‘One Battle After Another’ Is Almost Here. Watch These Eight Films To Prepare

Hollywood movies don’t get much better than The French Connection, one of the great successes of ‘70s American cinema, and another of Anderson’s TCM picks. A fictionalized adaptation of Robin Moore’s true-crime book of the same name, The French Connection stars Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider as NYPD narcotics detectives Popeye Doyle and Cloudy Russo, on the trail of a wealthy French heroin smuggler. Director William Friedkin led a famously chaotic production, which only served the…