Sidney Lumet, one of the best directors ever of American cinema, has died – and we are all poorer for this loss.
I had the good fortune to meet him, briefly, during the shooting of Equus but never worked with him. He didn’t do a lot of puppets. But the films and early broadcast dramas he crafted for us certainly made an impact upon me and the way I view movies and storytelling.
Here’s just a taste of his work:
Thank you, Mr. Lumet.
Found this over on Jill Golick’s Running With Eyes Closed site. It’s a great bullshit cleanser from the Writer’s Guild of Canada for the debate between the cable and broadcast companies in Canada who are arguing over who should pay for Canadians to receive local programming.
Yo – fuck heads – the airwaves are ours.
I’ve been watching the repeated showings of the self-serving ads the cable companies and the broadcasters have been running and every time they make me froth at the mouth with rage over their insolent arrogance. They need to have their heads knocked together. The CRTC needs to act on behalf of Canadian citizens and not their fat cat media cronies. Will that happen? Not likely. That’s why the CRTC should get fucked. Maybe if we all say that – really loudly – they’ll get the idea, get scared for their jobs and end up inadvertently doing the right thing.
Fuck ‘em.
Cheers.
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