Al Pacino

Al Pacino's name turns up in six places in the archive, and in five of those six he is cited as the measure of some later film. Philip Kemp weighs a comedy's shortfall against the transformation in The Godfather Part II; Geoffrey Macnab takes another film's hero for a late-born version of that same part. Danny Leigh writes that it is futile to look in one ending for the helpless poignancy at the close of Donnie Brasco. Macnab, in a further piece, recalls the courtship technique in Scent of a Woman, and Edward Lawrenson calls Insomnia his film outright. The archive measures him as a performer throughout, while our catalogue also has him directing three works. The two David di Donatello items he won sit on the acting side as well, the foreign actor category in 1974 for Serpico and a special David in 1973 whose film the archive does not record.