On June 25th 1924, Sidney Lumet was born into the world: from May 2nd to May 30th, Casa del Cinema will celebrate the American filmmaker, winner of an Honorary Oscar® in 2005, with a retrospective of six of his greatest films, which will lead the spectator into socially committed cinema, with remarkable performances by actors such as Al Pacino, Charlotte Rampling, Rod Steiger, Paul Newman, Henry Fonda, Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani and Joanne Woodward. The films range from 12 Angry Men, winner of the Golden Bear at the 1957 Berlin Film Festival, to The Fugitive Kind, based on the toxic family, social and sensual entanglements woven by Tennessee Williams in his play “Orpheus Descending”; from The Pawnbroker, the award-winning film attacked by American censorship and by Jewish and Afro-American associations, filmed live in the streets of New York, and Serpico, filmed in the same locations to denounce police corruption in the great American metropolis; from Dog Day Afternoon, inspired by a real-life story, one of most tense and effective of Lumet’s films, to the solid legal thriller The Verdict, based on a magnificent screenplay by David Mamet.