Sidney Lumet once wrote: "While the goal of all movies is to entertain, the kind of film in which I believe goes one step further. It compels the spectator to examine one facet or another of his ...

If an essential quality of great art is timelessness, Hollywood movies on contemporary social issues have a checkered history. Some endure as classics, but many others have long ago lost their ...

The 1983 remake of Scarface is best remembered for Al Pacino’s iconic performance and the grand operatic direction of Brian De Palma. Its impact on pop culture has been stamped on hip-hop music ...

Sidney Lumet began his career acting and directing for the theater, and made his screen acting debut in the movie, One Third of a Nation, in 1939. Lumet began directing television in the late 1940's ...

The auteur curated the screening series “Living, Breathing New York” for the Roxy Cinema, which features screenings of four of his favorite NYC movies out of a full list of Scorsese’s 32 favorite New ...