Sidney Lumet was known as an “actor’s director”— meaning actors loved to work with him due to his penchant for giving actors long soliloquies and shooting them in broad, respectful takes. As point of contrast, consider the Coen Brothers’ films or the recent “Hell or High Water” as pictures in which the screenplays are the real stars and the actors take an appropriate backseat to the scripts.
Twelve Angry Men
Twelve Angry Men
Twelve Angry Men
Sidney Lumet was known as an “actor’s director”— meaning actors loved to work with him due to his penchant for giving actors long soliloquies and shooting them in broad, respectful takes. As point of contrast, consider the Coen Brothers’ films or the recent “Hell or High Water” as pictures in which the screenplays are the real stars and the actors take an appropriate backseat to the scripts.