The French Connection | Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider | Captures time and place with grit and suspense

The French Connection | Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider | They don't make them like this anymore

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The French Connection

	The French Connection Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider 20th Century Fox, 2005 average customer review:based on 114 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Captures time and place with grit and suspense

This film comes very close to a documentary due to the camera technique , which helps the viewer feel more part of the story .

The police atmosphere and mundane aspect of the job is relayed well .

I was not in New York in the 70's , but thanks to this film I can imagine what parts of it were like . That just happens to be an interest of mine .

The director goes on about camera technique in rather an egocentric manner in the commentary and in the documentaries , which apart from that aspect , are very interesting in themselves .

Luckily , the whole 2 disc package is extremely good value .
Anything with Gene Hackman is worth seeing just for him , I find .

Try this package , as well you will gain an appreciation of not just the film , but also the thought that went into it .

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They don't make them like this anymore

A classic thriller with loads of international intrigue... other than Matt Damon in the Bourne movies, these thrillers are rare and of another era. Great to watch when you need intellectual excitement with political ramblings.

film blanc

if you have only seen gene hackman in the royal tenenbaums and get shorty, you gotta see this because he total tears it up, really dominant screen presence, it's pretty amazing

Good movie

I was only 14 when this movie came out. I did see it either as a teenager or in my twenties. To be honest, it's as difficult to keep track of now as then.

I think we all know what it's about and if not look elsewhere online. What I noticed was this wasn't a film aimed at my generation (Baby Boomer). It was for middle age people at that time tired of what they perceived as permissiveness. These guys were cracking down on drugs coming into our country. This movie came out when Nixon's modern-day "War on Drugs" began in 1971. Personally, I think it was a waste of time and money. Even in this film (fiction), nobody served in real time. Four years was the maxim given to one out of several people they were after.

One odd thing I noticed was Popeye Doyle's hat. He wore a pork pie. My dad wore a fedora until sometime in the '80s (he was born 1910). Men started to stop wearing hats when Kennedy came into office because he didn't were one. This film was made at a time men's hats were almost out of vogue. I noticed that men wearing them were at least 40, most closer to 50.

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