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Shot on location on New York's energetic and crime-filled streets, Sidney Lumet's SERPICO, based on Peter Maas's book, is a rousing portrait of courage in the face of insidious corruption, initiating a motif that Lumet would continue to mine in PRINCE OF THE CITY. Al Pacino is forcefully real as Frank Serpico, an independent .. Read more

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  Hollywood stars pay tribute to Lumet

  • WENN Newsdesk
  • 10 Apr 2011

  Directors Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen have paid tribute to legendary Hollywood filmmaker Sidney Lumet, who died on Saturday (09Apr11) at the age of 86. Lumet passed away at his New York home after a battle with lymphoma. A host of movie stars have paid their respects to the late Lumet, with Goodfellas director Scorsese hailing his death as the "end of an era". He says, "(Lumet was a) New York filmmaker at heart, and our vision of the city has been enhanced and deepened by classics like... Read more

  

  Pride and Glory

  • 03 Nov 2008

  There’s more pride than glory in this throwback cop drama, a movie so firmly in the tradition of heavyweight thrillers like Serpico, Prince of the City and Q and A that you would think the script must have Sidney Lumet’s fingerprints all over it. In fact it’s written by Gavin O’Connor, who made Tumbleweeds and the hockey movie Miracle, and Joe Carnahan, who made Narc and Smokin’ Aces. O’Connor came up with the story with his twin brother Greg. They’re... Read more

  

  Al Pacino given lifetime achievement award

  • 11 Jun 2007

  Movie legend Al Pacino celebrated this weekend as he was given a life achievement award by the American Film Institute. Currently starring in casino heist comedy Ocean's Thirteen, the man known to many as Michael Corleone was at a loss for words when he accepted the prize, watched by peers such as Andy Garcia, Robin Williams and JFK director Oliver Stone. Other attendees at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood watched a compilation of clips from Pacino's repertoire of classic films, including Serpico, Read more

  

  Ocean's Thirteen

  • 06 Jun 2007

  If Danny Ocean and co frittered away a lot of their gloss in the irritatingly frivolous Ocean's Twelve, Thirteen restores much of the original luster. It's a stylish, confident caper movie that cruises along for two hours without breaking into a sweat. The crew's second reunion is occasioned by the collapse of an ailing Reuben (Elliott Gould), cheated out of a partnership in a new Vegas hotel by the ruthless casino magnate Willie Banks (Al Pacino). To square things up, Danny and the boys... Read more

  

  Before The Devil Know's You're Dead

  • 08 Jan 2008

  Things fall apart, as any student of crime will tell you. And if you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans. Andy (Philip Seymour Hoffman) has a plan. He's in accounts, and he's been embezzling funds to feed his coke habit and keep his pretty wife happy, but he knows he can't go on indefinitely. What he doesn't know, is Gina (Marisa Tomei) has been two-timing him with his brother Hank (Ethan Hawke). If he had an inkling, Andy might have laid it out differently. Or maybe not. Hank needs... Read more

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    Shot on location on New York's energetic and crime-filled streets, Sidney Lumet's SERPICO, based on Peter Maas's book, is a rousing portrait of courage in the face of insidious corruption, initiating a motif that Lumet would continue to mine in PRINCE OF THE CITY. Al Pacino is forcefully real as ...

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