The French Connection

Robert Galibert Makes a Drug-Free French Connection on Voices for Humanity

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Samstag, Mai 4, 2024
The French Connection, Psychological abuse, Scientology Network, Minor, Movement, Illegal drug trade

LOS ANGELES, May 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Scientology Network's VOICES FOR HUMANITY, the weekly series presenting heroic change makers from a variety of faiths, cultures and nations, working to uplift their communities, announces a new episode featuring anti-drug activist Robert Galibert.

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  • LOS ANGELES, May 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Scientology Network's VOICES FOR HUMANITY, the weekly series presenting heroic change makers from a variety of faiths, cultures and nations, working to uplift their communities, announces a new episode featuring anti-drug activist Robert Galibert.
  • VOICES FOR HUMANITY airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Scientology Network.
  • More than fifty years after Marseille, France, was infamously depicted as a center of drug trafficking in the film The French Connection, the city is still grappling with a long-entrenched drug culture.
  • Robert Galibert, undaunted by the presence of powerful drug gangs, began a movement to educate the public on the true dangers of drugs.

The incredible creativity of William Friedkin: Oscars, box-office hits – and arthouse, experimental genre cinema

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Dienstag, August 8, 2023
Music, To Live and Die in L.A., Instinct, Friedkin, Politics, Le Cercle Rouge, New Wave, Star Wars, Venice Film Festival, Fear, 70th Venice International Film Festival, Steven Spielberg, Method, Tubular Bells, Time, Art, Young Turks, Connection, The French Connection, Academy Awards, Film industry, Jewellery, Nightclub, Mobile telephony, Guardian, Sorcerer, New Hollywood, Exorcist

With the audacity of relative youth on their side, they wanted to bring down the old system and remake Hollywood.

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  • With the audacity of relative youth on their side, they wanted to bring down the old system and remake Hollywood.
  • Released in 1971, the film galvanised audiences, changed the landscape of Hollywood genre realism, and took home five Oscars – including Best Picture.
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Enduring artistic fascination

    • Friedkin plays the thriller like something lifted from the French New Wave, say Jean-Pierre Melville’s glorious Le Cercle Rouge of 1970.
    • The French Connection was followed by perhaps the most notorious film of the Hollywood 1970s: The Exorcist (1973).
    • But there many works from the last 40 years of enduring artistic fascination: the synth-oozing To Live and Die in LA (1985), which sets the template for Michael Mann’s Collateral (2004); Jade, Friedkin’s 1995 attempt to outdo Paul Verhoeven’s Basic Instinct (1992), a perverse pleasure precisely for its manic unevenness; and 2011’s stylised, hyper-violent domestic drama, Killer Joe.
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My personal top five

    • I want to close this reflection with my William Friedkin top five, which I’ll be revisiting across the next week: 5.
    • Sorcerer (1977) Many commentators on Friedkin’s career regard The Sorcerer as Friedkin’s last great auteur film.
    • Cruising (1980) Has Cruising – a film about a serial killer within New York’s homosexual subcultural community - been cancelled?
    • The Exorcist (1973) Simply put, the milestone that brought one of the most distinctive artistic visions to a classical possession genre story.
    • The film oozes a place and time unlike any other film shot in New York in the 1970s.