DOG DAY AFTERNOON - WATCH PARTY

SAT, AUG 22 @ 5:30PM

On the 45th Anniversary of Dog Day Afternoon, the feath3r theory, hosts a watch party !!! 

Dog Day Afternoon is a 1975 American biographical crime drama film directed by Sidney Lumet, Starring Al Pacino, John Cazale, featuring Chris Sarandon. It chronicles the events following a bank robbery. It was Inspired by a 1972 Life magazine article “The Boys in the Bank” by P. F. Kluge. The film sticks fairly close to the true narrative. Two guys held up a small bank, through a series of comic and tragic misfires, this leads to a 14-hour standoff with the police. The hook of the story for many was the fact Wojtowicz was robbing the bank in the hopes of getting the funds for his partner Elizabeth Eden’s gender confirmation surgery. To this day Sonny Wortzik and his partner remain two of the highest profile LGBTQ characters in film history. But what about Eden?

The watch party will include an interview with actor Chris Sarandon, who played the role of Leon, based on Eden in Dog Day Afternoon and other figures in the LGBTQ+ community addressing representation, story-telling, community, the the search for self in popular culture and their production of WEDNESDAY.