Sidney Lumet interview on "Making Movies" (1995)

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  • Director Sidney Lumet, known for "12 Angry Men," shares his book, "Making Movies," about the technique and job of filmmaking.
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  • @lastdays9163
    @lastdays9163 ปีที่แล้ว +30

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

    • @westofley
      @westofley 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @michaszeremeta4745
    @michaszeremeta4745 7 ปีที่แล้ว +118

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

    • @dylanthrillmour866
      @dylanthrillmour866 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

    • @andybaldman
      @andybaldman 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

    • @QuinnYouTube
      @QuinnYouTube 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @andybaldman
      @andybaldman 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@QuinnTH-cam What does that mean?

    • @komojiro7397
      @komojiro7397 ปีที่แล้ว +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 6 ปีที่แล้ว +54

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

    • @sidraiz22
      @sidraiz22 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      watch 12 angry men as well!

    • @artygunnar
      @artygunnar 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @tjchesney4997
      @tjchesney4997 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @ricardocantoral7672
      @ricardocantoral7672 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      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 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ricardocantoral7672 what a dumb assessment lol

  • @agaogluverse6140
    @agaogluverse6140 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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 💌

  • @jobhd1199
    @jobhd1199 7 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    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.

    • @blinkzone1
      @blinkzone1 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      I love CGI btw

  • @mariobabbo3497
    @mariobabbo3497 ปีที่แล้ว +9

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

  • @themadafaka6839
    @themadafaka6839 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @voicegirl555
    @voicegirl555 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    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 ปีที่แล้ว

      Marty is better

    • @voicegirl555
      @voicegirl555 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @LYCANCLANTEAM
      @LYCANCLANTEAM 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @voicegirl555
      @voicegirl555 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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 ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

  • @michaelangileo2760
    @michaelangileo2760 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

    • @James_Bowie
      @James_Bowie 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Norman Wexler screenplay. 👍

  • @saccomovies
    @saccomovies ปีที่แล้ว +2

    One of my all time favorite filmmakers.

  • @jimmyfigueras4476
    @jimmyfigueras4476 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @florentfincoeurpirlet216
    @florentfincoeurpirlet216 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

  • @NoName-jq7tj
    @NoName-jq7tj 2 ปีที่แล้ว +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.

  • @minavamp2811
    @minavamp2811 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

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

    • @LS-ki9ft
      @LS-ki9ft 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

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

  • @maxipazz8214
    @maxipazz8214 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Orient express is a masterpiece of direction and acting

  • @jamelwest2586
    @jamelwest2586 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @ssmv71
    @ssmv71 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Great stuff - love “The Verdict”

  • @savedfaves
    @savedfaves 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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.

  • @brentulstad3275
    @brentulstad3275 2 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @billielachatte4841
    @billielachatte4841 7 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Network n 12 Angry Men r my favorite.

    • @brynleyjones2674
      @brynleyjones2674 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      12 angry men imao is the greatest film of all time

  • @TemakiTom
    @TemakiTom 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

  • @HomeAtLast501
    @HomeAtLast501 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    "The Pawnbroker" was phenomenal. Devastating.

  • @anthonyjona7779
    @anthonyjona7779 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @paulstone6979
    @paulstone6979 5 ปีที่แล้ว +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.

  • @STWRITES1
    @STWRITES1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

  • @marcopieri6796
    @marcopieri6796 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Grandissimo regista. Tra i più grandi della storia

  • @lazyhead4382
    @lazyhead4382 5 ปีที่แล้ว +28

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

    • @QuinnYouTube
      @QuinnYouTube 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      You're a bafoon, you focus on the bad

  • @AshPragasam
    @AshPragasam 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Such a great book

  • @parmesanballz4631
    @parmesanballz4631 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Fucking GENIUS

  • @brotherchason
    @brotherchason 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @Jack-ik5lh
    @Jack-ik5lh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

    • @tjlaviolette
      @tjlaviolette 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      How is it?

    • @Jack-ik5lh
      @Jack-ik5lh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      tjlaviolette oh it’s great

    • @tjlaviolette
      @tjlaviolette 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Excellent..thanks!

    • @alexlackner1945
      @alexlackner1945 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @ricardocantoral7672
    @ricardocantoral7672 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The Hill is my favorite Lumet film.

  • @alcd6333
    @alcd6333 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    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 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sobering perspective. Why entertainment today drives me to drink.

    • @alexlackner1945
      @alexlackner1945 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @ricardocantoral7672
      @ricardocantoral7672 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Scorsese won and it was for one his worst films.

    • @rext8949
      @rext8949 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @oobrocks
    @oobrocks ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Network is 1 of the best dramas ever produced

  • @didierlambert6574
    @didierlambert6574 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    le nombre de grands films dans sa filmographie est hallucinant!

  • @hankerino
    @hankerino 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @zingzangspillip1
    @zingzangspillip1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +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.

  • @LS-ki9ft
    @LS-ki9ft 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

    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.

  • @Mike93Gee
    @Mike93Gee 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Charlie is nervous. He must be a big fan

  • @artygunnar
    @artygunnar 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @arunpradeep4657
    @arunpradeep4657 ปีที่แล้ว

    Master.

  • @alexmacnicol-il3vj
    @alexmacnicol-il3vj 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    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.

  • @Firebrand55
    @Firebrand55 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @albertibass6521
    @albertibass6521 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

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

    • @plasticweapon
      @plasticweapon 5 ปีที่แล้ว +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 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@plasticweapon What is ham-fisted about Network?

    • @ricardocantoral7672
      @ricardocantoral7672 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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.

  • @Hank-the-Writer
    @Hank-the-Writer 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    What happened to all the referenced footage? Copyright issues?

  • @MapleSyrupPoet
    @MapleSyrupPoet 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @arthurmiller9103
    @arthurmiller9103 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Sidney lumet "making movies" 🎥

  • @ahmadeka100
    @ahmadeka100 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

  • @artygunnar
    @artygunnar 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @dheerajhazarika1836
    @dheerajhazarika1836 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @cinnamon4605
    @cinnamon4605 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "Actor's director"

  • @Frodoisagogo
    @Frodoisagogo ปีที่แล้ว

    Miss Charlie Rose

  • @renee-mariekrugkrug3989
    @renee-mariekrugkrug3989 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Well, his movies were surely interesting ...

  • @ricardocantoral7672
    @ricardocantoral7672 2 ปีที่แล้ว +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.

  • @Elusive_Pete
    @Elusive_Pete 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @09nob
    @09nob 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @andybaldman
    @andybaldman 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @laurielee2531
    @laurielee2531 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @nick_cornew
    @nick_cornew 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @anthonyjona7779
      @anthonyjona7779 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fool.

    • @nick_cornew
      @nick_cornew ปีที่แล้ว

      @@anthonyjona7779 Weird thing to call someone a fool for

  • @RGproductions100
    @RGproductions100 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So devoid of ego

  • @unknownfilmmaker777
    @unknownfilmmaker777 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @steadfastandyx4947
    @steadfastandyx4947 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Disgraceful he did not receive a best director Oscar.

  • @user-hh9rc2lw4c
    @user-hh9rc2lw4c 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @thomassimmons1950
    @thomassimmons1950 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @prant8998
    @prant8998 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Rose, as usual, talks way too much.

  • @suzettebennett2564
    @suzettebennett2564 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @manuelmanuel9248
    @manuelmanuel9248 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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