his time

    • @QuinnYouTube
      @QuinnYouTube 4 роки тому

      You're a bafoon, you focus on the bad

  • @Jack-ik5lh
    @Jack-ik5lh 4 роки тому +9

    I’m in the middle of his book “Making Movies”

    • @tjlaviolette
      @tjlaviolette 4 роки тому

      How is it?

    • @Jack-ik5lh
      @Jack-ik5lh 4 роки тому +1

      tjlaviolette oh it’s great

    • @tjlaviolette
      @tjlaviolette 4 роки тому

      Excellent..thanks!

    • @al1976-v7m
      @al1976-v7m 3 роки тому +1

      I've got the book for years, should finally read it, seems like a quick read anyway

  • @ricardocantoral7672
    @ricardocantoral7672 3 роки тому +1

    The Hill is my favorite Lumet film.

  • @hankerino
    @hankerino 4 роки тому +1

    1995-96 I was a wayward youth indicating my way through life.

  • @oobrocks
    @oobrocks 2 роки тому +1

    Network is 1 of the best dramas ever produced

  • @AshPragasam
    @AshPragasam 5 років тому +1

    Such a great book

  • @LS-ki9ft
    @LS-ki9ft 5 місяців тому

    It's robbery that this man never won an Academy Award for any of his movies. Nominated many times, but never won. One of the best directors ever.

  • @Hank-the-Writer
    @Hank-the-Writer 6 років тому +4

    What happened to all the referenced footage? Copyright issues?

  • @zingzangspillip1
    @zingzangspillip1 5 років тому +14

    It's interesting that Sidney blames television for the decline in cinematic tastes. Only a few years after the interview, The Sopranos became a smash hit and the new TV universe was created. Now the best dramas are made for TV, and as has been said before here, popular cinema has become filled with vacuous blockbusters.

  • @Mike93Gee
    @Mike93Gee 4 роки тому +4

    Charlie is nervous. He must be a big fan

  • @didierlambert6574
    @didierlambert6574 5 років тому +1

    le nombre de grands films dans sa filmographie est hallucinant!

  • @alcd6333
    @alcd6333 6 років тому +12

    He was one of the great directors who never won an Oscar. Others include: Hitchcock, Kubrick, Frankenheimer, Arthur Penn, Stanley Kramer, Irving Kershner, and Alan Parker. Parker may have a chance - he's still alive.
    Today's movies are mostly sequels and remakes loaded with CGIs and rapid editing. Hollywood cannot tell a good story anymore so they try to compensate with overblown special effects.

    • @m.valentinesmith4845
      @m.valentinesmith4845 4 роки тому

      Sobering perspective. Why entertainment today drives me to drink.

    • @al1976-v7m
      @al1976-v7m 3 роки тому

      Hitchcock has never won an Oscar, really?! :o

    • @ricardocantoral7672
      @ricardocantoral7672 3 роки тому +1

      Scorsese won and it was for one his worst films.

    • @rext8949
      @rext8949 2 роки тому

      The oscar is just an industrial political statement which does not reflect accurately on the merits.

  • @arunpradeep4657
    @arunpradeep4657 2 роки тому +1

    Master.

  • @arthurmiller9103
    @arthurmiller9103 8 місяців тому +1

    Sidney lumet "making movies" 🎥

  • @artygunnar
    @artygunnar 3 роки тому +2

    somehow we went from this to jj abrams and zack snyder and riah johnson

  • @jaredf921
    @jaredf921 5 місяців тому

    Why is Sidney’s name misspelled?

  • @MapleSyrupPoet
    @MapleSyrupPoet 2 роки тому

    I would work for Sidney, anytime ...no questions ...money? Don't matter 🎭🎰🎑

  • @Firebrand55
    @Firebrand55 4 роки тому +3

    Wanna watch excellent movies?....if Lumet made it, watch it.

  • @ahmadeka100
    @ahmadeka100 3 роки тому +8

    He is blaming TV for the deterioration of people taste... what if he saw what phones are doing now 😂😂😂😂😂

  • @simpdown1404
    @simpdown1404 2 місяці тому

    Hall Of Fame Director

  • @artygunnar
    @artygunnar 3 роки тому

    Imagine 12 angry men being your first movie!!!!!!

  • @albertibass6521
    @albertibass6521 6 років тому +15

    Network is one of the most prophetic films ever made. Cheyefsky was Nostradamus.

    • @plasticweapon
      @plasticweapon 5 років тому +1

      yeah, a nostradamus that was 20 years late to the party. watch "a face in the crowd" or "will success spoil rock hunter" (both 1957). THEY were prophetic, and they weren't corny, ham fisted bullshit like "network".

    • @andybaldman
      @andybaldman 4 роки тому +1

      @@plasticweapon What is ham-fisted about Network?

    • @ricardocantoral7672
      @ricardocantoral7672 3 роки тому

      @@andybaldman The better question is, what isn't it ham fisted about ? From beginning to end, the film is just a showcase of actors stomping and screaming about how they all deceive us all, America is owned by corporations, etc. I don't necessarily disagree with Network's message, the problem is the delivery is as subtle as a sledgehammer going through a plate glass window. Chafesky's script is so humorless and blunt, you get worn out practically at the beginning of the film. You don't need to watch the movie after after the famous "I'm Mad as Hell" monologue. Face in The Crowd, more or less, went after the same target almost twenty years earlier and it was a far better movie.

    • @andybaldman
      @andybaldman 3 роки тому

      @@ricardocantoral7672 Who says the message needs to be delivered subtly? Sometimes a hammer through a plate glass window is what you need to get people's attention. You also need the rest of the movie, to give context to Howard Beale's multiple 'rant' scenes (of which the 'I'm mad as hell' one is just one). Without that, those scenes (which are key to the film) would make no sense. You'd think he was just another crazy person.
      Also, why does it need humor? It isn't a comedy. It's an intense film, and I think that was the point, because the message is important. And maybe if more people had listened back then, we wouldn't be living in the corporate dystopian hell that we have today.

    • @ricardocantoral7672
      @ricardocantoral7672 2 роки тому

      @@andybaldman The message wears thin when it's being delivered bluntly over and over again throughout the film. That really just shows a lack of creativity Secondly, I think you failed to pick up on the fact that Network is a satire and tries to be humorous at times and fails a lot. The film isn't a film, it's just a filmed stage play with Paddy Chayfesky screaming at the top of his lungs via talented actors that deliver one hammy monologue after another.

  • @Orf
    @Orf 9 днів тому

    8:00 every hotel is owned by the same people…homogeneity is going to destroy us

  • @alex_macnicol
    @alex_macnicol 5 місяців тому +1

    Obviously an amazing interview. Not the main point for sure, but the discussion around 6:30 really struck me as a 2024 viewer. It seems every single generation we bemoan the fact that we are no longer producing great artists and intellectuals, when that is clearly untrue. If you think of all of the transformative works of fiction, film and art that have been produced since 1995, not to mention the intellectual/technological developments, you realize how silly this type of talk is. And yet we still do this today. We sit around and complain that something special about creation and insight that we once possessed has been lost to modernity, not realizing that the greatest works of human creation continue to be done and out done each and every year.

    • @knownpleasures
      @knownpleasures 2 місяці тому

      He seems to be saying that television has or is destroying cinema. He’s wrong. They actually enhance each other based on the quality of television over the last 30 years which is actually excellent.

  • @cinnamon4605
    @cinnamon4605 6 років тому +3

    "Actor's director"

  • @Frodoisagogo
    @Frodoisagogo Рік тому

    Miss Charlie Rose

  • @Elusive_Pete
    @Elusive_Pete 5 років тому +1

    He sounds like Spielberg.. or is it the other way around?

  • @renee-mariekrugkrug3989
    @renee-mariekrugkrug3989 8 років тому +5

    Well, his movies were surely interesting ...

  • @ricardocantoral7672
    @ricardocantoral7672 3 роки тому +2

    I recently saw Prince of The City and it was phenomenal. Sadly, it received none the acclaim Serpico did even though it's a superior film.

  • @dheerajhazarika1836
    @dheerajhazarika1836 5 років тому +3

    12 angry men, dog day afternoon, network, serpico, the verdict...and no competitive Oscar...can’t believe !

  • @andybaldman
    @andybaldman 4 роки тому

    8:13 If he could only see how much worse it's gotten now.

  • @laurielee2531
    @laurielee2531 Рік тому

    Married like 4 times and attributes his success to luck. 😂

  • @09nob
    @09nob 3 роки тому

    I wonder what he would think of the current culture and its Twitter hive-mind.

  • @jeffbeamer9882
    @jeffbeamer9882 2 місяці тому

    So interested in Sidney Lumet but I cannot listen to Charlie Rose. Never have liked him. Turned out I was right.

  • @RGproductions100
    @RGproductions100 2 роки тому +1

    So devoid of ego

  • @prant8998
    @prant8998 4 роки тому +1

    Rose, as usual, talks way too much.

  • @thomassimmons1950
    @thomassimmons1950 3 роки тому

    The culture's been captured by Broads and Blacks.... FUGGHEDABOUDIT!

  • @steadfastandyx4947
    @steadfastandyx4947 Рік тому +1

    Disgraceful he did not receive a best director Oscar.

  • @Rucky-q3r
    @Rucky-q3r 11 місяців тому

    Is there anything more boring than a bad hamlet? great opinion!

  • @unknownfilmmaker777
    @unknownfilmmaker777 5 років тому

    I dislike the idea of driving actors to exhaustion and confusion. They are actors; direct them to act appropriately. That's your job.

  • @nick_cornew
    @nick_cornew 3 роки тому

    Some parts of this is good but others is two old men being old men

  • @manuelmanuel9248
    @manuelmanuel9248 4 роки тому +2

    Rose interrupts too much. Why doest he just interview himself?

  • @suzettebennett2564
    @suzettebennett2564 4 роки тому

    Sidney Lumet is with an i masculine form and y is feminine.