Dog Day Afternoon News

The 1970s gave us disco, bell bottom jeans and the most authentic New York films committed to celluoid.

Actor Al Pacino , pianist Andre Watts , visual artists Will Barnet and Martin Puryear and art philanthropist Emily Rauh Pulitzer are among the winners of the 2011 National Medal of Arts, to be bestowed Monday by President Obama in a ceremony at the White House .

Actor Al Pacino has rescheduled his appearance at the 2012 Viva Health Starlight Gala that benefits UAB's Alys Stephens Center because of a conflict with a movie he is filming in April, the Stephens Center said in a release today.

The chance to publish reviews by the young members of FILMCLUB is always a pleasure.

Pablo F. Fenjves might not be Sidney Lumet, but his clever if absurd heist film does acknowledge its debt to the late, politically inclined director's Dog Day Afternoon .