Sidney Lumet

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q51559: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as other. The films the hosts said they were tied to, which the two lists below run through too: One-Eyed Jacks (1961); The Killer (2023); n/a. Count them as director (12 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

The Killer (graphic novel) (1998): 3 lines

  1. lineage (adaptation) · through The Killer (2023), which they were tied to as author of 'Making Movies' (letterbox joke): The Killer (graphic novel) ⇒ The Killer (the maker said so: interviews (Fincher 'gave some interviewers')). Fincher told interviewers he was adapting a French graphic novel about an assassin that he had always liked.
    “he gave some interviewers, like, we're working on this Chinatown thing, and then he was like, I'm also playing with adapting this French graphic novel about the assassin that I've always liked.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free) · 0:27:27 · unknown (host) (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (adaptation scope) · through The Killer (2023), which they were tied to as author of 'Making Movies' (letterbox joke): The Killer (graphic novel) ⇒ The Killer (the host's read). The film takes almost everything from the first 200-odd pages of the comic; the series ran on to 2018.
    “it feels like everything from the movie is basically taken from the 1st 200 some odd pages”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free) · 0:12:09 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (adapted from) · through The Killer (2023), which they were tied to as author of 'Making Movies' (letterbox joke): The Killer (graphic novel) ⇒ The Killer (the host's read). Paramount acquired the graphic novel in 2007; the film is Fincher's latest.
    “In 2007, Paramount acquires the rights to some little graphic novel called The Killer.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network (Ad-Free) · 0:18:42 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Andrew Kevin Walker: 1 line

  1. unmapped (idea credit) · through The Killer (2023), which they were tied to as author of 'Making Movies' (letterbox joke): Andrew Kevin Walker ⇒ The Killer (the maker said so). Fincher credits Walker with the contemporary consumerist and technology angle of the film.
    “Walker with the sort of like contemporary consumerist angle that this movie has, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free) · 0:47:20 · unknown (host) (0.30 sure it was them)

Haywire (2011): 1 line

  1. people (casting origin) · through The Killer (2023), which they were tied to as author of 'Making Movies' (letterbox joke): Haywire ⇒ The Killer (the maker said so: the Q and A at the screening). Fincher cited Haywire, with Prometheus, as the Fassbender movies that made him cast him.
    “He said it was Prometheus and Haywire, which makes sense.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free) · 1:17:06 · David Sims (0.55 sure it was them)

Jean-Pierre Melville: 1 line

  1. theme (genre ancestry) · through The Killer (2023), which they were tied to as author of 'Making Movies' (letterbox joke): Jean-Pierre Melville ⇒ The Killer (the host's read). The sparse expressionless killer film riffs on Melville, Kurosawa samurai movies and Walter Hill's The Driver.
    “This is a Melville movie, this is a Curasawa samurai movie. This is all that stuff, right? This is the Walter Hill, the driver movie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 1:08:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

Prometheus (2012): 1 line

  1. people (casting origin) · through The Killer (2023), which they were tied to as author of 'Making Movies' (letterbox joke): Prometheus ⇒ The Killer (the maker said so: the Q and A at the screening). Fincher said at the Q&A that seeing Prometheus made him note Fassbender as a good sociopath for later.
    “I go to see Prometheus and I go, hmm, sociopath.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free) · 0:31:01 · David Sims (0.55 sure it was them)

Rear Window (1954): 1 line

  1. lineage (homage) · through The Killer (2023), which they were tied to as author of 'Making Movies' (letterbox joke): Rear Window ⇒ The Killer (the host's read). The Paris hit sequence is a clear homage built on watching rooms across the street.
    “it is a kind of rear window monkey. You know, it is like an attempt to recreate the across the street path, vision of what is happening in rooms in another building, and clear homage to that film.”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:20:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

The Authentic Death of Henry Jones: 1 line

  1. unmapped (became) · through One-Eyed Jacks (1961), which they were tied to as director Brando approached, hypothetical: The Authentic Death of Henry Jones ⇒ One-Eyed Jacks (the host's read). The Brando-Kubrick-Peckinpah western project is what became One-Eyed Jacks, which Brando directed himself.
    “This movie, of course, is one-eyed. Jax, the movie that Brando was working on.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:44:09 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

The Cable Guy (1996): 1 line

  1. lineage (callback joke) · through The Killer (2023), which they were tied to as author of 'Making Movies' (letterbox joke): The Cable Guy ⇒ The Killer (the host's read). The TV-character aliases gag was already a joke in The Cable Guy (50s characters there, 70s and 80s here).
    “that was a joke of the cable guy just to give credit where it's to.”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 1:22:52 · Adam Nayman (0.70 sure it was them)

The Killing (1956): 1 line

  1. unmapped (led to) · through One-Eyed Jacks (1961), which they were tied to as director Brando approached, hypothetical: The Killing ⇒ One-Eyed Jacks (the host's read). Brando had seen The Killing and Paths of Glory and wanted Kubrick to direct his western.
    “Marlon Brando had seen the killing and had seen paths of glory and thought Kubrick was great.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:39:11 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Jackie Brown (1997): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Killer (2023), which they were tied to as author of 'Making Movies' (letterbox joke): The Killer ⇒ Jackie Brown (the host's read). Jackie Brown has a monologue about The Killer, showing Woo's aesthetic was known to Western audiences.
    “Jackie Brown has a whole monologue about the killer.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:33:35 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (20) everyone in directing

Other (3) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (2)

  1. career (career): Sidney Lumet → Running on Empty. Lumet, director of 12 Angry Men and Dog Day Afternoon, got the script in 1987.
    “In 1987, phoner script found its way to Sydney Lament, the director of such classics as 12 Angry Men and Dog Day Afternoon.”
    The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:14:15 · Brian Raftery (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Sidney Lumet → 12 Angry Men. Lumet directed 12 Angry Men, which was left off; he is honored later via The Verdict.
    “we are acknowledging the work of the great Sunil Lumet later in the show”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:13:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Nora Ephron → Sidney Lumet. Ephron rehearsed her casts in a taped-out black-box theater, a method the speaker links to Sidney Lumet.
    “Did extensive rehearsals for all of her movies in a way that the only other person I know who did this in the last 30 or 40 years was Sidney Lametz”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:39:31 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (comparison): Peter Weir → Sidney Lumet. A director whose style matches the material, like Lumet.
    “I think of him a little similar to Sidney Lamette.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 0:30:03 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

unmapped (2)

  1. unmapped (advice-book joke): Sidney Lumet → The Killer. The Letterboxd joke: the killer's advice is a Sidney Lumet Making Movies.
    “It's fucking Sidney Lumette's making movies.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free) · 1:24:53 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (technique): Sidney Lumet → Daniel. Lumet's choice on Daniel was to never show the sky until the end.
    “never show the sky.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:02:29 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (what-if swap): Sidney Lumet → Stanley Kubrick. Speaker finds it fascinating to imagine Lumet directing Strangelove and Kubrick directing Fail-Safe.
    “it's really, really fascinating to imagine a world in which these 2 guys like flipped these movies.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:51:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

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