The Connection (Blu-ray)
Men Held Captive By the Power Of Drugs
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Blu-ray 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 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
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)
The film retains the same beatnik wit that the play effectively distilled, as well as a few scary shocks.
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Chicago Reader
A lean, mean saga of jazz, junk and rebellion.
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Salon.com
Rating: B+ --
An uncompromising look at a group of drug addicts waiting in a Manhattan loft for a heroin fix.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
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: 68,641
- UPC: 784148014050
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