When Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle (Gene Hackman) was watching drug smuggler Alain Charnier (Fernando Rey) at the docks bringing his his car full of heroin into the US, you could see what looked like the south end of Manhattan behind Hackman and his working partner
My wife says the WTC was under construction in 1971...so could be.?
This is the trailer for The French Connection (1971) starting Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider. Directed by William Friedkin.
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The 84th Oscar nominations were announced two days ago, and the mediocrity of the year in film was evident based on the honored pictures. Looking closely at the nominations, the Academy also revealed just how political they are in their selections.
Instead of honoring the truly deserving films that are in the realm of fan-fare – action, comedy or science-fiction genres – the Academy members select those works that are more traditional productions. The Academy picks and chooses who they wish to nominate, as producers like Harvey Weinstein and Scott Rudin cloud the voters’ judgment with their impressive and expensive campaigns.
Two years ago, the Academy Awards expanded the Best Picture category from five to 10 films. This move was believed to have been made in response to the crowd-pleaser “The Dark Knight” not receiving the honor. The fifth spot instead went to the bland picture “The Reader,” which was produced by Academy favorite Harvey Weinstein.
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William Friedkin to serve as LA Film Fest's guest director William Friedkin, the Academy Award-winning director of 1971's "The French Connection," will serve as guest director of the Los Angeles Film Festival and will screen his new NC-17 movie, "Killer Joe," on June 15, organizers said Tuesday. |
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The French Connection at The Belcourt A mix of dogged procedure, moral ambivalence, semi-doc grit and balls-out pursuit, William Friedkin's new-breed 1971 cop thriller was one of the sensations of a movie year that included The Last Picture Show, A Clockwork Orange, McCabe and Mrs. Miller |
Tracing Present Scars to Past Traumas
In 1971, while the women's liberation movement — and other social and political upheavals — challenged old ways in the United States, the part of the Eastern Hemisphere was rived by these two wars. Casualty estimates of the Bangladesh war,
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11 Ideas That Changed Film The car chase perfected in such films as Bullitt (1968), The Italian Job (1969), and The French Connection (1971) confirmed a younger generation's taste for speed and spectacle, which continues to impinge upon the blockbusters of today. |
FILM OF THE WEEK: The Connection (1962)
by Vadim Rizov Though credulous French viewers allegedly mistook it for vérité footage at Cannes, Shirley Clarke's 1962 drama The Connection is unmistakably a filmed play. A camera swoop through a ratty New York apartment halts for a sweaty,
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@ congrats on your ND winning. doing well, just saw 1971's 'The French Connection' and now see its raining in Texas. who you?
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1971: The film The French Connection released in the US
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