I'm watching "12 Angry Men" right now. I have the movie on DVD and can watch it anytime I like, but there is SOMETHING to just watching it unexpectedly.
What a wonderful movie!!!
I think what's remarkable about MEN is that was Lumet's debut.
Outside of perhaps CITIZEN KANE, this might contend as the greatest, most impressive first gig.
Capo - Thanks mate, great write-up. I liked this bit on another Lumet gem:
Of the items I’ve seen from these years, the most daring is The Offence (1972). This study of a sadistic British police inspector’s vendetta against a child molester offers a sort of seedy expressionism. In another gesture toward psychodrama, long conversations with the perpetrator reveal that the copper is a bit of a perve himself.
