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The Smartest Man in the World

Greg Proops Film Club: Dog Day Afternoon

The Smartest Man in the World

Greg Proops

Comedy

4.62.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2013

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Back at Los Angeles' Cinefamily, Greg screens Sidney Lumet's 1975 crime picture "Dog Day Afternoon"

Transcript

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Ladies and gentlemen, Greg Peruz.

0:20.0

There's no business like show.

0:24.0

There's no business like no business I know.

0:29.0

Welcome back once again to the Greg Peruz film club as we convene here in the darken hallway at the end of the tennis you corridor of the Fairfax end of the Delhi block near the weird new gas station that no one knows the brand of.

0:43.0

Here in the salubriest confines of Sinifamily L.A.'s third leading architect of cinema repository reductive reflective and in repertoire always here.

0:57.0

The Sinifamily here on Fairfax Avenue is where the Greg Peruz film club is coming to you this time.

1:01.0

Tonight we're going to be showing Sydney limits 1975 classic bank high stroke psychosexual stroke political activist thriller dog day after noon.

1:12.0

And it's going to be perfect.

1:16.0

If you're proof casting out there in proof cast line proof sailing around in your proof sailor and or a bad in your proof chamber watching your flat screen.

1:25.0

It's about time to light one up or it's about time to pull one down or it's about time to get one down your neck as they say it's also getting time to cue that film up.

1:34.0

I don't know how you can prolong a copy of dog day afternoon if you don't have one I'm hoping you could piece together a YouTube version.

1:41.0

Sometimes you can do that otherwise I would just steal one.

1:46.0

If there's any place left in your neighborhood the blockbuster in my neighborhood closed a couple of months ago or I read it on my space.

1:54.0

And thank you very much.

2:00.0

This picture is a wild we've been on a 70s jag on the show for Christmas.

2:04.0

We should scrooge which is from 1970 no not scrooge but the musical scrooge by Leslie Gricky's thank you with Albert Finney.

2:12.0

It's a marvelous Christmas picture and then we should taking a poem one two three last month and now dog day afternoon these are all my wife's requests.

2:19.0

Scrooge was mine.

2:22.0

Dog day and pal more her choices and I couldn't agree more I think it's the apex of 70s filmmaking you've all read the book.

2:29.0

The name of which I've just recently forgotten at the beginning of that sentence easy riders and what.

2:37.0

Yeah raising bulls and easy riders and raising and raising bulls and air and riders that are easy was the name it was an easy rod and bull extravaganza and it's quite a good book.

2:47.0

And it really goes into depth about all the 70s pictures and 75 I know it's a personal predilection of mine because as I described everyone in the 70s has to wear high callers and bell bottoms and plaid and there's a lot of comb over type hairdos and this one this movie doesn't have a walk a walk a soundtrack.

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