{"id":154,"date":"2011-04-09T22:50:46","date_gmt":"2011-04-09T22:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/?p=154"},"modified":"2011-04-09T22:50:46","modified_gmt":"2011-04-09T22:50:46","slug":"sidney-lumet-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/2011\/04\/09\/sidney-lumet-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Sidney Lumet RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the last true greats of American cinema, <a title=\"Sidney Lumet\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001486\/\">Sidney Lumet<\/a>, passed away today at his home in Manhattan, aged 86.<\/p>\n<p>His first feature &#8216;<a title=\"Twelve Angry Men\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0050083\/\">Twelve Angry Men<\/a>&#8216; is not just one of my all time favourite films, but a masterclass in how to tell a compelling and meaningful story without the need for expensive locations, elaborate set design, unnecessary camera movements and clich\u00e9 ridden over-scoring. <\/p>\n<p>Celebrate his films. Tell everyone about them. Just don&#8217;t mention <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0078504\/\">&#8216;The Wiz&#8217;<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"373\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" id=\"nyt_video_player\" title=\"New York Times Video - Embed Player\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/bcvideo\/1.0\/iframe\/embed.html?videoId=1194838961597&#038;playerType=embed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the last true greats of American cinema, Sidney Lumet, passed away today at his home in Manhattan, aged 86. His first feature &#8216;Twelve Angry Men&#8216; is not just one of my all time favourite films, but a masterclass in how to tell a compelling and meaningful story without the need for expensive locations, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/2011\/04\/09\/sidney-lumet-rip\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sidney Lumet RIP&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,82,79,81,77,1],"tags":[84,634,83],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema","category-directors","category-films","category-movies","category-obituary","category-uncategorized","tag-director","tag-obituary","tag-sidney-lumet"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1cZYU-2u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}