Directed by Joseph Sargent • 1974 • United States
Starring Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam
One of the definitive cinematic time capsules of New York in the good-bad old days of the 1970s, this crackling urban-jungle thriller begins when a quartet of gunmen in trench coats—led by the coolly methodical mastermind Mr. Blue (Robert Shaw)—hijack a subway train and hold the passengers hostage for a ransom of one million dollars. Now, harried Transit Police Lieutenant Zachary Garber (Walter Matthau), caught between the group’s demands and the endless frustrations of the city’s ineffectual bureaucracy, finds himself racing against time to deliver the money—or else.
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Dog Day Afternoon
Directed by Sidney Lumet • 1975 • United States
Starring Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles DurningOn a sweltering August day, novice criminals Sonny (Al Pacino) and Sal (John Cazale) attempt to rob a Brooklyn bank in order to pay for Sonny’s lover’s gender confirmation surgery—a situation that qu...
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You’re a Big Boy Now
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola • 1966 • United States
Starring Elizabeth Hartman, Geraldine Page, Peter KastnerFrancis Ford Coppola’s oft-overlooked second feature is a zanily offbeat entry in the 1960s sex-comedy canon. Bernard Chanticleer (Peter Kastner), a naive nineteen-year-old virgin li...
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Across 110th Street
Directed by Barry Shear • 1972 • United States
Starring Anthony Quinn, Yaphet Kotto, Anthony FranciosaEvocatively shot on location in 1970s Harlem, this gut-punching crime drama combines film noir and blaxploitation tropes into an explosive portrait of simmering social and racial tensions. Yaph...
