GENE HACKMAN WITH ROY SCHEIDER IN 'THE FRENCH CONNECTION'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKMb7AxHMg6bciaQsv7VhcKHCZSGVY0vxgip4ot8YOtcsvXptxL4WOvt0nuKwWqjgoSokHRbiE4LLoLMO4o4yhzchUOkeoaf0GRq65ckobuXlsVSV2PiXUi8RjvzBVczAyQiIcVs01NR-K2aTJSXItR9C8knL1s9Sgly1_oK2DYWVfxBbD1bpdcf8SgFBK/s1624/Screen%20Shot%202025-03-03%20at%203.23.54%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="952" data-original-width="1624" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKMb7AxHMg6bciaQsv7VhcKHCZSGVY0vxgip4ot8YOtcsvXptxL4WOvt0nuKwWqjgoSokHRbiE4LLoLMO4o4yhzchUOkeoaf0GRq65ckobuXlsVSV2PiXUi8RjvzBVczAyQiIcVs01NR-K2aTJSXItR9C8knL1s9Sgly1_oK2DYWVfxBbD1bpdcf8SgFBK/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-03-03%20at%203.23.54%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE FRENCH CONNECTION Shown: Gene Hackman, Marcel Bozzuffi Year: 1971 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>After becoming a legendary yet sometimes difficult actor, Gene Hackman would put vulnerable young directors through the ringer, ranging from two of his best known films, HOSSIERS and THE ROYAL TENNENBAUMS... and years earlier, the Oscar-winning blockbuster that turned him from a recurring co-star into a bonafide movie star, THE FRENCH CONNECTION, was not much different...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Except that William Friedkin didn't bend to Hackman's initial reluctance to fully<i> </i>embrace the sordid, uncompromising nature of New York City cop Popeye Doyle within the pallid purgatory aesthetic... ironically encroached by classy and sophisticated French drug-smuggler Fernando Rey aka "Frog One" (with deadly henchman Marcel Bozzuffi)... </p><span></span>

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GENE HACKMAN WITH ROY SCHEIDER IN 'THE FRENCH CONNECTION'

Title: THE FRENCH CONNECTION Shown: Gene Hackman, Marcel Bozzuffi Year: 1971 Rating: ****1/2 After becoming a legendary yet sometimes diffic...

WILLIAM FRIEDKIN'S UNDERRATED THIRD MASTERPIECE 'SORCERER'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW8m81FKUXVwIl4iNbZFupyLWopyP0TKeBJFf9ZPYWt73IOoZySp4EISM18w1249tNmyImuwlgqp_40pbr14H5KmpnaGkPtVHJSs6RjCNpEJESWhQh9_fomUv12Ms49u1_YJmvDJToaUy-8qWwP6rCEVnlY1QlAZPOMfl9zqUiXdb1nNJO3BUkhwt1SIpQ/s2208/Screen%20Shot%202023-08-13%20at%204.16.09%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1180" data-original-width="2208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW8m81FKUXVwIl4iNbZFupyLWopyP0TKeBJFf9ZPYWt73IOoZySp4EISM18w1249tNmyImuwlgqp_40pbr14H5KmpnaGkPtVHJSs6RjCNpEJESWhQh9_fomUv12Ms49u1_YJmvDJToaUy-8qWwP6rCEVnlY1QlAZPOMfl9zqUiXdb1nNJO3BUkhwt1SIpQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-08-13%20at%204.16.09%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Roy Scheider in SORCERER Year: 1977 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In THE EXORCIST, director William Friedkin literally brought us to the gates of Hell, making him the perfect director for SORCERER... only here taking us deep <i>inside</i> a jungle purgatory where four flawed and extremely hopeless characters from different parts of the world... with nowhere else to go and not a dime to get there, even if there was a possible way out... </p><p>A kind of death sentence where the inhabitants are unlucky enough to still be around... A living for dying jungle village that's no cliche and isn't symbolic or artsy: looking like a gritty hybrid of sadistic voyeurism and third world documentary b-roll... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><span></span>

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WILLIAM FRIEDKIN'S UNDERRATED THIRD MASTERPIECE 'SORCERER'

Roy Scheider in SORCERER Year: 1977 Rating: ****1/2 In THE EXORCIST, director William Friedkin literally brought us to the gates of Hell, m...

THE FRIEDKIN WAVE: EXORCST MEETS FRENCH CONNECTION

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeHzd55c_c2ghEUBSfrM8g85lkHEQdWRRNWJLFFtiXlaC8iCMoNWU_RR3EnZ5nlS35jp1I86MdMYXMaUiAC4rMf0TkJa5fIjRb1lLGykXGcjva8o_vJMfuX10n5qCEErY-nspLiF5UoKsp/s947/120235767_1076711666091342_4907259652741418304_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="946" data-original-width="947" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeHzd55c_c2ghEUBSfrM8g85lkHEQdWRRNWJLFFtiXlaC8iCMoNWU_RR3EnZ5nlS35jp1I86MdMYXMaUiAC4rMf0TkJa5fIjRb1lLGykXGcjva8o_vJMfuX10n5qCEErY-nspLiF5UoKsp/s16000/120235767_1076711666091342_4907259652741418304_n.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Gene Hackman meets Pazuzu connecting William Friedkin's The French Connection & The Exorcist</u><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>Turns out that Pazuzu the Demon Statue from William Friedkin's THE EXORCIST was merely channeling goading cop Gene Hackman in his earlier Oscar-winning THE FRENCH CONNECTION. <br /><p></p>

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THE FRIEDKIN WAVE: EXORCST MEETS FRENCH CONNECTION

Gene Hackman meets Pazuzu connecting William Friedkin's The French Connection & The Exorcist Turns out that Pazuzu the Demon Statue ...

WILLIAM FRIEDKIN DIRECTS CHEVY CHASE IN 'DEAL OF THE CENTURY'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-ovJba-kF2HLbCv5ogxip74BlEWDogejUx1kESoMCoZDZ-6Je1vk0uLIkSVH0IvtY9eO7xfKnYeZzPv371gUBwmWKqDu3JzxF_K-MBvk3Z2nWmzwG-rUWntIkThnzGYcKXCC_MtHcxpmfLf2EBwbJ1Z6WUR02Cj9o_orQ0vRRRVFUe78gBAPBpwKWpbar/s1152/Screen%20Shot%202023-08-13%20at%204.19.18%20AM.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="728" data-original-width="1152" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-ovJba-kF2HLbCv5ogxip74BlEWDogejUx1kESoMCoZDZ-6Je1vk0uLIkSVH0IvtY9eO7xfKnYeZzPv371gUBwmWKqDu3JzxF_K-MBvk3Z2nWmzwG-rUWntIkThnzGYcKXCC_MtHcxpmfLf2EBwbJ1Z6WUR02Cj9o_orQ0vRRRVFUe78gBAPBpwKWpbar/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-08-13%20at%204.19.18%20AM.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>1983 rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table>Playing like an unfunny FLETCH or a pointless SPIES LIKE US, this 1980's political comedy stars Chevy Chase as a glib arms dealer with askew charm and moral ambiguity, venturing throughout a third world country, and then back home, without a care in the world: just as long as he's paid.<br /> <br /> Sidekick Gregory Hines and love interest Sigourney Weaver add little to this dated mess directed by William Friedkin who, at this point, couldn't direct traffic. And as anti-cold-war comedies go, this makes BEST DEFENSE seem like DR. STRANGELOVE. The poster to this film has the three leads, Chevy Chase, Gregory Hines and Sigourney Weaver with their thumbs out. Chase and Hines are giving thumbs up, and Weaver's thumb is down. She's got the right idea.  <br />

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WILLIAM FRIEDKIN DIRECTS CHEVY CHASE IN 'DEAL OF THE CENTURY'

1983 rating: ** Playing like an unfunny FLETCH or a pointless SPIES LIKE US, this 1980's political comedy stars Chevy Chase as a glib a...