Breaking The Law in the Dog Day Afternoon

The Pod Charles Cinecast

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas head to New York in the 70s to witness a stand-off between armed robbers and police, as a bank robbery has escalated into a hostage situation.

It's a brand-new arc to see us through the summer – BREAKING THE LAW, BREAKING THE LAW – where we will be going through three stages of crime films, consisting of 1) Films about The Crime, 2) Films about The Trial, and 3)Films about The Prison Sentence.

First up, we're exploring Sidney Lumet's 1975 crime drama, DOG DAY AFTERNOON, starring Al Pacino, John Cazale, and Chris Sarandon. Based on the true story of a bank heist gone wrong, that turns into a media spectacle, the film won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and is a classic for Pacino fans. Even more surprising is how well it handles one of the more interesting facts about the real crime, that the lead criminal was intending to rob the bank to pay for the sexual reassignment surgery of his transgender wife.

Join us, as we talk this subtle queer crime story during Pride Month, and lay out the fact and fiction of the real story vs the movie. Plus, we talk the many moods of Pacino, remember John Cazale, breakdown Lumet's first foray into letting his actors improvise and a lot more of our crime movie favourites...

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