THE FRENCH CONNECTION Rerelease (with new intro) - Gene Hackman Tribute Series

The Cine-Files

Steve Morris & John Rocha

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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On this episode of The Cine-Files, Steve Morris and John Rocha REPOST their episode on THE FRENCH CONNECTION in honor of the passing of Gene Hackman. Steve and John record a new intro for this film exploring Hackman's performance as Popeye Doyle as a tribute to his work. Sit back after the introduction and enjoy Steve and John going scene by scene thru this movie and explore the acting, direction, the writing and the effect the film has on us today.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to a very, very, very, I will say, special tribute edition of the cinefiles.
0:14.3	We lost.
0:15.7	I mean, this is one of the greats.
0:17.0	I mean, there's not, I mean, yeah, there's all sorts of people we've done tributes to amazing actors, amazing directors, amazing writers and composers and all of those things.
0:25.0	In the pantheon for me, John, and I should say, I'm Steve Morris, a filmmaker, directing instructor in Los Angeles, California.
0:31.8	In the pantheon of film actors, Gene Hackman is sitting there up on Mount Olympus. That's how I feel about it. Yeah. Gene Hackman is sitting there up on Mount Olympus.
0:38.3	That's how I feel about it.
0:39.6	Yeah.
0:40.0	By the way,
0:40.5	is John Roker writer,
0:41.3	Bruce knows.
0:41.7	I would say,
0:43.5	yes,
0:43.9	I agree with you.
0:45.1	And even more so over the last few days,
0:47.0	brother,
0:47.3	I've caught myself going into
0:48.8	YouTube wormholes
0:50.4	and watching like 10 to 15 minute
0:52.8	compiled scenes of him from different movies.
0:56.7	The MGM channel on YouTube, if you don't have that highly recommend or the Warner Archive
1:01.1	channel, and they do a great job because they're all like 4K or HD.
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