Now, two new movies with a French connection - the animated comedy "The Tale of Despereaux" is about a curious French mouse who loves to read and the French-language drama "The Class" tells the story ...

“The Connection” is the real-life story of the French Connection, as told from a French point of view and focusing around the city of Marseille, a center of drug trafficking in the 1970s. The French ...

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In a biography of Howard Hawks, author Todd McCarthy writes that when William Friedkin was living with Hawks' daughter Kitty in the early 1970s, Friedkin asked the famed director what he thought of ...

The story goes that 1970s Hollywood was a golden age for creative freedom, a time when maverick filmmakers could make their freewheeling passion projects without interference from studio suits. But ...

When you think of Best Picture Oscar winners, you think of grand epics or weighty historical topics, not grimy, intimate cops-and-robbers dramas. 2. Friedkin -- then an up-and-coming young director ...