The Connection

Men Held Captive By the Power Of Drugs
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  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 50 minutes
  • Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
  • Released: February 24, 2015
  • Originally Released: 1962
  • Label: Milestone Video

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User Ratings: 122
With so much to offer, the picture can be excused from the duties of entertainment in the pleasurable sense. Full Review
New York Post
Sep 21, 2018
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. Full Review
New Yorker
Jan 4, 2016
The Connection is not a great movie but it is a singular and multi-faceted historical artifact. Full Review
The New York Review of Books
Mar 6, 2019
Experimental theater meets cinéma verité with a self-aware sensibility: drama in documentary form. Full Review
Seanax.com
Mar 30, 2017
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. Full Review
New York Times
Mar 27, 2012
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?' Full Review
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
Oct 9, 2012
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
May 11, 2012

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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