Virtual Film Club

Program Type:

Film Club

Age Group:

Adults
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Program Description

Event Details

Virtual Film Club

Each month we pick a culturally or historically significant film for library patrons to watch and discuss. Watch the film on your own time, then meet with our virtual film club to discuss the film on Zoom. Registration is required. Zoom Invites will be sent out via email.

This month's film is Twelve Angry Men (1957), directed by Sidney Lumet

Additional Resources

GENERAL

TCM page for ‘Twelve Angry Men’: https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/94081/12-angry-men#overview

Official trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEN-2uTi2c0

 

REVIEWS (& ANALYSIS)

Roger Ebert (2002): https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-12-angry-men-1957

Nadir Samara (2024): https://screenrant.com/12-angry-men-movie-review-1957/

Edward Kosmal (1957): https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-post-dispatch-12-angry-men-o/117675360/

Jonathan Brambach (1957): https://archive.org/details/sim_film-culture_1957_3_2/page/14/mode/2up

Richard Propes (n.d.): https://theindependentcritic.com/12_angry_men

Joshua Stevens (2025): https://loudandclearreviews.com/12-angry-men-film-review/

Chris Stuckmann (2018): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzwPNMiQFf8 (12½ min)

I aM D.B. (2021): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHd9yUopWL8 (~11 min)

Alex Boucher (2021): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsrs_ruVo6I (13½ min)

Script Sleuth (2021): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TPvDSxMoWk (23 min)

 

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR (Sidney Lumet)

Biography (American Masters, 2016): https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/biography-sidney-lumet/7810/

An appreciation by Thane Rosenbaum (2011): https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sidney-lumet-a-remembrance_b_847866

Interview with Terry Gross, Fresh Air (2006): https://www.npr.org/2006/03/10/5256247/a-director-of-classics-still-at-work  (19 min)

Obituary appreciation (Los Angeles Times, 2011): https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2011-apr-10-la-me-sidney-lumet-20110410-story.html

Senses of Cinema (2021): https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2021/great-directors/lumet-sidney/

An appreciation by Roger Ebert (2012): https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/sidney-lumet-in-memory

 

OTHER RESOURCE

Book:   791.43 De Forest, Sloan. The essential directors (2021)

MISCELLANEOUS

Additional analysis of the film: https://www.moviestarhistory.com/movies-3/12-angry-men-1957-453-p

Analysis of fallacious reasoning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTxf4P97gho (25 min)