Movie:the French Connection

  • NewsGwynne Watkins

    'Baby Driver' Director Edgar Wright Steers All of Us to 10 Great Car Chase Movies

    With Baby Driver (in theaters June 28), director Edgar Wright has fulfilled his lifelong dream of making a car-chase film. The buzzy action flick, about a getaway driver named Baby (Ansel Elgort) who never unplugs his iPod, was inspired by the auto-filled action movies of Wright’s childhood. For a screening series at the British Film Institute in London, Wright, best known for his Cornetto trilogy (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, andThe World’s End), selected 10 of his favorites — and it’s a grea

  • NewsGwynne Watkins

    Remember How Frank Sinatra Almost Played Dirty Harry?

    Clint Eastwood as the title character in the 1971 film ‘Dirty Harry’ (AP Photo/Warner Bros.) Dirty Harry’s vigilante police detective Harry Callahan is one of the defining roles of Clint Eastwood’s career — but it was meant to be played by Frank Sinatra. In an interview for Alec Baldwin’s podcast Here’s the Thing, director William Friedkin (The French Connection, The Exorcist) revealed that he’d spent months developing the gritty 1971 crime drama with the crooner-turned-actor in mind. “My prod