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The French Connection [Blu-ray]

Gene Hackman (Actor), Fernando Rey (Actor), William Friedkin (Director) Rated:

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Genre	Action & Adventure
Format	Multiple Formats, AC-3, Blu-ray, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Contributor	Fernando Rey, Gene Hackman, Tony Lo Bianco, Marcel Bozzuffi, William Friedkin, Roy Scheider
Language	English
Runtime	1 hour and 44 minutes

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Welcome to the Filmmakers Signature Series on Blu-ray. Enjoy this highly acclaimed, realistic crime drama from innovative director William Friedkin with authentic high-quality picture and sound, true to the director's vision. This new HD transfer comes with an exclusive 28-page booklet on the making of the film, which includes in-depth actor and director profiles. Based on a true story, the French Connection stars Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider as detectives who aim their sharp instincts and unconventional methods at the international suppliers of New York's heroin trade. The French Connection earned 8 Academy Award« Nominations and 5 Wins,* including Best Director for groundbreaking "New Hollywood" director Friedkin.

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Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.85:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 4 Ounces
Item model number ‏ : ‎ 25524681
Director ‏ : ‎ William Friedkin
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, AC-3, Blu-ray, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 44 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ March 6, 2012
Actors ‏ : ‎ Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider, Tony Lo Bianco, Marcel Bozzuffi
Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ French, Spanish
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ Spanish, English
Studio ‏ : ‎ 20th Century Studios
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B008YAPRPG
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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A. Jarry

I love this film so much I actually paid to watch it

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 17, 2022

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Thrilling classic, the one that started all those car chase imitations. Hackman is priceless as the unabashed a-hole brutal cop Popeye Doyle. No picking your feet in Pokeepsie

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Gail M. Gary

I used to love this movie; now I wonder what I saw in it...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 31, 2011

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For years, I loved the weird music and the pacing of this movie. The scene where they're stewing over why the car weighs too much and how to find the hidden stuff. The fantastic setup of the ending. And the City of New York---so gritty and ugly-beautiful. This movie showed me the New York visual that I remembered from when I was a kid. New York itself as another actor in the movie...essential stuff. Image upon image piling up. Winning me over. Taking me along.

Trouble is, I hadn't bothered to see this movie from the true beginning of the film for quite a few years...I seemed to always be picking up on this movie on TV when it was about 30-45 minutes in. So I always saw it at its best. When I finally watched it right from the beginning four or five years ago, after I bought the movie for myself, I was appalled at how tissue-paper much of this movie's emotional heart was: Popeye Doyle is an obsessed character without depth or even much intelligence. He has very little personality---just a mouth, really. Roy Scheider is decorative and a supporter of Doyle, a bit of a Greek chorus to Doyle's schemings, but not much else. The racism and general bullying nature of the Popeye character is painful and even embarrassing to me now...why did I ever like this movie? The humanity is entirely missing. It's just cars, buildings, music. When Doyle pleads his case ("let me do this, I know I can do it", his superiors don't care. I find that I don't care either. He isn't convincing. He's just a mouth under a hat. Why DO they let him? We never really see why. He just DOES it. No one discusses anything. It all just happens. (I know this is Friedkin's style, but it's not working for me in this movie anymore. I've grown up.)

Hmmm. The movie's good points now? It's a tarnished idol. A time-slice, the first of its gritty cop-movie, fast-paced, tell-it-like-it-is, don't stop for breath, chase-scene kind, admittedly. But to weigh its merits now presents a true dilemma. As long as I don't watch it from the beginning, it's pretty good. Maybe even more than that, at times. It has much of the old gritty magic...but it isn't worth the "it's a masterpiece" rhetoric anymore. It has spooky-good bits but a lot of that has to do with the marriage of the visual pace with the occasional musical score; it supplies a disjointed but jarring emotional link that the characters themselves cannot give you, they are too disaffected.

This movie's early scene featuring NYC gritty cop reality laced with racial bullying just makes me feel bad and embarrassed as a white person, frankly. And as horrible as drugs and heroin and the overall heroin trade seem to me (and always has), I just don't think society cares about getting rid of it to the extent that it once did. So that single-mindedness seems kinda crazy now, kinda Hollywood-exaggerated. There's just too many other crises to deal with that are Level 10 nowadays. And the later bit about Doyle commandeering the citizen's car just seems...delusional and a total classic authority-gone-mad-power-trip from the past, representative of when cops and officials were allowed to do whatever they pleased, seemingly...yeah, a cop can just run into the middle of the street and stop somebody, pull them bodily out of their car, jump into their car, drive it away, smash it up, and it's OK...police business...he's just being a cop. It makes this movie's car-chase seem like a slice of bad 70s TV...and it's probably this exact movie that inspired much of the bad 70s cop crap we had to watch back then.

Now, I don't have any sentiment against cops. The opposite of that, if anything. I respect them and thank God they're there. Always have. But Popeye Doyle is an embarrassment from an embarrassing, notoriously corrupt era, and I don't think you should bother with this movie unless you realize it is very dated now. Man, that bit where Doyle goes in the bar and insults and slaps around all the black drug dealers in there (because every single person in the crowded bar is both black and automatically assumed to be a drug dealer, of course!) just makes me cringe. And I never thought I was a knee-jerk type of PC person. I figured I could get the subtext and overcome the other stuff...but it's too stark to me now, I can't overcome it. It's garbage, that scene practically a ficto-documentary of police abuse and disrespect to black men, and has no merits other than its telling of a bad, sad, nasty time in this nation's history. The scene ACTUALLY MADE ME FEEL BAD FOR THE DRUG DEALERS, if that's possible! And I don't want to be feeling bad for drug dealers. I want to hate them...this movie makes me hate Doyle instead. I find that grotesque somehow, a real failure---but at this point in my life, I can tell it is not my personal failure; the failure is in this movie. And I've had years to find this out, I've outgrown easy emotions. The Doyle character, at least as portrayed in this movie, is just not worth watching. (I like, even love Gene Hackman in so many other movies: The Conversation, Hoosiers, Downhill Racer, Get Shorty...even as Lex Luthor...he's nearly always worth watching, at times even fascinating to watch.)

Yeah, I guess you could say I'm a little disillusioned about this movie. I can still enjoy To Live And Die in LA, though...

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Joseph Gazal

Realistic

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 3, 2022

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Typical of the era, but too long

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Col.WVH

Olde but goode

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Excellent cast, true storyline and excellent gritty Big Apple camera work.

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SIGNATURE SERIES BLU-RAY IS THE VERSION TO BUY, NOT THE OLD 2008 BLU-RAY

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 11, 2014

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THE FRENCH CONNECTION
Great piece of filmmaking by the Legendary William Friedkin
plus Great performances by Gene Hackman and Roy schneider plus Great screenwriting aswell
and what do you get, one of the best action thrillers of the 70'S
this film definitely deserved an Academy award from the 1971 Oscars
it won for Best Actor Gene Hackman, best Director william Friedkin & best picture
and is still enjoyable to watch some 40 years later
There's 2 blu-ray versions of this film the first 2008 release and this new Signature series release
the first blu-ray transfer was done by the Distributor 20th century fox with no involvement by Billy friedkin
well Billy hated this HD transfer
and in 2011 Billy & Cinematographer Owen roizman
decided to step in personally & supervise a new HD transfer of this classic action thriller
and i tell you what Billy & owen's own HD transfer looks beautiful, incredible picture quality nice sharp & clear picture
Hardly no Grain or Dirt in the picture much better quality than the old 2008 blu-ray for sure
it's to bad Billy did not do the same for the sound quality, a new 6.1 or 7.1 Master mix would've improved
the sound quality big time instead the usual 5.1 Master audio mix has been left
which still sounds really Good, but a 6.1 mix would've boosted it big time
but the picture quality does look alot better than the old 2008 blu-ray

as for the extras, well all the special features have been carried over to this new signature series blu-ray
well most of them anyway
the 2 Audio commentaries are still on this 2011 blu-ray
plus these new featurettes DELETED SCENES with optional william friedkin commentary
ANATOMY OF A CHASE, HACKMAN ON DOYLE
FRIEDKIN & GROSSO REMEMBER THE REAL FRENCH CONNECTION
SCENE OF THE CRIME, COP JAZZ THE MUSIC OF DON ELLIS
ROGUE COP-THE NOIR CONNECTION
and MAKING THE CONNECTION a 56min making of TV special from 2000
all this on 1 blu-ray Disc
the only Doco that is not on this new signature series is the BBC Documentary Poughkeepsie shuffle
which is very similar Documentary as the Making the connection Doco
except it's done by the BBC, British broadcast co.
i guess 20th century fox had run out of Disc space
there's also a new 22page making of booklet included in the case
the packaging is just standard blu-ray case

so Definitetly time to upgrade buy this new signature series
a brand new HD transfer personally done by William friedkin & Owen roizman, not typically done by the Distributor
5 stars for the film itself, 5 stars for this new 2011 blu-ray

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One of the best 70s gritty cop shows

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 2, 2022

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Hackman is amazing as Popeye Doyle. Dingy 1970s NYC is one of the stars of this movie.

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Note to Hollywood: DO NOT REMAKE THIS FILM!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 1, 2022

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I grew up on the films of the '60s and '70s era of cinema and I am grateful to have experienced the pinnacle of filmmaking. The French Connection is a perfect example of what makes these films classic. The car chase alone deserved the Academy Award in 1971. There is a street realism to this film that still holds up. I would not want to imagine Hollywood remaking this classic with Vin Diesel or The Rock and mucking it up with CGI in an inane and incredulous scenarios. Leave well enough alone and revere this classic in the context of this innovative era and William Friedkin's stunning achievement.

Also, a lot of bonus commentary for us film geeks on this two discs.

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Shazad Mohammed

Groundbreaking for its time

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 28, 2022

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Has not aged well. Main character comes off as inept. Situations are realistic by today's standards but neither novel nor shocking. The chase sequence is good but the ending is abrupt and feels rushed. A period piece that is what it is.

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Jack Torrance

Modern films are ruining me!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 28, 2019

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I have got to stop watching all the flashy modern rubbish! They are making old films look dull! I love The French Connection. Not as much as most I think but still, it's a solid film, well structured with great performances all round and some of the most bad ass standout scenes of the 70's! But.... this new transfer has slightly dampened it for me. I know I'm late to the party because it's a transfer from around 2009, but it's pretty awful! I watched the mini doc about the transfer on the second disc and I get what Mr. Freidkin is saying he's going for but he didn't achieve it. My TV has not been professionally calibrated but I think I know what I'm doing. Separate settings for 4K, HDR, NON HDR, 1080p, Games and they all look perfect. The regrading process is the same as many other films go through and they all manage to look far better so it's not just me! It just took me out of the feeling of immersion. Shame.

Other than that the film is excellent and should be seen by as many people as possible.

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William R

The classic 70s tough-cop movie, looking great in re-issued BD

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 20, 2015

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Others have reviewed this great movie and its chequered Blu Ray release in more detail than I can. I'll just mention that director William Friedkin's experimental colour treatment for the initial BD release was widely regarded as an abomination, and eventually a straight version was produced which looks the way it should. It's therefore worth checking that you're buying this 2012 Filmmakers' Signature Edition and not the earlier one (note Amazon lumps all reviews for a movie together, so check which one I'm reviewing.)

Yes, it's confusing that the "signature" refers to the same chap who messed it up the first time around.

The movie itself is a classic tough-cop-who-won't-quit story based on real events (plenty of background and interviews in the extras pack, which is nice), and being a 1970's crime movie it doesn't mess around and ends abruptly. (Cue credits...)

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gerrard

US signature series blu-ray March 2012 release

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 2, 2013

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This U.S. blu-ray has three choices of audio
DTS- HD Surround,5.1 Dolby surround and original mono in english.french and spanish audio in 5.1 dolby digital only.
There are a choice of six languages with subtitles including english for the hard of hearing.
I found the picture quality to be a huge improvement on the original UK release which really was a disappointment. there are no colours bleeding all over the place and it still retains it's dark 70's look.even though this is a one BD set compared to the two disc original release most of the extras are on it,The Poughkeepsie Shuffle documentary and Friedkin's explanation for his changing the original colour are not included though.well worth getting if you like this movie and weren't impressed by the first blu-ray release.it's also region free.just make sure it's the march 2012 release that you purchase.

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Emma

The French Connection movie: Fabulous cinematography

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 5, 2021

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I had not seen the movie, THE FRENCH CONNECTION, in a number of years and therefore decided to order a DVD copy recently. Once again, while both the police brutality and the international trafficking of drugs are most disturbing, it is the quality of the directing of the entire film that is so fantastic and certainly will never age.

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Mr. M. Sanders

The French Connection

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 20, 2011

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This film is one of the all time classics, a crime thriller that really breaks the mould.

Gene hackman spent months working with the real Detective who worked this case (who also appears in the film)

A second DVD of the making of and a Mark Kermode program about the film are included which are great and maybe worth a watch before the film to help you see more detail in the film.

Anything featuring Mark Kermode is always worth a good look at. In my opinion he is one of the great movie reviewers, knows his subject and is able to articulate a conversation that makes you also ask the same questions he does.

Like Bullitt, and the Clint Eastwood Dirty Harry films, this is an example of great 70's police drama.

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