The Connection
Newly transferred to the bustling port city of Marseille to assist with a crackdown on organized crime, energetic young magistrate Pierre Michel is given a rapid-fire tutorial on the ins and outs of an out-of-control drug trade. Pierre's wildly ambitious mission is to take on the French Connection, a highly organized operation that controls the city's underground heroin economy and is overseen by the notorious —and… From TMDB
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6 of 6 · most liked firstHere are some movies I’m going to nominate: bunch of Maya Deren films; Shirley Clarke’s “The Connection”; “Janie’s Janie” by the Newsreel Collective; Elaine May’s “The Heartbreak Kid” & “Mikey and Nicky”; Christine Choy’s “From Spikes to Spindles”; Fronza Woods’s “Killing Time” & “Fannie’s Film”
unlabelledView post →If you love #foundfootage, these are the two people to thank for their existence. Shirley Clarke made the first feature length fake doc, 1961’s THE CONNECTION. Three years later, Peter Watkins made 1964’s CULLODEN. Many other filmmakers are more well known, but they’re the ones who started it all
unlabelledView post →#Bales2026FilmChallenge #Bales2026MovieChallenge 8/15 Movie about music The Connection (1961) A group of heroin-addicted jazz musicians grow increasingly anxious as they wait for their dealer in a Manhattan loft apartment. #filmsky 📽️ #moviesky
unlabelledView post →Saturday's online Scarecrow Academy discussion will be about Shirley Clarke's THE CONNECTION (1961), part of our "Sixties on Film" semester. Do you like talking/thinking about the movies? This may be for you! It's free, too. 2pm Pacific Time. scarecrowvideo.org/posts/scarec...
unlabelledView post →#tcmparty real deal '61 avant film making, highest quality musicians too. Ultimately, The Connection about jazz culture. . . The Connection | The New Yorker share.google/eqh4Zj5hJwVN...
unlabelledView post →Chapter 2: Ambiguous Presentation and Visual Art: Polysemy in Valerie and Her Week of Wonders The Connection: Kuroda explores the surrealist Czech film/novel Valerie, which uses dream-logic, unstable timelines, and shifting character roles. It rejects straightforward, linear storytelling.
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