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THE FRENCH CONNECTION

Wednesday, November 2 at 7:30pm

THE FRENCH CONNECTION
Members $9 / Public $13 (Includes Reception)
Celebrating its 40th Anniversary with a new 35mm printand with lauded star
Tony Lo Bianco in personthe Cinema Arts Centre presents director William
Friedkin's gritty, high-octane, era-defining film, The French Connection (1971), listed
by the American Film Institute as among the ten greatest thrillers ever made.
Recreating the biggest heroin drug bust in NYC history, this breathless crime drama stars
Gene Hackman in his Oscar-winning performance as Popeye Doyle, a racist, ballbusting
rogue cop who pursues his quarry with an obsessive violence driven by his own
boundless ego and addiction to adrenalin. Tony Lo Bianco plays Sal Boca, a modest
luncheonette owner somehow able to afford endless nightclub hopping and a string of
fancy cars. Ever accelerating, the movie is highlighted by its rightly legendary car-versussubway
chase, the most feverish chase scene ever filmed. (USA, 1971, 104 min.) Jud Newborn
Wednesday, November 2 at 7:30pm
40th Anniversary Celebration!
New 35mm Print!
WINNER OF 5 ACADEMY AWARDS Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Screenplay, Best Editing
Tony Lo Bianco is an Obie and Outer Critics Circle award-winning, actor, director and playwright who
debuted Hizzoner!, his one man show about Fiorello LaGuardia, at Hofstra University before taking it
on the road. He was nominated for a Tony award for his starring turn in the Broadway revival of Arthur
Miller's A View from the Bridge. His first starring film role was in The Honeymoon Killers (1969)a cult
classic based on a bizarre Long Island crime story. His subsequent roles include the films Nixon, The
Seven Ups, The Juror, City Heat, God Told Me To, as well as the TV shows Law & Order, Law & Order:
Criminal Intent, Homicide, Police Story, Walker, Texas Ranger, and Murder, She Wrote