Cleveronix A different way of telling a story

SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

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cinemajesty Film Review: "The French Connection" (1971)Winning "Best Picture" on April 10th 1972 over highly-provocative, in some circles favored, "A Clockwork Orange" produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) toward an overly-fortunate, due to 40 time multiplying production budget at the U.S. domestic box office alone, producer Philip D'Antoni and the righteous award for "Best Director" toward 36-year-old uprising free-creative William Friedkin in order to deliver his world-wide-audience shocking novel-adaptated screen version of "The Exorcist" (1973) two years later, when this New York City cop-drama meets suspense-beats-of-excellence delivers at that time of conception new-age action-thrills due to relentless-chasing camera operations ingnited by cinematographer Owen Roizman, pushing hands-on action beats to live-performances by a deadly triangle two cops on one criminal on foot, in cars and trains, portrayed in haunting fashions by Academy-Award-winning Gene Hackman, at age 40, in best form to maximized worldview despair of an overly-clever drug-trafficking Fernando Rey (1917-1994), when Roy Scheider (1932-2008) as also-Oscar-nominated supporting character Buddy Russo brings moral stability in an early received action-thriller motion picture for any generation to indulge on, shot on gritty urban New York State locations on constant running 35mm "technicolor" -timed film-stock finished with a 100-Minute-Cut deliverance of a young filmmaker, who like no others made the most of talented cast and independent budget given to him in comparable Academy-Award "Best Picture" wins in eighty-nine years of Oscar-history since its first reception on May 16th 1929.© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

SimonJack "The French Connection" is a gritty, harsh film that looks at the underworld of drug dealing and efforts of the law to bring down the big narcotics dealers. This is an intense film that tries to show the real world of the drug scene in New York City. The R rating is serious, and many adults may find this film unsettling. It is a good film as a study of the subject, based on a book about two real New York police detectives in the 1960s. But it clearly is not entertainment. The screenplay has been fictionalized. The performances across the board are excellent. This film won five Oscars, including four of the five top honors. It won best picture for 1972, and William Freiedkin won as best director. Gene Hackman walked away with the best actor Oscar and Ernest Tidyman scored for the best writing of a screenplay based on another source. Only the best actress of the top five awards was missing – and that because there wasn't a major female role in the film. "The French Connection" also was the first R-rated movie, since the MPAA ratings began in November 1968, to win a best picture Oscar. As of this writing (January 2017), every best picture Oscar winner—except one, since 2004 has been an R-rated film. "The French Connection" also ushered in an era of new crime films. They deal more with the gritty, seedy and often crude operations involving the underworld and law and order. Some quick ones on the heels of this film were "The Godfather" in 1972, "Serpico" in 1973," The French Connection II" in 1975, and on through "Scarface" of 1983 and to the present day.These are far from family films, and many adults may not like them. I don't know that one would consider this film entertainment, but it is interesting. I watch such films occasionally because they show a side of a real world that most people don't otherwise see or know. They are disturbing, and that should be a good sign for viewers who don't want such a culture to flourish.

Desertman84 Gene Hackman and Roy Schneider star in this action drama thriller about the life of two New York City policemen that hunt down drug dealers based on the non-fiction novel written by Robin Moore entitled The French Connection.This was based on the real lives of Narcotics Detectives Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso. William Friedkin directed this 70's film that won five Academy Awards.Alain Charnier is a French drug kingpin who distributes a big percentage of drugs in New York City.He's got a hired killer and a right-hand man in Nicoli. New York City detectives, Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle and Buddy "Cloudy" Russo starts to do their investigation by putting a surveillance on Sal Boca and his wife,Angie,who are living extravagantly despite having a corner store that does not earn that much.Later,they found out that the couple do work for Charnier,who smuggles $32 million worth of heroin from France into the city.Both Popeye and Cloudy try to put a stop to these illegal acts to put a stop into the drug problem of New York.This definitely deserves the highest rating of 10/10. Despite the movie being more than 40 years since it was initially released, we get to see that the issue of narcotics remain a big problem in the country today.The process of putting a stop to Charnier was definitely told with lots of gritty realism.Aside from that,we also get to see interesting characters who are the good guys of the film with a lot of character flaws.It was definitely unusual back in the 70's to see heroes like Popeye to be violent,racist and having a mean- spirit.Aside from that,it was definitely full of violent scenes that would still excite many viewers of today.And what about the ending?That was really something considering we see the drug kingpin escape from the detectives to the bitterness of Popeye.No question that the performances of the film are worthy of an Academy Award especially Gene Hackman as Popeye and it deserves the Oscar for Best Picture in 1972 for the story was told in a fast-paced and the chase sequences were definitely explosive and full of suspense.

Paulo Meireles Neto I thought I would see an intelligent movie with great actors about a dense scheme that deeply concerned the authorities, considering the score and fame here in IMDb. 5 Oscars? That was a little too much. Well, it is just a badly directed movie from start to end with poor ideas... And the scenes are poorly edited as well. Lousy. Completely lousy.They could have made a complex and brilliant movie about the scheme as a whole, featuring dense characters. However, they chose to make a tom & jerry kinda of movie with a simplistic approach - dumb cops chasing even dumber criminals. I only gave score 2 because I enjoyed Fernando Rey's performance even though his character was completely shallow. I don't recommend you to read what was the real scheme or you will get even more frustrated due to the fact that it wasn't just a French crime boss walking around as a lone wolf desperately trying to sell 60 Kg of cocaine in less than a week. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Connection