Directed by Jerry Schatzberg • 1971 • United States
Starring Al Pacino, Kitty Winn, Alan Vint
A fragile romance unfolds against the backdrop of 1970s New York in this unsparing look at heroin addiction, scripted by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne and directed by Jerry Schatzberg. Taking its title from a nickname for the Upper West Side park where heroin users once congregated, THE PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK stars Al Pacino in his first major film role as a junkie who falls in love with a young homeless woman (Kitty Winn, winner of the best actress award at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival)—leading them both down a dangerous path of addiction, crime, and desperation.
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The French Connection
Directed by William Friedkin • 1971 • United States
Starring Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy ScheiderWhen 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...
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Little Murders
Directed by Alan Arkin • 1971 • United States
Starring Elliott Gould, Marcia Rodd, Vincent GardeniaThe black-comic stage play by writer and Pulitzer Prize–winning cartoonist Jules Feiffer provides the basis for Alan Arkin’s directorial debut, a surreal satire of urban alienation and the sensele...
