The Connection (1961)

Directed by

Shirley Clarke

Genre

drama film, found footage film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 50m

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 32 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A filmmaker and his crew wait in a rundown New York apartment for heroin addicts to score drugs. The film captures the boredom and desperation of the junkies as they pass the time with jazz music and conversation.

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What happens

The Connection is a 1961 feature film directed by the American experimental filmmaker Shirley Clarke. The film was Clarke's first feature; she had made several short films over the previous decade. Jack Gelber wrote the screenplay, adapting his play of the same name. The film was the subject of significant court cases regarding censorship. It is the first known movie shot in the found footage format and beginning with a found footage title card. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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