Part one of our two part October celebration of Al Pacino is Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Sidney Lumet’s breathtaking rollercoaster of a masterpiece that basically screams “Trans Rights!” in a manner few films of its era (or even several eras after it) ever had the courage to do. Based on a true story, it stars Pacino as a man who is attempting a bank heist in an effort to pay for his wife’s gender transition surgery. As riveting as it is deeply moving, Dog Day Afternoon holds up so fucking hard a half century later.
