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Podcast: Comfort Films Podcast
Episode: Comfort Films 71: Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Description: For the third week in our Comfort Crime Month, we take a trip back to a sweaty August day in 1970s Brooklyn to ride shotgun with Al Pacino and John Cazale on a bank robbery gone very wrong in Sidney Lumet's Oscar-nominated Dog Day Afternoon. We talk about the real-life 1972 robbery that inspired the film, the Gen X/Millennial interest in true crime (a seed probably planted by Unsolved Mysteries), the improvisational rehearsal process that supported and enhanced screenwriter Frank Pierson’s Oscar-winning script, Sidney Lumet’s naturalistic approach to telling this story, the birth of sensationalist news, the uniq...