TRUE CRIME MONTH: DOG DAY AFTERNOON

It's True Crime Month at Normal Cinema Club, and we're considering how our recent obsession has shaped the world we lived in today, where conspiracies, felonies and atrocities lie around every corner.

DOG DAY AFTERNOON is a bonafide, baked-into-the-culture classic. We know and love Attica don't we folks? It's a blazing highlight of New Hollywood and features Al Pacino at the height of his powers (acting-wise and sexy-wise).

In 1972, John Wojtowicz, Salvatore Naturile and Robert Westenberg attempted to rob a bank. Wojtowicz claimed it was to pay for his wife's sexual reassignment surgery. Three years later, the story becomes a big Hollywood picture. Directed by the legendary Sidney Lumet, starring the mythic Al Pacino and John Cazale and feautring a venerable cast of 70s character actors, it received the big-money capital-M movie treatment.

How does this true story of a true crime translate to the big screen? Does the transmogrification from truth to fiction alter how we perceive the crime? Is the depiction of queerness and gender really sympathetic and progressive, or a transgressive element intended to shock and titillate? Or was it all just Oscar fodder? Maybe we'll find out, but at the very least we'll ponder it.

Prior to the film, we will screen an exclusive original film from desmorelda , a meditation on the true nature of true crime.

This screening will take place in The Deer's Head. Doors will open at 7pm with the film beginning at 8pm. The feature will be presented with subtitles. This is a strictly 18+ event.

Normal Cinema Club is supported by FilmHubNI and wishes to thank The Deer's Head for their support.

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