HELLO I AM AN AL PACINO POLL

read this as HELLO I AM ANAL PACINO POLL

if his name were dunk, wouldn't he be dunkpacino, not dunkacino?

ok wtf is dunkaccino

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeLuQQH1OHA

one of robert smigel's best

PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK is a good film and as clemenza says, intriguingly outside pacino’s usual MO

Yes, it's an interesting low-key performance; I don't remember anything else about the film except that a dog comes to a bad fate on a ferry.
Last night I made a comment on the William Friedkin thread about another Pacino film omitted from this list, Cruising, quoting a review in a book called Movies on TV from 1981:

The basic narrative idea is that our growing discomfort with Pacino's convincing integration into his new environment and our growing fear that he may be developing some homicidal impulses of his own -- both are inextricably linked to our growing exhilaration of our release from fear as Pacino's savvy and power increase. Lurid, brutal, dehumanizing, but it does succeed in searing the audience.

I found Pacino a complete alien presence through the whole film, I certainly wasn't exhilarated at any point (and I don't really think he became savvy at any point either - desensitized, perhaps.

Looking at my Gucci, it's about that time: off to see whether Lady Gaga can chew scenery as voraciously as the master this afternoon.

Not nearly as campy as I was hoping: Jared Leto's performance (felt like I was watching Jeffrey Tambor the whole time) and Gaga/Driver's first sex scene are about it. Just very long and not all that interesting. Pacino's actually pretty good. Except for a vintage Italian cover of "I'm a Believer" by Caterina Caselli, the soundtrack is thoroughly unimaginative (and, when Driver and Gaga get married in 1972, laughingly arbitrary as to placement: "Faith").

83 years old today

LOL at this thread for including S1m0ne and Insomnia but not Cruising, Panic in Needle Park, and Looking for Richard.

Carlito's Way obv should've won.

Getting the shakes now, last call for drinks, bars closing down... Sun's out, where are we going for breakfast? Don't wanna go far. Rough night, tired baby... Tired...

I was flipping through a sale rack of DVDs and came across this from 2014:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1568343/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_14_act

Never heard of it. Pacino, Greta Gerwig, Barry Levinson, Buck Henry...no doubt terrible. It was $5, and I did consider buying it for the sheer weirdness of its existence (and for the brilliantly awkward title, too); didn't, then had second thoughts, then spent the next five minutes trying to find it again and couldn't. Which was pretty weird in itself--there were only about 100 DVDs on the rack.

(The title is not Levinson's--Philip Roth! I have just personally been subjected to the humbling.)