Movies 'Til Dawn Blog

CREDIT SEQUENCE THEATER PT.2; ‘DOG DAY AFTERNOON’

‘Dog Day Afternoon’ (1975) is on my short–very short–list of movies I can watch at any time. The credit sequence, setting up a hot New York city summer, is masterfully realized and uses very simple footage, much of which I’m guessing was culled from stock. The flavor of the various

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BUT WHAT DOES WILLIAM FRIEDKIN REALLY THINK OF AL PACINO?

William Friedkin and Al Pacino made the unhappy undercover-in-gay-bondage-world police drama ‘Cruising’ in 1979. Friedkin, in his memoir ‘The Friedkin Connection’, makes it very clear how little the two men liked working with each other. In the above interview clip–in case Friedkin wasn’t clear enough in his book–he makes it

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