alpacino &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:alpacino @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:13:07 +0200 Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet, 1975) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-tc31 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet, 1975)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 22/div div class="occasion" 1972/div div class="img" Dog Day Afternoon (1975)/div div class="caption" Sal (John Cazale) and Sonny (Al Pacino) in the bank, holding out with their increasingly impatient hostages. DP: Victor J. Kemper./div div class="txt" "He won't listen to anybody. He's been very crazy all summer. Since June he's been trying to kill me." ### – Leon /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #August #SidneyLumet #LeslieWaller #JohnCazale #AlPacino #ChrisSarandon #CarolKane #PenelopeAllen #LanceHenriksen #VictorJKemper #drama #heist #crime #LGBT #biography #BookAdaptation #USA #1970s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet, 1975)

Aug

22

1972

Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

Sal (John Cazale) and Sonny (Al Pacino) in the bank, holding out with their increasingly impatient hostages. DP: Victor J. Kemper.

“He won't listen to anybody. He's been very crazy all summer. Since June he's been trying to kill me.”

– Leon

#FilmDuJour #August #SidneyLumet #LeslieWaller #JohnCazale #AlPacino #ChrisSarandon #CarolKane #PenelopeAllen #LanceHenriksen #VictorJKemper #drama #heist #crime #LGBT #biography #BookAdaptation #USA #1970s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-tc31 Fri, 22 Aug 2025 09:00:00 +0200 Serpico (Sidney Lumet, 1973) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/serpico-1973 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Serpico (Sidney Lumet, 1973)/div div class="month" Jul/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 30/div div class="occasion" National Whistleblower Day/div div class="img" Serpico (1973)/div div class="caption" The cover of the Austrian film magazine "Neues Filmprogramm". A red-filtered lobby card of Frank Serpico (Al Pacino) and his partner (F. Murray Abraham, uncredited) during police proceedings. DP: Arthur J. Ornitz./div div class="txt" ##### In the late 1960s, Frank Serpico worked as a plainclothes cop for the #NYPD. He spoke out when he uncovered systematic, widespread #corruption within the force, but his findings were ignored. In 1970, Serpico cowrote a page 1 article for the New York Times about the problem, which led to the instalment of the Commission to Investigate Alleged Police Corruption aka the Knapp Commission. "The reality is that we do not wash our own laundry; it just gets dirtier." ### – Frank Serpico\ The following year during a drug-related arrest attempt, he was shot in the face under shady circumstances. This is where Sidney Lumet's Serpico, based on Peter Maas and Frank Serpico's book of the same name, starts./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #NationalWhistleblowerDay #SidneyLumet #AlPacino #PeterMaas #FrankSerpico #MikisTheodorakis #ArthurJOrnitz #BookAdaptation #crime #drama #biography #whistleblowers #NewYork #Italy #USA #1970s/div /section ]]>

Serpico (Sidney Lumet, 1973)

Jul

30

National Whistleblower Day

Serpico (1973)

The cover of the Austrian film magazine “Neues Filmprogramm”. A red-filtered lobby card of Frank Serpico (Al Pacino) and his partner (F. Murray Abraham, uncredited) during police proceedings. DP: Arthur J. Ornitz.

In the late 1960s, Frank Serpico worked as a plainclothes cop for the #NYPD. He spoke out when he uncovered systematic, widespread #corruption within the force, but his findings were ignored. In 1970, Serpico cowrote a page 1 article for the New York Times about the problem, which led to the instalment of the Commission to Investigate Alleged Police Corruption aka the Knapp Commission.

“The reality is that we do not wash our own laundry; it just gets dirtier.”

– Frank Serpico

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #NationalWhistleblowerDay #SidneyLumet #AlPacino #PeterMaas #FrankSerpico #MikisTheodorakis #ArthurJOrnitz #BookAdaptation #crime #drama #biography #whistleblowers #NewYork #Italy #USA #1970s

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