The Connection
Men Held Captive By the Power Of Drugs
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 50 minutes
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: February 24, 2015
- Originally Released: 1962
- Label: Milestone Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | William Redfield, Warren Finnerty, Garry Goodrow, James Anderson, Carl Lee & Roscoe Lee Browne | |
Directed by | Shirley Clarke | |
Edited by | Shirley Clarke | |
Screenwriting by | Jack Gelber | |
Composition by | Freddie Redd | |
Produced by | Lewis M. Allen & Shirley Clarke | |
Director of Photography: | Arthur J. Ornitz |
Entertainment Reviews:
With so much to offer, the picture can be excused from the duties of entertainment in the pleasurable sense.
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New York Post
The quartet of musicians, led by the pianist and composer Freddie Redd and the caustic-toned post-bop saxophonist Jackie McLean, perform brilliantly on-camera as they dramatize both the agonized wait and the needed high.
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New Yorker
The Connection is not a great movie but it is a singular and multi-faceted historical artifact.
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The New York Review of Books
Experimental theater meets cinéma verité with a self-aware sensibility: drama in documentary form.
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Seanax.com
Rating: 2/5 --
There is little about it to warrant the clamorous interest of the average moviegoer or to distinguish it as a significant piece of cinematic art.
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New York Times
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Whatever its place on the scale of so-called authenticity, 'The Connection' is concerned with many of the same issues as its more legitimately underground successors. As someone in the movie observes: 'The question is, like why ain't we dead, y'know?'
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Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
Clarke, her camera moving with voyeuristic precision, recasts the material as a literal documentary in the making. She gets at the inner truth of addicts -- that they're pining for transcendence in the void. -- Grade: A-
Entertainment Weekly
Product Description:
The Living Theatre's production of the play by Jack Gelber. Avant-garde director Shirley Clarke, who also made a series of dance and abstract films, here delves into a fictional world. Leach, a drug dealer, and some of his heroin-addicted clients are in his apartment awaiting Cowboy, Leach's "connection." At the same time, a documentary filmmaker records everything that happens in the room, including an impromptu jazz session by some of the junkies. But when Cowboy arrives, pandemonium erupts when one person virtually overdoses. Unfortunately, the others either flee or are too high to help him.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 67,127
- UPC: 784148014043
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