In April 1972, The French Connection took home five Academy Awards, including Best Director for William Friedkin, Actor for Gene Hackman, and Picture for Philip D’Antoni. The film about a relentless ...

It all started a couple of weeks ago. Okay, actually it all started in 2021, but we’ll get to that. On June 3, the colorful internet columnist Jeffrey Wells posted a bit of information he’d received ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The French Connection: Film fans fume as classic 1971 movie is censored without explanation Film fans are expressing their fury ...

In director William Friedkin’s 1971 crime classic, “The French Connection,” two New York cops work to catch a massive heroin shipment from France. Gene Hackman plays pugnacious police officer Jimmy ...

Fifty years ago this month, William Friedkin’s “The French Connection” set a new benchmark for crime thrillers. The production was budgeted initially at $2 million by Twentieth Century-Fox. This was ...

Oscar-winning director William Friedkin, legendary filmmaker behind the 1971 crime thriller The French Connection, and 1973’s The Exorcist, among many others, died Monday in Los Angeles at the age of ...

Reid Goldberg is a features writer for Collider. Having grown up in the Midwest, he attended the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. While he's begrudingly accepted that a FIlm Studies degree wasn't ...

Colin Wessman is a Philadelphia-based writer who's trying his hand at freelancing for Collider. He spent several years writing for a video game/education company and even more years writing for the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shot in real traffic, among real pedestrians, Jurgensen said the stunt driver reached speeds of 65 miles per hour in a ...