The Connection
26/9/2015,19:00, ODEON Οπερα 2 27/9/2015,19:30, Δαναός 2
A group of African-American junkies are waiting for their connection, while a domineering filmmaker is trying to turn their agony into big screen fodder. Shirley Clarke orchestrates a controversial gem that would change independent cinema forever, winning her an award at Cannes and her own special place in film history.
In a suffocating apartment in downtown New York a multi-ethnic group of drug addicts are anxiously waiting for their dealer to supply them with their much needed dose. Together with them are also the members of a jazz band (among which the pianist Freddie Redd and the sax player Jackie McLean) who are improvising the whole time of the wait, just as a white and intrusive director is filming what is going on and is trying to turn their anxiety and sweat into a show.
In her remarkable first feature film, Shirley Clarke turned her female look into a tough male world and dynamically adapted a much debated at the time theatrical play by Jack Gelber, causing the wrath of the censorship back then which demanded, and actually achieved, the ban of the film for two years. In the meantime, “The Connection” won the first prize in the Critics Week in the 1961 Cannes Film Festival and caused a sensation with the rough manner it chose to film, not only a yet unseen in the cinema social margin, but also an earthly purgatory for a handful of tortured souls who are looking for redemption.
The Connection/Ο Προμηθευτής - Official Trailer-14 from NyxtesPremieras
Σκηνοθεσία / Director
Shirley Clarke
Σενάριο / Screenwriter
Jack Gelber
Φωτογραφία / DoP
Arthur J. Ornitz
Μουσική / Music
Freddie Redd
Μοντάζ / Editor
Shirley Clarke
Ηθοποιοί / Principal Cast
Warren Finnerty, Jerome Raphael
Garry Goodrow, James Anderson
Carl Lee, Barbara Winchester
ΗΠΑ / USA
1961
Ασπρόμαυρο / Black & White
DCP
103'
Αγγλικά / English
