"of opium production. Initially, the Turkish government agreed to limit their opium production starting with the 1968 crop. At the end of the 1960s, after Robert Blemant's assassination by Antoine Guerini, a gang war sparked in Marseille, caused by competition over casino revenues. Blemant's associate, Marcel Francisci, continued the war over the next years. Former New York City Police Department Narcotics Bureau detective Sonny Grosso has stated that the kingpin of the French Connection heroin ring during the 1950s into the 1960s was Corsican Jean Jehan. Although Jehan arranged the famous 1962 deal gone wrong of 64 pounds of ""pure"""
"the real life exploits of Sonny Grosso and Eddie Egan. While making ""The French Connection"", Grosso told d'Antoni the story of ""the kidnapping of cops who weren't really cops,"" said the producer. ""A very weird and fascinating story."" It was about a group of police who existed in the 1950s who were only assigned felonies where the penalties were seven years and up. ""The French Connection"" was a big box office success and 20th Century Fox agreed to let D'Antoni direct. ""We kind of agreed the best one to direct this would be me,"" he said. Filming locations include Manhattan,"
"The French Connection (film) The French Connection is a 1971 American crime thriller film directed by William Friedkin. The screenplay, written by Ernest Tidyman, is based on Robin Moore's 1969 non-fiction book ""The French Connection: A True Account of Cops, Narcotics, and International Conspiracy"". It tells the story of New York Police Department detectives Jimmy ""Popeye"" Doyle and Buddy ""Cloudy"" Russo, whose real-life counterparts were Narcotics Detectives Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso, in pursuit of wealthy French heroin smuggler Alain Charnier. The film stars Gene Hackman as Popeye, Roy Scheider as Cloudy, and Fernando Rey as Charnier. Tony Lo Bianco"
"to recall the car-chase scene from ""The French Connection"", which was also based on the exploits of Eddie Egan, Robert Duvall as police detective Eddie Ryan attempts to chase down suspects in their car by hijacking a city bus, the 14th Street crosstown. The chase does not follow actual Manhattan geography, and passes locations including the West 125th viaduct and a meatpacking plant, and a branch of the record store King Karol at 460 West 42nd Street. Locations for other scenes include the Manhattan Bridge, with the World Trade Center's Twin Towers in the background, and the FDR Drive, with"
"they were inside the cars. Even during the most calamitous scenes, the star – Steve McQueen – could be clearly seen at the wheel of the vehicle. ""The French Connection"" further increased the realism. While previous chases had obviously been filmed on closed roads, isolated highways, or Sunday mornings (including ""Bullitt""), ""The French Connection"" placed the chase in the midst of busy New York traffic and pedestrians. The producer of both ""Bullitt"" and ""The French Connection"", Philip D'Antoni, went on to direct ""The Seven-Ups"" with yet another trademark chase sequence through New York featuring Roy Scheider from ""The French Connection"""
"The French Connection (book) The French Connection: A True Account of Cops, Narcotics, and International Conspiracy is a non-fiction book by Robin Moore first published in 1969 about the notorious ""French Connection"" drug trafficking scheme. It is followed by the book ""The Setup"". The book was adapted to film in 1971 as ""The French Connection"", written by Ernest Tidyman and directed by William Friedkin. The story follows the exhausting investigation of New York City detectives Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso as they attempt to uncover the participants of a major drug ring. Acting on a hunch, the detectives begin surveillance"
"a street in New York City renamed after Patrolman Cardillo. Jurgensen began working as a technical consultant in the film industry, while a detective for the NYPD. His notable films include ""The French Connection"" and ""Donnie Brasco"". In the early 1960s, Jurgensen and his partner performed undercover work to investigate homosexual murders in New York City. Homosexuals were being targeted by two perpetrators who would pose as police officers. His work was inspiration for the film ""Cruising"", and Al Pacino played his character. Acting Randy Jurgensen Randy Jurgensen is a former NYPD detective, best known as the lead investigator into"
"York. Next morning, Ferchaux is able to collect millions of dollars from his safe-deposit box but cannot touch his US bank account because the French authorities are seeking his extradition. Hiring a car, he and Maudet drive by back roads to Louisiana, shadowed by FBI agents. Renting an isolated house in New Orleans, Ferchaux falls sick and Maudet gets increasingly frustrated at the whims of an old man with no power left beyond his attaché case of dollars. Going to the neighbourhood bar for drink and company, Maudet mentions his boss's stash to the owner Jeff, a crook and murderer,"
"in New York over 23 days in March 2014. Most of the film was shot in a townhouse on West 162nd Street in Manhattan. Some scenes were filmed in an apartment building in Yonkers and a senior's home in Hastings-on-Hudson. The film was shot by French cinematographer Denis Lenoir, whom Glatzer and Westmoreland had met at a film screening in 1999; they had wanted to work with him ever since. During filming, Glatzer and Westmoreland attempted to divide the directing duties equally between themselves, even though Glatzer's physical condition had deteriorated to the point that he could only communicate by"
"released. This time the color-timing was supervised by both Friedkin and Roizman, and the desaturated and sometimes over-grainy look of the 2009 edition have been corrected. The French Connection (film) The French Connection is a 1971 American crime thriller film directed by William Friedkin. The screenplay, written by Ernest Tidyman, is based on Robin Moore's 1969 non-fiction book ""The French Connection: A True Account of Cops, Narcotics, and International Conspiracy"". It tells the story of New York Police Department detectives Jimmy ""Popeye"" Doyle and Buddy ""Cloudy"" Russo, whose real-life counterparts were Narcotics Detectives Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso, in pursuit"
"A Couch in New York A Couch in New York (French title ""Un divan à New York"") is a 1996 film about an anonymous exchange of apartments between a successful New York psychoanalyst and a young woman from Paris. It was written and directed by Chantal Akerman. Henry Harriston is a psychoanalyst whose patients are driving him crazy by constantly leaving him messages during his off hours. On a whim he places an ad offering up his apartment for a housing swap. Béatrice Saulnier (Juliette Binoche) a Parisian dancer responds to his ad and without meeting the two switch apartments."
"in the parking lot of the building where he lived in Paris, France. French Connection The French Connection was a scheme through which heroin was smuggled from Turkey to France and then to the United States through Canada. The operation reached its peak in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and was responsible for providing the vast majority of the heroin used in the United States. The operation was headed by Corsican criminals Paul Carbone (and his associate François Spirito) and Antoine Guérini, and also involved Auguste Ricord, Paul Mondoloni and Salvatore Greco. Most of the operation's starting capital came"
"his French while preserving his English dialogue. The plot centers on drug smuggling in the 1960s and early '70s, when most of the heroin illegally imported into the East Coast came to the United States through France (""see"" French Connection). In addition to the two main protagonists, several of the fictional characters depicted in the film also have real-life counterparts. The Alain Charnier character is based upon Jean Jehan who was arrested later in Paris for drug trafficking, though he was not extradited since France does not extradite its citizens. Sal Boca is based on Pasquale ""Patsy"" Fuca, and his"
"Welcome to New York (2014 film) Welcome to New York is a 2014 French-American drama film co-written and directed by Abel Ferrara. Inspired by the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair, the film was released on 17 May 2014 by VOD on the internet as the film failed to secure a place on the official selection at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, nor was it picked up for theatrical distribution in France and is facing self-censorship by the French media, according to Vincent Maraval, one of the producers. In the film, the character Devereaux is closely based on French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn. It"
"reversed, the locations remain today for the most part as they did in the movie. The funeral procession then rides on Pelham Parkway. The climactic shootout scene at the end of the movie was filmed in areas just outside Co-op City's Section Five, at what today is Erskine Place, between De Reimer and Palmer Avenues. As in ""Bullitt"" and ""The French Connection"", Philip D'Antoni again utilized stunt coordinator and driver Bill Hickman (who also has a small role in the film) to help create the chase sequence for this film. Filmed in and around Upper Manhattan, New York City, the"
"on Pasquale ""Patsy"" Fuca, who was observed in a nightclub consorting with known criminals. It soon becomes apparent that Fuca is involved in a large drug trafficking operation, including two Frenchmen: Jean Jehan, the main person responsible for importing the heroin shipment to the United States, and Jacques Angelvin, a television personality. The French Connection (book) The French Connection: A True Account of Cops, Narcotics, and International Conspiracy is a non-fiction book by Robin Moore first published in 1969 about the notorious ""French Connection"" drug trafficking scheme. It is followed by the book ""The Setup"". The book was adapted to"
"Lafayette, and Quo Vadis. ""La Grenouille"" is the last operating New York French haute cuisine restaurant from the 1960s, a time when it dominated New York City's French haute cuisine. La Grenouille (restaurant) La Grenouille is a historic and award-winning French restaurant located at 3 East 52nd Street (between Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue) in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Founded in 1962 by former Henri Soulé apprentice Charles Masson, Sr. and his wife Gisèle, later with sons Philippe and Charles, ""La Grenouille"" (Fr., ""The Frog"") became a location of choice among New York, U.S., and eventually international diners,"
"Gendarme in New York Gendarme in New York () is the sequel to the French comedy film ""Le gendarme de Saint-Tropez"". It stars Louis de Funès as the gendarme. With Michel Galabru, Christian Marin, Grosso and Modo, Alan Scott. The gendarmes of St. Tropez are invited to New York City to a law enforcement conference. They are supposed to travel alone without spouses or children but Cruchot's daughter Nicole wants to go to New York as it may be her only chance. Cruchot forbids her to go because disobeying an order may hurt his career. As Cruchot travels to Le"
"""Midnight Cowboy"", ""The French Connection"", ""Dog Day Afternoon"", ""Taxi Driver"", ""Marathon Man"", ""Cruising"", ""Dressed to Kill"", and ""Death Wish"" showed New York as full of chaos and violence. With the city's renaissance in the 1980s and 1990s came new portrayals on television; ""Friends"", ""Seinfeld"", and ""Sex and the City"" showed life in the city to be glamorous and interesting. Nonetheless a disproportionate number of crime dramas, such as ""Law & Order"", continue to make criminality in the city as their subject even as New York has become the safest large city in the United States in the last two decades."
"and France's Fidélité Films, was filmed over six weeks in New York, Quebec and New Mexico. Filming in Manhattan commenced on June 4, 2007. Production moved to New Mexico from June 15–19, where scenes were shot at various locations in Albuquerque, Alamogordo, Jemez Springs and Tularosa. Filming resumed in Montreal on July 7 and lasted for approximately 25 days; the city was chosen as a filming location for its tax deduction incentives and the ease in making ""Montreal look like anywhere in the world"". Though writer/director Bourdos is French, as is Musso's adapted novel and co-financier Christal Films Productions, ""Afterwards"""
"The Paris Theater (Manhattan) The Paris Theater is a 581-seat single-screen movie theater, located in Manhattan in New York City. It often shows art films and foreign films in their original languages. By the announcement on Jan. 20, 2016 of the closing of the Ziegfeld, the Paris became Manhattan's sole-surviving single-screen cinema. The theater was opened by Pathé Cinema on September 13, 1948, when actress Marlene Dietrich cut the inaugural ribbon in the presence of the U.S. Ambassador to France. Located at 4 West 58th Street, just west of Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan, it has specialized in foreign (especially"
"many different, and often contradictory, portrayals in mass media. From the sophisticated and worldly metropolis seen in many Woody Allen films, to the hellish and chaotic urban jungle depicted in such movies as Martin Scorsese's ""Taxi Driver"" (1976), New York has served as the unwitting backdrop for virtually every conceivable viewpoint on big city life. In the early years of film New York City was characterized as urbane and sophisticated. By the city's crisis period in the 1970s, however, films like ""Midnight Cowboy"" (1969), ""The French Connection"" (1971), and ""Death Wish"" (1974) showed New York as full of chaos and"
"Paris Manhattan Paris-Manhattan is a French feature film, which premiered on April 2, 2012 at the Festival of French Cinema in Australia. This is the first feature film by writer-director Sophie Lellouche. Alice Ovitz is a pharmacist from a Jewish family, who during her early years was introduced to and fell in love with Woody Allen's films. Growing up, she strongly desires a relationship, but the only man she ever loved was taken away from her by her own sister. On Alice's bedroom wall hangs a huge poster of Woody Allen, with whom she has long night conversations, and he"
"who is in France is an imposter he sent. Marilyn is torn over her affection for John and revealing that he is a fraud. Events transpire that turn John into a legitimate hero that Marilyn can accept as her true love. According to publicity for ""The Service Star"", some scenes were shot in Washington, D.C., as well as in various towns in northern New Jersey, and on Long Island, New York. While on location in Long Island, a parade of American Civil War veterans who gave a tribute to drafted boys leaving for boot camp was incorporated into the film."
"rare brio, chockablock with consummate tough-guy business."" Peter Debruge from ""Variety"" states that ""Jimenez adopts a vintage-kitsch sensibility, taking a disappointingly generic approach to his hard-to-follow narrative."" John DeFore from ""The Hollywood Reporter"" calls the film a ""...procedural epic whose complicated narrative is propelled by visceral action sequences and an unusually thrilling soundtrack."" The Connection (2014 action film) The Connection () is a 2014 French-Belgian action crime thriller film directed by Cédric Jimenez and produced by Alain Goldman. The film was inspired by the events of the French Connection in the 1970s, starring Jean Dujardin as police magistrate Pierre Michel"
"grandson Champion, a Tour de France cyclist, who has been kidnapped by the French mafia for gambling purposes and taken to the city of Belleville (an amalgam of New York City, Montreal and Quebec City). She is accompanied by Champion's loyal but obese hound, Bruno, and joined by the Triplets of Belleville, music hall singers from the 1930s, whom she meets in the city. The film was highly praised by audiences and critics for its unique style of animation. The film was nominated for two Academy Awards—Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song for ""Belleville Rendez-vous"". It was also screened"
"York City plus Australia and Japan. Slightly later, they opened a film exchange in Buffalo, New York. Prior to the outbreak of World War I, Pathé dominated Europe's market in motion picture cameras and projectors. It has been estimated that at one time, 60 percent of all films were shot with Pathé equipment. In 1908, Pathé distributed ""Excursion to the Moon"" by Segundo de Chomón, an imitation of Georges Méliès's ""A Trip to the Moon"". Pathé and Méliès worked together in 1911. Georges Méliès made a film ""Baron Munchausen's Dream"", his first film to be distributed by Pathé. Pathé's relationship"
"with other women. One day the two are visited by famous Parisian fashion designer Colette and Vincent, one of her executives. One of Colette’s purse designs has been stolen and held for a high ransom. She believes the French police won’t act in time to recover it, so she has traveled to New York City to hire NYPD detectives, whom she feels would do better. The two Puerto Rican detectives go to Paris to find the prototype for the designs. Upon arriving in Paris, the two detectives don various disguises to interview the various suspects, offering each of them large"
"The French Connection (production company) The French Connection is a prolific producer of gay pornographic videos. Although the company produces several lines of films in different categories, almost all of them feature young men, uncircumcised, with little to no body hair, many produced and directed by Brazilian videographer Nelson De Olivera. Most of the company's videos are filmed in Brazil or Eastern Europe and feature local actors. Many of their videos have been successful enough to spawn sequels. This sequalization reached its most extent with the ""Capoeira"" films, the 27th installment of which was released ""circa"" 2007. The French Connection"
"helplessness. Michel then has to deal with his wife's gradual abandonment of him. While playing in one of Marseille's casinos controlled by the gang, Michel has a short look in a side room and sees one of the leading figures of the narcotics squad, police veteran Ange Mariette, chatting with Zampa. Pressing the younger cop Alvarez, Michel finds out that Mariette is the leader of a large gang of corrupt Corsican police officers. Mariette and many other officers in the police narcotics team are on Zampa's payroll and tip him off about police investigations. ""The Connection"" received generally positive reviews."
"Sonny Grosso Salvatore ""Sonny"" Grosso (born 1933) is a movie and television producer and former New York City Police Department detective, noted for his role in the case immortalized in the book and movie versions of the French Connection. He was born in 1932 or 1933 in Düsseldorf, Germany. Grosso and his partner Eddie Egan, and other NYPD detectives broke up an organized crime ring in 1961 and seized 112 pounds of heroin, a record amount at the time. The investigation was the subject of a book by Robin Moore and an Academy Award-winning motion picture. Robin Moore writes in"
"of such ancient material as cops and crooks, with thrills and chases, and lots of shoot-'em-up."" As of June 2018, the film holds a 98% ""certified fresh"" rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes based on reviews from 56 critics. The sites critical consensus states, ""Realistic, fast-paced and uncommonly smart, ""The French Connection"" is bolstered by stellar performances by Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider, not to mention William Friedkin's thrilling production."" In 2014, ""Time Out"" polled several film critics, directors, actors and stunt actors to list their top action films. ""The French Connection"" was listed at 40th place on this"
"hidden in the prison's high-security block with a handful of other prisoners and prison officers. A year after the bombs fall, Frank leaves the prison and begins his journey to New York City, taking with him Paris Peters, an arsonist who expresses interest in Frank's mission to find another bomb shelter hidden deep beneath the former site of the World Trade Center. Frank and Paris travel across upstate New York, past the ruined remains of civilization, ignoring the radiation they know will kill them. They locate the Manhattan bomb shelter and gain access, where they fall unconscious. Both awaken in"