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SUBLIME CINEMA #661 - THE FRENCH CONNECTION

RIP William Friedkin. This is one of the most important films of the 70's and New Hollywood cinema, when American directors started taking fearless approaches to capturing the grit, bleakness and paranoia of the era, often in a style of unvarnished realism. I missed this entry because Friedkin had done so many great films, even later in his career, that this one is almost obvious.

#cinema #cinematography #film #movies #films #film stills #filmmaking #filmmaker #cinephile #william friedkin #the French connection #gene hackman #70s #new york #gritty #realism #nyc #New York film #Popeye #French connection #1970s #70s films

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Kate Moss for French Connection (1993)

#fashion #Kate Moss #french connection

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#New York Magazine #1981 #French Connection #Macys

[theworkshopmann]

French Connection

Clear comms

Type: Cosmetic/Misc

Class: Spy

Paintable: Yes

Accepted in game: No

This cosmetic was made by Steam users Kowalo and Earl De Darkwood. Posted on November 5th 2023, you can vote for this here!

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[yeahiwasintheshit]

so i was looking into the whole french connection censorship thing, and yes of course it was disney who without telling anyone censored the movie. (disney bought fox a few years ago, which made the movie.) so apparently disney just cut out what they didnt want from an oscar winning movie without acknowledging it and letting anyone know. the director, william friedkin just died so theres no indication that disney consulted him about the censorship of his movie. if anyone knows or seen friedkin in any interview youd know that fucking crazy guy would never agree to let that fucking mouse touch his movie lol.

so i dont know if anyone has seen the french connection, but central to the whole movies plot is that the main character, a guy named popeye doyle is a piece of shit racist cop who does what he thinks is the right thing to catch the bad guy. which of course that means he does the wrong thing most times. (SPOILERS he doesnt even catch the bad guy in the end) so in one line of dialogue, popeye says the n-word and this is what they censored from the oscar winning 1971 movie. the movie is r rated, by the way. for adults. the movie is over 50 years old, and depicts how racist cops openly spoke then. its illustrative of what a huge piece of shit the cop is. friedkin himself called popeye doyle a racist. hes making a point that the good guy is not the good guy. that the archetype cop who does any and everything even outside the law is BAD because it doesnt even lead to catching the bad guy. that these kinds of depictions of cops shouldnt be made into a hero. like so many movies have done.

disney in their fucking brilliance bought a studio that made thousands of movies over many many many decades, and instead of adding a card at the beginning of the movie that eventho disney doesnt agree with some of the language in the movie, the movie is being presented as the artist/director, friedkin, intended. they dont do that. fuckin disney is so fucking ridiculous, they dont bleep the line or dub it with another word. (which would be awful and terrible enough - this isnt network television) they just yank that line out of a scene between 2 people. so its this weird cut that breaks the flow of a scene. if disney is so fucking scared of someone somewhere saying disney is associated with the n word, than they shouldnt have bought a fucking studio whos been making movies for fucking decades! if fucking disney thinks their brand will be tarnished from rated r movies... movies for adults... than sell off those movies to someone else who will present the movie as the artist intended. and lets be clear, disney didnt cut any scenes of popeye doyle acting racist, just the one scene where he said the n word. disney is full of fucking hypocrites!

i read that disney cut it out from any streaming version, any versions that will be sold as physical media and any showings of the movie in theaters. the monopoly that disney holds is scary and gets scarier and scarier. they can and do so many things that are only for PR. they are scared of backlash, but its ridiculous that they would censor a movie without any acknowledgment. its not up tho them to tell an artist how to tell a story. its 100% censorship and its bullshit!

fuck disney!

#french connection #controversial

[imayauu]

Cute series of tweets years apart 🥰

#Misha’s tweets #misha collins #castiel #french connection #supernatural

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Fun day today 💗💗

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[thecatalogueofroyalfashion]

Princess Sofia || French Connection

#Princess Sofia #French Connection #dress #midi

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#hockey #vintage hockey #vintage #hockey history #history #old time hockey #retro hockey #retro #sabres #buffalo sabres #The French connection #French connection #rene Robert #rick Martin #Gilbert Perreault #1970s #1970s hockey #retro Sabres

[oblivioussloth]

timothée chalamet was grown in a vat to appear in Wes Anderson movies like I know he’s physically only appeared in one but seeing him in french connection was like seeing a frog on a lily pad

#Timothee chalamet #Wes Anderson #french connection #like the curls the way he looks like he dropped out of art school the fact that he has a french last name #this is the exact kind of twink Wes Anderson goes crazy for #just looking it up and oh my fucking god he’s even Jewish #like there’s being someone’s type and then there’s whatever the fuck Wes Anderson and timothee chalamet have going on #the grand budapest hotel #the royal tenenbaums

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Selena Gomez

French Connection Spirit Dress

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White airtex shirt by Future Classics from French Connection; navy/white bermuda shorts by Paul Smith; orange print silk scarf by Georgina von Etzdorf from Lords, Burlington Arcade; brown commando soled shoes by Alan McAfee; black cotton long socks from The Sock Shop

#arena magazine #hans pieter schneider #marcus von ackermann #french connection #1987 #paul smith #80s #alan mcafee

[lovefrenchisbetter]

FURSAC  VESTE EN SERGE DE COTON ET LIN JAUNE

#de fursac #gauthier borsarello #costume #suit #summer essentials #summer suit #essential homme #essentials #parisian aesthetic #parisian style #parisian vibe #parisian art #parisian homme #clean #minimalism #minimalist #french connection

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Drei vergessene Fortsetzungen

Three forgotten sequels

French Connection ll  (John Frankenheimer, USA, 1975) Meine Wertung: 5/10 (IMDb 6,7/10)

More American Graffiti (Bill Norton, 1979) Meine Wertung: 7/10 (IMDb 5,4/10)

2010 (Peter Hyams, 1984) Meine Wertung: 6/10 (IMDb 6,7/10)

English version below

French Connection ll

Popeye Doyle ist ohne Russo (Roy Scheider) in Marseille unterwegs um Bösewicht Charmier (Fernando Ray) zu schnappen, der am Ende von The French Connection entkommen kann. Der ganze Film spielt in Marseille und hat daher schon eine ganz andere Stimmung als der erste Teil, in dem das NYC der frühen siebziger Jahre eine wichtige Rolle spielt. Zwischen Doyle und seinem französischer Partner Barthélémy stimmt die Chemie nicht, was auch daran liegt, dass Doyle ihn unentwegt beschimpft. Überhaupt ist aus dem rauen, cholerischem aber liebenswerten Doyle ein hysterisch und hilfloser Unsympath geworden. Der komplette Mittelteil zeigt ihn als Heroinabhängigen (Charmier hat ihn entführen und unter Drogen setzen lassen) und anschließend den Entzug. Im Anschluß zündet Doyle das Hotel, in dem er gefangen gehalten wurde, an, was für ihn ohne Konsequenzen bliebt. Völlig unglaubwürdig. Und so zieht es sich bis zum unspektakulären Showdown, bei dem vor allem viel gelaufen wird.

Entertainment Weekly sieht das anders und gab dem Film volle 100% und schreibt: So etwas wie ein Kunstfilm - vielleicht der zutiefst absurdeste und pessimistischste Kriminalfilm, der je gedreht wurde.

Für den, der mehr vom original French Connection Feeling haben möchte, empfehle ich The Seven-Ups (1973) von Philip D'Antoni und mit Roy Scheider in der Hauptrolle.

Popeye Doyle und sein französischer Kollege Barthélémy - die Chemie stimmt nicht.

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More American Graffiti

Am Ende einiger Filme gibt es eine "Was aus ihnen wurde" Montage. Daraus einen ganzen Film machen? Viele Kommentare auf IMDb nennen More American Graffiti überflüssig und sinnlos. Aber wer hätte nicht gerne eine "Fortsetzung" von Animal House mit Belushi als Senator gesehen?

Zwar bliebt Curt (Dreyfuss) außen vor, aber das weitere Leben der meisten Nebencharaktäre - Terry, Debby, Millner etc. - wird anekdotenhaft beleuchtet. Jeweils Sylvester der Jahre '64 -' 67 steht eine Figur im Mittelpunkt. Technisch wird das Anekdotenhafte unterstützt durch dem massiven Einsatz von split screen und diversen Seitenverhältnissen, was dem Ganzen die Anmutung eines Fotoalbums gibt. Alles in allem kein Vergleich zum Original, aber eine unterhaltsame Ergänzung.

Milner fährt einen Sieg ein.

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2010 - Das Jahr, in dem wir Kontakt aufnehmen

Es bedarf mehrfachen Schauens und das der Film für mich perfekt ist, damit ich ihn mit 10/10 bewerte. Bei 2001 - a space Odyssee bin ich versucht 11/10 zu geben (aber ich bin ja nicht Nigel Tufnel).

Ohne den SF-Hype nach Star Wars, Alien etc. hätte es wohl auch keine Fortsetzung von 2001 gegeben. Clarke veröffentlichte das Buch 1982 und MGM sicherte sich gleich die Rechte. Kubrick war nicht interessiert und der mittelmäßige Regisseur Peter Hyams übernahm. Im Vergleich mit anderen SF-Filmen dieser Zeit, Star Trek, The Black Hole, etc. kann sich 2010 durchaus noch sehen lassen. Gute Tricks, Syd Mead Design und vor allem eine genuine Story.

Aber mit letzterem sind wir auch beim Problem. Russisch und amerikanische Astronauten reisen zusammen zum Jupiter um den Monolith dort zu untersuchen. Währenddessen spitzt sich die Lage zwischen den beiden Weltmächten auf der Erde bis zur Schwelle des Atomkrieges zu.

Die Sovietunion zerfiel aber sechs Jahre später und bereits vor dem Jahr 2010 wirkte der Film 2010 weniger wie ein Science Fiction, den wie Alternativ Reality. Erst durch den Krieg Russland gegen die Ukraine und der wieder greifbaren Möglichkeit eines globalen Konflikts erlangt der Film wieder mehr Aktualität. Und mancher wünscht sich, dass eine zweite Sonne am Himmel erscheint und die Politiker zur Vernunft bringt. Retten würde uns das allerdings nicht. Eine zweite Sonne würde die Erde erhitzen und heutige Szenarien von Klimawandel lächerlich erscheinen lassen. Das hat man damals noch nicht bedacht.

Arthur C. Clarke und Stanley Kubrick als Staatsoberhäupter - ein kleiner Witz am Rande.

Bevor ich die Filme wiedergesehen habe, hätte ich sie anders bewertet. Wirklich enttäuscht bin ich von French Connection ll. More American Graffiti funktioniert nur für Menschen, die auch den ersten kennen und 2010 werden junge Menschen heute kaum noch nachzuvollziehen können.

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English version

French Connection ll

Popeye Doyle is without Russo (Roy Scheider) in Marseille to catch villain Charmier (Fernando Ray), who manages to escape at the end of The French Connection. The whole film takes place in Marseille and therefore already has a very different atmosphere than the first part, in which the NYC of the early seventies plays an important role. There is no chemistry between Doyle and his French partner Barthélémy, which is also due to the fact that Doyle constantly insults him. In general, the rough, choleric but lovable Doyle has become a hysterical and helpless unsympathetic character. The entire middle section shows him as a heroin addict (Charmier has had him kidnapped and drugged) and then in withdrawal. Afterwards, Doyle sets fire to the hotel where he was held captive, which has no consequences for him. Completely unbelievable. And so it drags on until the unspectacular showdown, in which above all there is a lot of running.

Entertainment Weekly sees it differently and gave the film full 100%, writing: Something like an art film - perhaps the most profoundly absurd and pessimistic crime film ever made.

For those who want more of the original French Connection feeling, I recommend The Seven-Ups (1973) by Philip D'Antoni and starring Roy Scheider.

Popeye burning down the house.

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More American Graffiti

At the end of some films there is a "what became of them" montage. Make a whole film out of that? Many comments on IMDb call More American Graffiti superfluous and pointless. But who wouldn't have liked to see a "sequel" to Animal House with Belushi as a senator?

While Curt (Dreyfuss) is left out, the continuing lives of most of the supporting characters - Terry, Debby, Millner, etc. - are anecdotally illuminated. One character takes centre stage each New Year's Eve of the years '64 -' 67. Technically, the anecdotal nature is supported by the massive use of split screen and various aspect ratios, which gives the whole thing the feel of a photo album. All in all, no comparison to the original, but an entertaining addition.

Milner, Toad, Laurie, Steve and Debbie met again.

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2010 - The Year We Make Contact

It takes multiple viewings and the film being perfect for me to rate it 10/10. With 2001, I'm tempted to give it 11/10 (but then I'm not Nigel Tufnel).

Without the SF hype after Star Wars, Alien etc, I don't think there would have been a sequel to 2001. Clarke published the book in 1982 and MGM secured the rights straight away. Kubrick was not interested and the mediocre director Peter Hyams took over. Compared to other SF films of the time, Star Trek, The Black Hole, etc., 2010 is still quite respectable. Good tricks, Syd Mead design and above all a genuine story.

But the latter brings us to the problem. Russian and American astronauts travel together to Jupiter to investigate the monolith there. Meanwhile, on Earth, the situation between the two world powers escalates to the brink of nuclear war.

But the Soviet Union disintegrated six years later and even before the year 2010 the film 2010 seemed less like science fiction and more like alternative reality. It is only with Russia's war against Ukraine and the tangible possibility of a global conflict that the film has regained its relevance. And some people wish that a second sun would appear in the sky and bring the politicians to their senses. But that would not save us. A second sun would heat up the earth and make today's climate change scenarios seem ridiculous. That was not considered at the time.

Before I saw the films again, I would have rated them differently. I am really disappointed by French Connection ll. More American Graffiti only works for people who also know the first one and in 2010 young people today will hardly be able to follow it.

#arthouse #b movie #hollywood #movie #american graffiti #george lucas #2001 a space odyssey #2010 #french connection #john frankenheimer #sequel

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A Royal Recycling (part 125)

French Connection

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