译 名 药头
片 名 The Connection
年 代 1961
产 地 美国
类 别 剧情
语 言 英语
上映日期 1961-05(戛纳电影节)
豆瓣链接 https://movie.douban.com/subject/1477195/
片 长 110 分钟
导 演 雪莉·克拉克 / Shirley Clarke
演 员 Barbara Winchester Barbara Winchester
Jerome Raphael Jerome Raphael
Freddie Redd Freddie Redd
威廉·雷德菲尔德 / William Redfield
Henry Proach Henry Proach
Jackie McLean Jackie McLean
卡尔·李 / Carl Lee
罗斯科·李·布朗尼 / Roscoe Lee Browne
华伦芬纳蒂 / Warren Finnerty
编 剧 杰克·盖尔伯 / Jack Gelber
制 片 人 Lewis M. Allen Lewis M. Allen
雪莉·克拉克 / Shirley Clarke
音 乐 Freddie Redd Freddie Redd
摄 影 Arthur J. Ornitz Arthur J. Ornitz
剪 辑 雪莉·克拉克 / Shirley Clarke
美 术 艾尔伯特·布伦纳 / Albert Brenner
理查德·希尔伯特 / Richard Sylbert
服 装 鲁斯·莫利 / Ruth Morley
简 介
THE CONNECTION is one of the most vital fascinating films of the American independent world. Created by a woman director Shirley Clarke at a time when they were in very short supply the film shattered stereotypes in just about every conceivable way. And yet the film remained unseen for many years.
The Connection was a play within a play within a jazz concert. It portrayed a group of drug addicts some of them jazz musicians waiting in a New York loft apartment for their drug connection. A producer and a writer meanwhile have entered their lives to study them and write a play about them. The brilliantly written Beat dialogue was blended with jazz music written by the great pianist Freddie Redd.
Clarke changed the character of the writer to Jim Dunn a young preppy filmmaker out to make a name for himself by documenting the "scene." As Clarke was best friends with the hot new indie directors she added a level of humor by poking fun at the cinema verité movement. She also chose to keep the play's one-set constriction but she combined the French New Wave’s mobile camera with a whirling choreography of movement and jazz to create an exciting kinetic film that was acclaimed at the Cannes International Film Festival as a masterpiece. Yet even knowing the avant garde nature of the play and her film little could Clarke recognize the furor the film was about to create.