Celebrating Gene Hackman

Celebrating Gene Hackman

8 Episodes

Perhaps no actor embodied the pervasive anxiety and unsettling moral ambiguity of the New Hollywood era as fully as Gene Hackman. With his nuanced, unfailingly realistic approach to acting, Hackman brought a moody intensity to defining films of the 1970s like THE FRENCH CONNECTION and NIGHT MOVES, tapping into the paranoia and downbeat disillusionment of the era. With late-career triumphs like THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS, Hackman remained one of the most respected veterans of his generation, a consummate character craftsman who could bridge the fallible and the heroic with unmatched authenticity.

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Celebrating Gene Hackman

8 Episodes

  • Celebrating Gene Hackman Teaser
    01:19
    Celebrating Gene Hackman Teaser
    Episode 1

    Celebrating Gene Hackman Teaser

    Episode 1

  • The French Connection
    1:43:46
    The French Connection
    Episode 2

    The French Connection

    Episode 2

    Directed by William Friedkin • 1971 • United States
    Starring Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider

    When NYPD detectives Popeye Doyle (Gene Hackman) and Buddy Russo (Roy Scheider) launch a deadly pursuit to bust up a narcotics smuggling ring, they uncover a plot that stretches all the way to F...

  • The Royal Tenenbaums
    1:49:58
    The Royal Tenenbaums
    Episode 3

    The Royal Tenenbaums

    Episode 3

    Directed by Wes Anderson • 2001 • United States
    Starring Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller

    Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) and his wife, Etheline (Anjelica Huston), had three children—Chas, Margot, and Richie—and then they separated. Chas (Ben Stiller) started buying real estate in his e...

  • The Conversation
    1:53:41
    The Conversation
    Episode 4

    The Conversation

    Episode 4

    Directed by Francis Ford Coppola • 1974 • United States
    Starring Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield

    The ultimate Watergate-era paranoia thriller, Francis Ford Coppola’s cold-sweat neonoir stars Gene Hackman as Harry Caul, an obsessive audio-surveillance expert who has been hired to track ...

  • Scarecrow
    1:52:22
    Scarecrow
    Episode 5

    Scarecrow

    Episode 5

    Directed by Jerry Schatzberg • 1973 • United States
    Starring Gene Hackman, Al Pacino, Dorothy Tristan

    Unforgettable performances from Gene Hackman and Al Pacino, the sensitive direction of Jerry Schatzberg, and the glowing landscape cinematography of Vilmos Zsigmond come together for one of the ...

  • Night Moves
    1:39:53
    Night Moves
    Episode 6

    Night Moves

    Episode 6

    Directed by Arthur Penn • 1975 • United States
    Starring Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Edward Binns

    Arthur Penn’s haunting neonoir reimagines the hard-boiled detective film for the disillusioned, paranoid 1970s. In one of his greatest performances, Gene Hackman oozes world-weary cynicism as a pr...

  • Eureka
    2:09:44
    Eureka
    Episode 7

    Eureka

    Episode 7

    Directed by Nicolas Roeg • 1983 • United Kingdom, United States
    Starring Gene Hackman, Theresa Russell, Rutger Hauer

    A typically hallucinatory, fascinatingly fractured work of grandiose mythmaking from Nicolas Roeg, EUREKA was roundly ignored upon its release, but in its strangeness and sheer au...

  • No Way Out
    1:54:24
    No Way Out
    Episode 8

    No Way Out

    Episode 8

    Directed by Roger Donaldson • 1987 • United States
    Starring Gene Hackman, Kevin Costner, Sean Young

    Based on Kenneth Fearing’s classic suspense novel THE BIG CLOCK (famously the basis for the 1948 Ray Milland/Charles Laughton noir), this gripping, inspired reimagining resets the story against th...

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