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At the risk of coming over all Alan Partridge when he was still stuck in the static home watching Bond films, if you fancy a weekend movie marathon, you could do an awful lot worse than going with Gene Hackman<\/a> as a theme. Not only will you get amazing movies from every decade between the 1960s and 2010, but you\u2019ll also honour the man himself, who sadly died this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n A double Oscar winner, Hackman excelled in almost every genre you can think of, from Superhero<\/a> to western to comedy to modern warfare, and his best films rank up there with the very best that any actor has to offer. <\/p>\n The likes of Francis Ford Coppola\u2019s The Conversation from 1974, Clint Eastwood\u2019s Unforgiven in 1992 and 1971\u2019s The French Connection are quite simply must-watches for anyone who professes to love film, and Hackman is untouchable in each of them. <\/p>\n That\u2019s aside from lesser-known movies that reward just as much as those, like the fantastic Scarecrow with Al Pacino, the road film from 1973 that saw both lead actors prepare for their roles by pretending to be homeless beggars in San Francisco. Then there\u2019s Night Moves from two years later, Hackman superb as a private investigator dragged into a nightmarish set of circumstances while searching for a missing girl.<\/p>\n Hackman was still at the peak of his powers through the 1980s, too, starting off the decade in Warren Beatty\u2019s Russian Revolution epic Reds and then Hoosiers in 1986, known as one of the best sports films of all time. Hackman was perhaps overshadowed by Dennis Hopper, who got an Academy Award nomination, but the balance was redressed when the lead actor picked up a nomination for the harrowing Deep South drama\u00a0Mississippi Burning\u00a0in 1989.<\/p>\n