Kenneth Turan’s DVD pick of the week: Films with animals in the title
<p>Kenneth Turan’s DVD Pick of the Week: Animals in the title; Dog Day Afternoon and The Bear.</p>
Two modern classics are united not just by having animals in the title but also by having significant anniversary editions coming out this month.
From Warner Bros. comes the 40th-anniversary edition of Sidney Lumet’s “Dog Day Afternoon,” starring Al Pacino and the late John Cazale in a New York City bank robbery tale unlike any other.
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From Shout Factory comes the 25th-anniversary edition of “The Bear,” directed by France’s Jean-Jacques Annaud, a film that not only has the word “bear” in the title but is actually about a bear and its travails in the wilderness. More than that, it stars the legendary Bart the Bear, perhaps the greatest ursine actor ever. If you don’t believe bears can act, “The Bear” will change your mind.
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