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You may be surprised to learn just how many times Poughkeepsie has been featured in some of the biggest movies and TV shows of all time.

You may be surprised to learn just how many times Poughkeepsie has been featured in some of the biggest movies and TV shows of all time.

A cinematic visionary known for his gritty and visceral style, Friedkin leaves behind an enduring legacy in the world of film.

He made his name with two of the biggest box-office hits of the 1970s. But despite some later successes, he never regained his early acclaim.

Donald Clarke: Streaming services now hold the keys to alter final cuts of films perhaps permanently, a troubling development

Gene Hackman as Detective Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle in The French Connection. (Image: 20th Century Fox/Getty Images) Released in UK cinemas 50 years ago, The French Connection starred Gene Hackman as the ragged, racist, profanity-spewing Detective Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle. In the movie’s most famous scene he drives a souped-up Pontiac across Brooklyn to chase an elevated […]

William Friedkin peaked in 1971 with his thrilling crime drama, known for its show-stopping car chase, but elevated by so much more

Gene Hackman has been out of the film game for almost twenty years now and ostensibly retired, but he was more than happy to take part in a chance to celebrate the 50th anniversary of The French Connection - and with it, one of the great film car chase sequences in history.

The 91 years young actor and legendary director William Friedkin, 86, discuss The French Connection, retirement, and that history-making car.

Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures We’re somehow nearly halfway through the year, if that’s not too hard to imagine and there’s a plentiful bounty of exciting new releases and additions to streaming to tide you over until summer. This month sees the long-awaited premiere of Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi action thriller Tenet on HBO Max, a streaming platform for which Nolan himself has voiced particularly strong opinions of in the past, along with bona fide classics like James Cameron’s Alien...