Tag: the french connection
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The French Connection (1971)
For some filmmakers, the chance of a lifetime comes along, often by happenstance, when the right material is presented to them at the right time, and they decide to make a movie that will become one of the defining achievements of their career. For William Friedkin, after four productions which challenged him to adapt to…
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Good Times (1967)
American cinema lost one of its iconic filmmakers of the ‘New Hollywood’ era when William Friedkin passed away August 7. His most celebrated works stem from the 1970s, that great decade of commercial moviemaking when it seemed to audiences then (and especially now) that a new sense of filmmaking and the purpose of cinema was…
Sentiments of the Silver Screen 