Dog Day Afternoon [1975]
Director: Sidney Lumet
Actor: Al Pacino, John Cazale
In my attempt to watch some of the great, under-appreciated movies of all time I watched Dog Day Afternoon today, while I was home sick from work. This film is based on a true story of a man robbing a bank to pay for his lover’s sex-change operation. I’m not going to review all of it, because I’m ill, and because it’ll be hard to find the words to describe this film – the distinct, mid-seventies feel, the tempo, the acting – because it’s 30 years old. Made in a time of many great films, most of them, if not all of them, ending up forgotten. This film, as well as Serpico, come to mind. This is probably one of Pacino’s best films.
