Hackman Film Watch 26
Downhill racer sits firmly in the “Gene Hackman is coach” genre. He plays Eugene Claire who is leading the US Ski team two years away from a Winter Olympics.
Due to an injury to his best downhill skier, Eugene is forced to call up David Chapellett (Robert Redford), a talented skier but someone who refuses to be a team player. This really annoys Eugene. Eugene and David do not get on.
Sadly for Eugene, David starts…
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Downhill Racer 1969
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French Connection II 1975
Hackman Film Watch 25
I’d rather be a lamp-post in New York than the President of France - “Popeye” Doyle
In French Connection 2 Gene Hackman once again dons the character of Detective Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle to track down drug overlord Alan Charnier, who escaped by mysterious means at the end of the first film.
In the second film “Popeye” is transplanted into Marseille and hates every minute of it. Unable to speak the language; followed by two policemen wherever…Translated from by
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Last Breath 2025
In Last Breath, Finn Cole plays Chris Lemons, a deep sea diver who is involved in deep sea cable maintenance work off the Scottish Coast. During one such dive, his “umbilical” line is severed and he is cast adrift on the sea bed with only eight minutes of oxygen.
With his support vessel enduring both a violent storm and a computer failure of its steering systems, things look very bleak. However fellow divers, played by Woody Harrelson and Simu Liu…Translated from by -
Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975
On second viewing of Picnic at Hanging Rock the instruction of Headteacher Mrs Appleyard to the school girls embarking in the ill fated trip to Hanging Rock sticks in the mind: “You may remove your gloves after the drag has passed through Woodend.” Such an edict is indicative of the constriction and restraint of the Victorian colonialism that clashes with the strange and alien nature of the Outback. The story is never resolved but the sense of mystery pervades every shot of the film.
Why did Miss Mcgraw, the school’s most experienced member of staff disappear with two school pupils? We will never know.Translated from by
