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The French Connection
Sun, Apr 3 | 7:30pm | DGT
Director William Friedkin helped usher in a new era of gritty police dramas with this fact-based thriller about an unscrupulous New York cop (Gene Hackman, in a star- making, Best Actor-winning performance) and his sidekick (Roy Scheider) who go up against an international drug ring. Winner of five Oscars including Best Picture and Directing, The French Connection set a high bar for documentary-inspired realism in commercial cinema while featuring one of the most exciting chase scenes of all time.
DIRECTOR: William Friedkin.
WRITTEN BY: Ernest Tidyman.
CAST: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider, Tony Lo Bianco. 1971. 104 min. USA. Color. English. 35mm.
New print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.
Klute
Sun, Apr 10 | 7:30pm | DGT
Jane Fonda won her first Best Actress Oscar for her bold portrayal of Bree Daniel, a struggling actress and call girl who finds her life imperiled by an unseen figure, with Donald Sutherland as John Klute, a small- town detective who tries to protect her. The first of director Alan J. Pakula’s paranoid thrillers that helped define 1970s American cinema, it benefits from an eerie score by Michael Small and the moody widescreen cinematography of Gordon Willis.
DIRECTOR: Alan J. Pakula.
WRITTEN BY: Andy Lewis, David Lewis.
CAST: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Roy Scheider. 1971. 115 min. USA. Color. Scope. English. 35mm.
New print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.
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