The Connection (Blu-ray)

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 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
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
The film retains the same beatnik wit that the play effectively distilled, as well as a few scary shocks. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Mar 27, 2012
A lean, mean saga of jazz, junk and rebellion. Full Review
Salon.com
May 4, 2012
Rating: B+ -- An uncompromising look at a group of drug addicts waiting in a Manhattan loft for a heroin fix. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Feb 24, 2015
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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  • Sales Rank: 68,641
  • UPC: 784148014050
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