John Cazale’s too-brief career is the very definition of quality over quantity; before his tragic death of lung cancer in 1978 at age 42, the Massachusetts native appeared in exactly five films, every one of them part of the canon of New Hollywood cinema, every one nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. We’re playing all five—The GodfatherThe ConversationThe Godfather Part IIDog Day Afternoon, and The Deer Hunter—so come out and see this intense, arresting character actor with a body of work that’s the cinematic equivalent of a Royal Flush. “It is the lives and works of people like John Cazale that make filmgoing worthwhile.”—David Thomson

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