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The Wild True Story Behind The French Connection's Car Chase – Filmed At 90 MPH On Real Streets With One Actual Crash

William Friedkin's 1971 action thriller features a famous chase scene that has gone down as one of the best in cinema, but filming the scene was quite risky. Friedkin's The French Connection opened to ...
The Stranger

What if The French Connection Were… French?

If nothing else, The Connection looks gorgeous—set in Marseille in the late ’70s and early ’80s, and shot on 35mm, it’s a movie that revels in its time and place, with Laurent Tangy’s sun-dappled ...
Gold Derby

‘Where’s the bag?’ Inside the high-octane chase scene on ‘Highest 2 Lowest’ inspired by ‘The French Connection’

The film's cinematographer breaks down the filming of the chaotic subway ride that was "too much" for Spike Lee.
ABC 7 Chicago

'The Exorcist,' 'The French Connection' director William Friedkin dead at 87

LOS ANGELES -- William Friedkin, the filmmaker behind 1973's adaptation of novelist William Peter Blatty's horror novel "The Exorcist," has died at age 87. Stephen Galloway, dean of Dodge College of ...
Newsweek

Film: The Connection captures the gutter charm of Marseille

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. It is in this fiery, hostile and hospitable place that the father of ...