CiNEMERCATOR - Sidney Lumet DOG DAY AFTERNOON 1975
Filmlover,
4 cinephiles:
Merthe Voorhoeve, Andreas van Riet,
Maaike Hasselaar & Elisabeth van Vliet,
each are programming 1 precious film per month. That's 4 precious films per month!
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CiNEMERCATOR
doors open 19:30
start 20:00
ticket 3 Euro
nxt edition:
26-11
Dog Day Afternoon is one of those movies that shouldn’t work: a bank robbery that goes wrong immediately, a crowd that grows like it’s attending a block party and a criminal who can’t stop talking. But somehow, under all that noise and heat, the film becomes sharp, funny, and unexpectedly human. Sidney Lumet directs with the cool confidence of someone who knows New York’s nervous system by heart. By 1975 he had already made 12 Angry Men and Serpico. He was the city’s unofficial storyteller, the guy who understood how people argue, sweat, lie, and occasionally rise to the occasion. In Dog Day Afternoon he lets the mess breathe. The movie unfolds almost in real time and the chaos never feels staged. You don't watch it, you sit in it... And then there is Al Pacino. At this point in his career, he was still riding the volcanic momentum of The Godfather and Serpico, but he hadn’t yet become the larger-than-life shout-powered legend of later years. Here he’s electric in a different way: jittery, anxious, strangely tender, always one breath away from a full meltdown, not as a slick criminal, but as a guy who can barely hold his own life together- let alone a hostage situation...
This film is chosen by Merthe.
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