Dog Day Afternoon News

A still from "She's Gotta Have It" As I wrote when I blogged about the National Film Registry at this time last year, I generally think they do a great job in picking historically and culturally important movies for official recognition -- and, more important, preservation by the Librarian of Congress.

From Phil Nugent comes word that filmmaker Helen Hill, killed in New Orleans in 2007, has had a film selected for permanent preservation by the Library of Congress: Every year the Library of Congress selects twenty-five films deemed to be of "artistic, cultural, or historical interest" for permanent preservation, and this year's bounty includes ...

Al Pacino does his Big Soulful Eyes bit in this 1975 film, playing a homosexual who robs a bank to get the money for his lover's sex-change operation but bungles the job and ends up holding nine hostages while he waits for a plane to fly him to Algeria.

Every year for the last 20 years, 25 motion pictures have been selected for archiving in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry.

Michael Jackson's 1983 short movie Thriller, the song-and-dance horror flick that helped popularise television music videos, will live on in the US National Film Registry.

The National Film Registry is an organization that actively seeks out and preserves projects that have a historical significance in the mediums of film, television, and sound recording.

You've got to love any movie list that manages to have both "Dog Day Afternoon" and "The Muppet Movie" on it.

Experimental filmmaker Helen Hill, right, seen in July 2003 with Canadian husband Paul Gailiunas, will have one of her films preserved in the U.S. federal film registry.

Pics ranging from "Pillow Talk" and "The Muppet Movie" to "Dog Day Afternoon" and "Once Upon a Time in the West" are among the 25 titles selected as this year's addition to the Library of Congress' National Film Registry, the feds' official archive of film gems worthy of preservation.

After all, listening to his show was a slice of life here, so to speak. Very recently, I happened to watch the Sidney Lumet film Dog Day Afternoon again.

Intense, scary, dark and loud. That sums up the Kane and Lynch 2 debut trailer. IO Interactive, Eidos and Square Enix released the debut trailer, which contains a bloody shootout and a brooding psychotic.

If you want to get your Sweetie something he'll really love this Christmas you can't go wrong with the movies on this list.

Which, clearly, isn't that far away and all, but we still can't help but feel like there is some sort of network conspiracy against those of us with zero holiday plans.

Al Pacino, seen in Paris in 2008, will reprise the role of Shylock in the 2010 Central Park production of The Merchant of Venice.

In Section: ON SCREEN >> Next week, Theater 80 will fire up its film projectors for the first time in 15 years, when comic caper film The Brooklyn Heis t begins its two-week run at the famed revival house.

PF KLUGE'S ARTICLE in Life about bank robber John Wojtowicz noted that he had the "good looks of an Al Pacino" ... and Al Pacino did indeed play the character based on Wojtowicz in "Dog Day Afternoon." The robbery was intended to pay for Ernest Aron's sex-change surgery.

The Southern California Chapter of the Arthritis Foundation will present the 22nd "Commitment to a Cure" Awards Gala on Saturday, November 14th, beginning at 6:00 p.m. at the Beverly Wilshire hotel.

Rome, October 28 - American director Sidney Lumet will be the recipient of this year's Fellini Prize, a lifetime achievement award given by Italy's prestigious Federico Fellini Foundation.

Hey, folks. Capone in Chicago here. I'm going to try something new on Ain't It Cool News, see what the reaction is, see how easy it is to maintain some sort of regular schedule with this new feature, and either continue it or declare it a categorical failure and move on.

This is a naughty '60s sex romp about a naive boy whose progress to maturity is helped along by several crafty females.