Al Pacino Celebrates 50th Anniversary of ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ With American Cinematheque Crowd, and Picks Surprise Favorite Roles From His Career

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Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Al Pacino spent time with some old friends, attending a 50th anniversary screening of “Dog Day Afternoon” at the American Cinematheque‘s Aero Theatre — those friends being the other collaborators he misses from making the classic bank-robbery-gone-wrong drama a half-century ago.

The avuncular Pacino also made a lot of new friends at the Aero, with Tuesday’s capacity crowd reveling not just in his tales of making “Dog Day Afternoon” but assorted takes on other aspects of his career. “Let’s just say it’s always a 50-year anniversary, you know,” Pacino said with a chuckle. “I mean, I did ‘The Godfather’ — it was 50 years; people celebrated — and I did ‘The Godfather Part II,’ which you got another, but I’m due on this one.” The 84-year-old acting giant was pinned down on what he now considers the favorite role of his career (spoiler: it’s not one of the three he mentioned when posed with the same question last year).

And he offered a teasing take on a part that is yet to be seen, his leading role in a recently wrapped “King Lear” adaptation.

There were some mixed feelings in seeing “Dog Day” afresh, he told the audience in Santa Monica. “A lot of those people who I was playing with, my fellow acting partners, a lot of them are gone.