Heat Wave: DOG DAY AFTERNOON - 50th Anniversary Screening - Presented by Anthony Oliveira

50th Anniversary Screening!



The films are hot, but the Revue’s AC will be cranked for the films in this summer’s Heat Wave lineup.



Heat Wave at the Revue Cinema, a lineup of classic summer movies, ratchets up the temperature on July 16th with one of the sweatiest movies ever made, Sidney Lumet’s DOG DAY AFTERNOON – with an introduction by Dumpster Raccoon Cinema programmer, ANTHONY OLIVEIRA!



It’s one of the hottest days of the summer, and a bank heist has just gone horribly awry. With almost no take from the registers, robbers Sonny (Al Pacino) and Sal (John Cazale) panic, escalating bad luck into a major hostage situation – made all the more tense as revelations of Sonny’s motives (trying to make a new life with his trans girlfriend) and police ineptitude turn both hostages and an increasingly interested media circus on the side of the bank robbers. Can tensions be deescalated – or is this hot day doomed to get even hotter?



A searingly directed and acted film that broke major ground in Hollywood’s depiction of queer lives (based on real-life events at a Chase Manhattan Bank, and the real-life glorious messiness and queerness of its players), DOG DAY AFTERNOON is a masterpiece of taut energy and sharply drawn character work, swaying between improvised ease and razor-sharp editing to deliver one of cinema’s finest crime dramas. Life is messy, sweaty, and sticky – as Sidney Lumet’s special “sweat formula”, sprayed liberally across all his stars, can attest! (ANTHONY OLIVEIRA)

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