Pacino fan? Man, Al has gone to hell since "And Justice for All."
"Dog Day Afternoon" was based on a true incident that occurred in Midwood, although it was filmed on 7th Avenue in Park Slope (that pizzeria featured in the movie was still there until about five years ago. It ALWAYS comes back to pizza). Best scene in the film is when Al is talking on the phone with Chris Sarandon.
Preferred French Connection over Serpico. Despite Friedkin's overindulgent homage to Nouvelle Vague handheld cameras, you have to love a movie whose main chase scene was filmed in ACTUAL traffic on 86th street in Brooklyn (where Tony Manero would strut just six years later).
My mother, who missed NYC so much, that I got taken to lots of NYC-set films (minus the more violent ones, which I didn’t get to see until much later) from the late ‘70s onward. Did you get dragged in to see Pacino’s “Author ! Author !” ? Well, I was 8, but had a crush on Ari Meyers for years...
I just finished watching one of the most underrated movies of all time (mainly because it's an action/shoot-em-up movie but is extremely realistic and well done, with great character development and storylines) . . . "Heat" with both Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro.
I've heard it described as the quintessential "Los Angeles movie."