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TERRILL/ASSOCIATED PRESS/FILE Character, of course, is what ar bomb ofHea scriptwas, nowthe mostseemsreliable you-are- and the half-jolly, half-dismayed Al Pacino, who starred in Sidney Lumet’s ‘‘Dog Day Afternoon’’ and ‘‘Serpico,’’ presented the separates a Lumet picture from beyond timeless.thereOneAmericanof the greadirect tor of the human touch Spike Lee used for director with an honorary Oscar in 2005. many other directors’ — the way movie satires’70hass. become simply 2006’s ‘‘Inside Man.’’ (When I Lumet was born in Philadel- met with Lumet a couple of years arts 6 BL[HE BOS[TN GLOBE L9PRIL 12, 2011 phia, to a couple of Yiddish ac- ago, he told me Lee called to tors, but he lived most of his life warn him that some of that touch in New York. 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It was right and buffets of cutaways to the stoic, wrong in the American nonplussed, or terrified faces of Scity, nearly always in bit players and extras. New York. Lumet died Saturday His best films — from 1973’s morning. He was 86, and made ‘‘Serpico’’ on down — are set in his first film in 1957, in his early New York, and when the Mount 30s, after having spent most the Rushmore of great New York 1950s directing television — directors is made, the selection serious television. That first committee might have a tough movie was ‘‘12 Angry Men,’’ and time figuring out whose head has there been a more sincerely goes alongside Martin Scorsese’s, volcanic movie about the law — Woody Allen’s, and Spike Lee’s. or a family of addicts (‘‘Long Cassavetes? Warhol? I’d vote for Day’s Journey Into Night’’), po- Lumet — if only for the warm, lice corruption (‘‘Serpico’’), bank illustrative opening montage of robbery (‘‘Dog Day Afternoon’’), ‘‘Dog Day Afternoon,’’ which TV (‘‘Network’’), or abotched skips around New York looking heist (‘‘Before the Devil Knows for an electric sort of trouble and You’re Dead’’)? finds it in a car full of bank rob- Mostly, he dealt with crime bers. But there is much more and corruption (political, psycho- where that came from — both in logical, ethical). But those senses that movie and in most of Lu- of order and propriety kept him met’s. away from pulp and out of the Lumet might have also be- gutter. He was trying to answer come the most influential Ameri- questions that transcend conven- can director of the last 50 years.
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