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Gene Hackman

July 2024

  • Driven by guilt … Hackman in The Conversation

    The Conversation review – Gene Hackman is unforgettable in Coppola’s paranoid classic

    Hackman’s surveillance expert Harry Caul is inexpressibly sad and lonely – a classic and poignant American everyman

April 2024

  • black and white film still of man handing something to another man in an office

    The Conversation at 50: Francis Ford Coppola’s paranoid and predictive masterpiece

    The 1974 suspense thriller smartly predicted the increasing importance of technology and lack of privacy in our lives

January 2024

  • Sideways - 2004<br>No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only. No Book Cover Usage. Mandatory Credit: Photo by Fox Searchlight Pictures/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock (5883098n) Paul Giamatti Sideways - 2004 Director: Alexander Payne Fox Searchlight Pictures USA Scene Still

    And the Oscar nomination doesn’t go to … 20 great performances snubbed by the Academy

    Ahead of the release of year’s nominations later today, here are the best acting turns not even shortlisted for an Academy Award this century

August 2023

  • William Friedkin on the set of the Exorcist

    The Exorcist and French Connection director William Friedkin – a life in pictures

    Film-maker William Friedkin has died at the age of 87. Famous for a string of classics in the 70s and 80s, here we look back at his career.

April 2023

  • Stuart Heritage

    Tracking down and snapping retired stars is a gross and uneasy trend

    Stuart Heritage
    Paparazzi pictures of Jack Nicholson, Gene Hackman and Bridget Fonda have circulated online, feeding into an odd desire to force reclusive actors back into the spotlight

February 2023

  • The Strays.

    The seven best films to watch on TV this week
    The Strays to Kill List: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    Ashley Madekwe heads up a smart, snappy psychological thriller about escaping a murky past, while Ben Wheatley’s visceral film about a hitman really packs a punch

December 2022

  • ‘I know it was you that made me do the Dunkaccino rap.’

    Ranked
    The best New Year’s Eve scenes – ranked

  • The cast of The Poseidon Adventure.

    The Poseidon Adventure at 50: Gene Hackman brings dignity to disaster

November 2022

  • Film and Television<br>No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only. No Book Cover Usage. Mandatory Credit: Photo by Moviestore Collection/REX (1597290a) Heat, Robert De Niro Film and Television

    Explain it to me quickly
    Goncharov: why has the internet invented a fake Martin Scorsese film?

    Thousands of Tumblr users have been making posters, soundtracks, drawings and fan fiction for a 1973 Scorsese film starring Robert De Niro – but it never existed

May 2022

  • THE QUICK AND THE DEAD<br>SHARON STONE Film 'THE QUICK AND THE DEAD' (1995) Directed By SAM RAIMI 10 February 1995 SSS73320 Allstar Collection/TRISTAR **WARNING** This photograph can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above film. For Editorial Use Only.

    Stream team
    Sharon Stone! Leonardo DiCaprio! Sam Raimi’s The Quick and the Dead deserves your time

    This 1995 western has been widely overlooked but it is good camp fun, starring Stone as a mysterious woman who enters a gunslinger contest in an outlaw town

December 2021

  • 2001, THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS<br>LUKE WILSON, GWYNETH PALTROW, GENE HACKMAN, BEN STILLER, ANJELICA HUSTON, DANNY GLOVER, KUMAR PALLANA Character(s): Richie Tenenbaum,Margot Tenenbaum,Royal Tenenbaum,Chas Tenenbaum,Etheline Tenenbaum,Henry Sherman,Pagoda Film 'THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS' (2001) Directed By WES ANDERSON 05 October 2001 SSE18680 Allstar/TOUCHSTONE (USA 2001) **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of TOUCHSTONE and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To TOUCHSTONE is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    The Royal Tenenbaums at 20: Wes Anderson’s finest and funniest movie

    The precise dysfunctional family film set a template for the writer-director’s ouevre and gave Gene Hackman and his on-screen offspring some of their greatest roles

October 2021

  • 1971, THE FRENCH CONNECTION<br>GENE HACKMAN Character(s): Jimmy Doyle Film 'THE FRENCH CONNECTION' (1971) Directed By WILLIAM FRIEDKIN 07 October 1971 AFA2144 Allstar Collection/20THCENTURY FOX **WARNING** This photograph can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above film. For Printed Editorial Use Only, NO online or internet use. 1111z@yx

    The French Connection at 50: one of the greatest New York movies ever

    William Friedkin peaked in 1971 with his thrilling crime drama, known for its show-stopping car chase, but elevated by so much more

May 2020

  • Aasha Davis, Adepero Oduye Pariah - (2011) Ewan Mcgregor &amp; Eva Green ‘perfect Sense; The Last Word’ (2010) Gene Hackman &amp; Tommy Lee Jones ‘the Package’ (1989) Haley Lu Richardson, John Cho Columbus (2017)

    My streaming gem
    'My favourite forgotten film' – you recommend your best streaming gems

    As our writers continue to highlight under-seen films available to stream, you’ve replied with your favourites, ranging from sci-fi to action to comedy

March 2020

  • Hadley Freeman

    Hadley Freeman's Weekend column
    I grew up watching disaster movies. Here’s what I’ve learned

    Hadley Freeman
    From Armageddon to Outbreak, there’s something reassuring about their predictability, now more than ever

September 2017

  • HARRY DEAN STANTON Film ‘LUCKY’ (2017) Directed By JOHN CARROLL LYNCH 11 March 2017 SAT77999 Allstar Picture Library/SUPERLATIVE FILMS **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of SUPERLATIVE FILMS and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To SUPERLATIVE FILMS is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Harry Dean Stanton obituary

    The long-time David Lynch collaborator left a legacy of quintessentially American roles that spanned decades and won him an army of admirers

February 2017

  • The pause Clinto Eastwood takes after the sheriff says he’ll see him in hell is noticeably long.

    My favorite best picture Oscar winner
    My favorite best picture Oscar winner: Unforgiven

  • ‘A politically resonant cultural document of its own times that does in certain fascinating ways lead us to the place we are at now’ ... Gene Hackman in Absolute Power.

    Absolute Power at 20: what we can learn from a thriller about an evil president

October 2015

  • MISSISSIPPI BURNING

    Philip French's classic DVD
    Mississippi Burning review – incandescent civil rights thriller

    Alan Parker’s finest film, based on the notorious real-life murders of three civil-rights activists by the KKK, remains tragically relevant

August 2015

  • The French Connection

    French Connection man fights to have new drug case against him dismissed

    Alfred Catino, 74, a player in The French Connection heroin ring that spawned an Oscar-winning film, is challenging wiretap evidence used in a 2012 arrest

April 2015

  • Catherine Shoard

    Film blog
    My favourite Cannes winner: The Conversation

    Catherine Shoard
    Continuing our series in which writers choose their favourite Palme d’Or winners. Today: Francis Ford Coppola’s taut, scratchy paranoia classic starring Gene Hackman
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