• moonbairn@lemmy.film
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    1 year ago

    French Connection has one of the greatest car chase scenes in film history. Popeye Doyle was a great bad ass cop with serious anger issues.

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      1 year ago

      Every few years I return to French Connection, and the gritty realism, a lot of which was reportedly filmed without permits, guerrilla-style, blows me away every time. New Hollywood indeed!

      Then there’s the way the title cards and music set an incredible tone, grab you by the neck from the very get-go. This must have been astonishing in 1971. Hell… it won the Oscar for Best Film!

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    1 year ago

    I don’t care what everyone says: Killer Joe was one of the best films of that year and is incredibly funny.