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God Told Me To (Larry Cohen, 1976)

Posted on October 17, 2013 by Budd Wilkins

“None of Cohen’s other films can touch God Told Me To for sheer audacity, combining the handheld verisimilitude of gritty police procedurals like The French Connection with a loopy premise straight out of Erich Von Däniken’s Chariots of the Gods? … Continue reading →

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The French Connection (William Friedkin, 1971)

Posted on September 12, 2011 by Budd Wilkins

“Four decades after its initial release, William Friedkin’s Oscar-sweeper The French Connection remains an electrifying achievement, drawing its high-voltage forward momentum from the collision of semi-documentary procedural, with its based-on-real-events verisimilitude, and downbeat rogue-cop revisionism.” Read my review of The … Continue reading →

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