About this episode
The eighth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1975 features Jason’s personal pick, Sidney Lumet’s Dog Day Afternoon. Directed by Sidney Lumet from a screenplay by Frank Pierson and starring Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning, Chris Sarandon, Penelope Allen and Sully Boyar, Dog Day Afternoon was inspired by the true story of a Brooklyn bank robbery in 1972. The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert ( https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/dog-day-afternoon-1975 ), Vincent Canby in The New York Times ( https://www.nytimes.com/1975/09/22/archives/screen-lumets-dog-day-afternoon.html ), and Pauline Kael in The New Yorker . Visit https://www.awesomemovieyear.com for more info about the show. Make sure to like Awesome Movie Year on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear and follow us on Twitter @Awesomemoviepod You can find Jason online at http://goforjason.com/ , on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/ , on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Twitter @JHarrisComedy You can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/ , on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/ and on Twitter @signalbleed You can find our producer David Rosen’s Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com , on Twitter at @piecingpod and the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod . You can also follow us all on Letterboxd to keep up with what we've been watching at goforjason , signalbleed and bydavidrosen . Subscribe on Patreon to support the show and get access to exclusive content from Awesome Movie Year, plus fellow podcasts Piecing It Together and All Rice No Beans, and music by David Rosen: https://www.patreon.com/bydavidrosen All of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at https://www.bydavidrosen.com Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1975 installment, featuring the Berlin International Film Festival Golden Bear winner, Márta Mészáros’ Adoption .