March 2011
Day by Day, Best Motion Pictures: Today's Movie-... →
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A crime film set in New York, The French Connection is adapted from the book of the same title by Robin Moore. Its about 2 NYPDs “Popeye” Doyle (Gene Hackman) and Budy Russo (Roy Scheider) who stumble upon the smuggling of narcotics with a “French Connection”: between Marseille, France and…
Archive Of: Union Square Movie Star →
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As I watched William H. Whyte’s The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (1980) another movie crossed my mind: Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation (1974). The intro of the movie features an aerial shot over a crowded Union Square, San Francisco. There is a band playing, a mime and, of…
