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 ...

"George would cut with footage from old war movies, right?" "You talkin' to me?" Was this the greatest decade for film? Do you feel the need for speed? To Live and Exorcise like a French Sorcerer. The ...

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 ...

French Connection II (1975) is a neo-noir action thriller film directed by John Frankenheimer. Serving as a sequel to the 1971-released French Connection, the movie sees detective Popeye Doyle ...

It starts with gunshots — a Mercedes and its driver are riddled by motorcycle-riding assassins in broad daylight — and the pace of “The Connection” is bang-bang brisk most of the rest of the way.

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 ...