Comments on: William Friedkin’s ‘The French Connection’ at 54: The Seventies’ Peak of Cinematic Excitement https://cinephiliabeyond.org/william-friedkins-the-french-connection-the-seventies-peak-of-cinematic-excitement/ Films and Filmmaking Mon, 05 Jan 2026 10:41:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Sensor Sweep: Barbarian Heroes, Diamonds are Forever, Roger Zelazny – castaliahouse.com https://cinephiliabeyond.org/william-friedkins-the-french-connection-the-seventies-peak-of-cinematic-excitement/#comment-1577 Mon, 30 May 2022 04:31:18 +0000 http://www.cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=17534#comment-1577 […] (Neotextcorp): William Friedkin blew the world’s mind with The French Connection, and years later, as he wanted to shoot something different for To Live and Die in L.A., he managed […]

]]> By: David Barber https://cinephiliabeyond.org/william-friedkins-the-french-connection-the-seventies-peak-of-cinematic-excitement/#comment-369 Fri, 11 Aug 2017 21:54:00 +0000 http://www.cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=17534#comment-369 Back in the ’80s, I saw clips of this as a kid and it looked like a very exciting movie. In 1988, I asked my brother to tape it but he couldn’t because it featured bad language and I was only 9.

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