

He is up front here in this 2008 dated piece about the "peaks and valleys" of his work, but he decidedly refutes the criticism he got over the years that he didn't have some unifying notion to his films.

This is more akin to what one might hear in podcast form like on a WTF episode, where it is more of a free ranging conversation that is more about the emotional and thematic parts of many parts of a body of work and how that ties back at least somewhat (or majorly at times) into Lumet's life. Not any less or more than the De Palma doc, just different here it's not the "evolution of a career", film by film, with sprinklings of personal details, as De Palma was.
