The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 93

8-E THE MIAMI HERALD Thursday December 25 1975 mutton CHRISTMAS I SERVING FROM 4 PM IN THE FABULOUS I gf FEATURING OUR ENTIRE GOURMET MENU RESERVE NOW FOR MAJOR CREDIT Clift IflQR YOUR NEW IVI CARDS ACCEPTED IU9U dinner Lumet Makes Day' A Crackling Good Film iT 1949 1 WE INVITE YOU TO HAVI A GLASS OF CHAMPAGNE AND SEE THE WELL ACCLAIMED I NEW EVE 890 x1 RISl DADE 911930 ROW 13-0941 RUTH FOREMAN'S NORTH MIAMI PLAYHOUSS 1603 I 12 ST (OFF BICAYHI) See Ads diso- A mood to the other without rienting the viewer day Afternoon" a very special film makes VI Q- O') '-i lV i' ll1 1 5 A i li i 1: 10th Street 27th Avenue i mmm 'J 19400 Collins Ave (in the Sheraton Beach Hotel) A Reservations: 19400 Tnllm Au GALA HEW YEAR'S EVE PERFORMANCE PAUL ADVANCE TICKET SALE AT CASHIER (LOBBY) cefeiGALA MIDNITE SHOW: AT TABLES REVERE and 1250 AT BAR theJRAIDERS NO COVERMO MINIMUM DANCING FREE SELF PARKING OPENING TOMORROW I PAUL REVERE THE RAIDERS LAST NITE! THE DRIFTERS 1 67thtTHE dCEA 'GALA NEW YEAR'S EVE PART tfJBSf with DON SEBASTIAN 1 Ike CI Oo (he Fiesta Room PLUS TAX A GRATUITIKS INCLUDES 7 DRINKS REGULAR PRICES FOR LATEST SHOW PER PERSON INCLUDING TAX TIPS ALL YOU CAN DRINK FROM 10 PM TO 2 A A DON At The Organ Piano in MIAMYEACiriUPERSTAIbFleOMEDYf Qfi dragged-out 12-hour stalemate Into a film that bristles with tension and the absurd Lumet finds order in chaos sense in nsamty The street sequences the center of the film are magmficiently staged The exchanges between Pacino and Durning seem improvised though I expect they were carefully plotted TOO LUMET bypasses the enormous temptation to turn a real-life incident into bombastic allegory This becomes the film Steven Spielberg tried to make in the flawed but often brilliant The similarities between the two films seem endless: The crime as a media event the lawbreakers taking hostages the criminals developing a warm bond with their captives the hordes of multiplying police But then fate decides to have one final crazy laugh at the expense of both bank robbers and lawmen The Pacino character becomes a folk hero like the young couple in The bizarre bank robbery is the lead story of the evening news and Pacino showing defiance and nerve in dealing with the police is adored by the screaming growing throngs ONE IMPORTANT difference between the and concerns the changing mood of the mob In the Lumet work The cheers turn to ugly snarls and cruel abuse when the public learns that Pacino is a homosexual seeking funds for hear that Maude! a sex-change operation Then the FBI takes charge of the case and like the Texas Rangers in "Sugarland they erase the human factor and turn to the grim efficient business of capturing or killing the social deviants Through the years I have learned never to underestimate Sidney Lumet one of the least popular directors among the elitiest critics Just when it seems this much-maligned craftsman has created a straight-ahead simplistic film of purely visceral qualities Lumet offhandedly shows us what capable of: The climatic scene when the two gunmen and their remaining hostages drive up to a waiting jetliner is a scene of scenes capturing the hard core of urban-contemporary life Like another extraordinary film now playing Miami Flew Over the a crazy comical and eccentric movie ends with a sudden uppercut deep into the abdomen This ability alone to leap from one "Dog Day Afternoon" Is rated largely because ol its coarse explicit language There is sudden violence at the end SEBASTIAN LAFF-A-SECOND FOR HAPPY ADULTS JIMMY ROMA OFTTHETTMJMPEr' MAJOR MARC LEONARD OE THE HI-LIFERS REDIT CARDS SHOWllMES: 9 11 PM HONORED 1 MARDI GRAS BAR CHARLIE DOLAN SWINGING SINGING SHOW8AR SUSAN ROSE SENSATIONAL SINGER BARTENDER ATTRACTIVE RATES NOW IN EFFECT POOLS PRIVATE BEACH SUPERB DINING OPTIONAL MODIFIED AMERICAN PUN FREE TENNIS FREE SEIF PARKING COLOR TV IN MANY ROOMS By JOHN HUDDY Hrald Entrtalnmnt Editor Most superior films have one quality in common: They tell a crackling good story Director Sid- ney Lumet know how to tell a good yarn and he will tell one beginning today -I and perhaps for the next few months "Dog Day Afternoon" is the new Lumet film and a splendid meaty piece of show business circus theater and comedy a first-rate motion picture The performances by A1 Pacino John Cazale James Broderick and especially Charles Durning (as the New York detective sergeant) make Day" a movie of fascinating realism And writer Frank Pierson has compressed the story of this 12-i hour bank robbery into two hours of hard and quick rhythm thoroughly enjoy Day Afternoon" on any afternoon a Tall Tale based on a real-life incident one that occurred In Brooklyn on a hot August day in 1972 A homosexual bank robber fac- tng impossibly high debts and a 'confused bisexual love life decides to rob a branch bank to finance his male sex transfer operation From the truth-is-stranger-than-life department the gay bandit and his demented sidekick bungle the job take hostage the bank staff and then attempt to mastermind a daring escape through the streets of New York to a waiting jet Curiously the fact that A1 Pacino seems all wrong for the part be-1 cause of our own conditioning and because Pacino himself never convinces us that quite mad fails to do serious damage moving at flank speed at the beginning picks up its own steam and once under way no minor flaw can stop this Murder on the Brooklyn Express There are just too many good scenes that for all their wild comedy have the undeniable ring of truth (A good example: The police order pizza and pop for the bank robbers and their captives When the fopd arrives Pacino and the police sergeant argue politely over the bill take care of Insists the policeman de-mures character) THE COPS off-duty detectives with comical paunches cold-eyed FBI agents who are contemptuous of the three-ring circus created by city police look the part Indeed so does everyone as television and other media turn a clumsy crime a De Mille spectacle altering the behavior of criminals and lawmen alike But Is more than a trendy political piece or a faithful 'reproduction of the ever-popular New York City zoo In otherwise expert casting in masterful handling of difficult crowd sequences of near-riot proportions in supervising one of the better scripts and in turning a potentially ORIENTAL GARDENS 1559 SUNSET DRIVE FEATURING JAPANESE AND KOREAN CUISINE DIN! 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