GREG PROOPS FILM CLUB: Dog Day Afternoon
In addition to being one of the mind-warpingly quick-draw improv comics on earth, Greg Proops is now the host The Greg Proops Film Club: a lugubrious, salacious, verbacious monthly podcast! First up, Greg records his latest episode live on the Cinefamily stage, and then it’s time for one of Al Pacino’s greatest screen performances. Greg sez: “Pacino is a gay bank robber, who knocks over a bank to pay for a sex change for his lover. The robbery goes awry and turns into a cynical media event. This is wild Seventies filmmaking at its best. Gripping and real, Pacino is on fire as the sensitive and complicated Sonny — and John Cazale plays the unforgettably, sullen, laconic Sal. Sidney Lumet is one of the great directors of the era (Network, Serpico, The Verdict), and has the conscience to make this unlikely heist movie into a running discussion of authority, sexual identity and civil rights. Pacino once strode the earth as a protean force; come and dig him in his jungle element.” Proops will deconstruct, reanimate and regale this fine classic, plus tackle 467 ancilliary tangents in an expert flick of the verbal wrist. Be there!
Dir. Sidney Lumet, 1975, 35mm, 125 min.
Q: Does Greg talk over the movies, like the Doug Benson Movie Interruption?
A: No. It is a recording of his podcast, followed by a screening of the film.
Watch the trailer for “Dog Day Afternoon”!
GREG PROOPS FILM CLUB: Lifeboat (archival 35mm print!)
In addition to being one of the mind-warpingly quick-draw improv comics on earth, Greg Proops is the host of The Greg Proops Film Club: a lugubrious, salacious, verbacious monthly podcast! First up, Greg records his latest episode live on the Cinefamily stage, and then it’s time for one of Hitchcock’s most claustrophobic works, shown from an archival 35mm print! Greg sez: “Hitchcock on the ocean. A U-boat sinks a civilian ship during the war, and the survivors are pit against each other to survive. Made during the war from a story by John Steinbeck, this is a little cracker of a picture. We have the proper English people, the Brooklyn guy, the suspicious German, the blue-collar studbucket and the fabulous Tallulah Bankhead. Shot in the Fox lot’s water tank, Tallulah had to climb a ladder every morning to get in. She never wore underwear, and the crew cheered her each day. The fun starts there. Hitchcock makes a cameo, but how do you do it when it is only a bunch of people in a Lifeboat? You will dig this one. Summer is funner with hot WW2 action.” Proops will deconstruct, reanimate and regale this fine classic, plus tackle 467 ancilliary tangents in an expert flick of the verbal wrist. Be there!
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1944, 35mm, 96 min. (Print courtesy of Fox Archive)
Q: Does Greg talk over the movies, like the Doug Benson Movie Interruption?
A: No. It is a recording of his podcast, followed by a screening of the film.
Watch a documentary on the making of “Lifeboat”!
