OSCARS '75: Dog Day Afternoon
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CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of homophobia and transphobia, robbery, death, police shooting, police violence.
It’s finally awards season, and we had so much fun with last year’s Oscar series, we decided to come back for another round of a year in Oscars. And after our Spielberg series, watching and loving Jaws, we saw the list of contenders and realized - we needed to do another full-year series. So welcome to 1975, a year of movies from tons of different directors, actors, and screenwriters from a wide range of stories and styles. And we’re kicking it off with a bank heist movie that’s so much more, even though it’s also a giant mess. What’s good in this movie is great, but what’s bad is really sloppy. Still, there’s several performances worth the price of admission here, including the finale to Al Pacino’s masterful run in the early 70’s that showed us what a range he had. Grab your handkerchiefs, we’re talking about Dog Day Afternoon as we kick off our Oscars ‘75 series of Macintosh & Maud Haven’t Seen What?!
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Intro music taken from the Second Movement of Ludwig von Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Hong Kong (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 HK) license. To hear the full performance or get more information, visit the song page at the Internet Archive.
Excerpt taken of the introduction to the 48th Annual Academy Awards, arranged and conducted by John Williams, and performed by the Academy Awards Orchestra; and announced by Hank Simms.
Excerpt taken from “Amoreena,” written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin, and performed by Elton John. Copyright 1970 This Record Company Limited.
Clips from Dog Day Afternoon are copyright 1975 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Excerpt taken from “Sarabande Main Title” from the film Barry Lyndon, composed by Georg Friedrich Handel, adapted and conducted by Leonard Rosenman, and performed by the National Philharmonic Orchestra. Copyright 1975 WEA Recordings Ltd.
