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The monthly drop of the best in physical media including special editions of films by William Friedkin, Alex Proyas, Sidney ...
K and Blu-ray must-haves of June 2025 include J-horror obscurities, and films from Paul Schrader, Terry Gilliam, and William Friedkin.
Bud S. Smith, an Oscar-nominated film editor who was a regular collaborator with William Friedkin and whose other credits include “Putney Swope,” “Flashdance” and “The Karate Kid ...
Bud S. Smith, an Oscar-nominated film editor who was a regular collaborator with William Friedkin and whose other credits include “Putney Swope,” “Flashdance” and “The Karate Kid ...
Sorcerer (1977) In the late, great William Friedkin’s tenacious remake of The Wages of Fear (1953), four criminals truck nitroglycerin across a Central American jungle to stymie an oil field fire.
The fact remains that Friedkin's work – right up to Killer Joe, but certainly most pointedly in the case of Sorcerer, given its pivotal timing and fate – has come to represent something like a ...
Friedkin, who died this week, may be best known for The Exorcist, but this wild 1977 thriller, which was a huge flop at the time, deserves just as much recognition, writes Christina Newland. An ...
The Hollywood Theatre Announces “Sorcerer” Screening in Honor of Filmmaker William Friedkin Friedkin, who also directed “The Exorcist” and “The French Connection,” died Aug. 7.
Friedkin’s follow-up, Sorcerer, revolves around four international fugitive criminals, led by French Connection co-star Roy Scheider, who are hired to drive two trucks filled with explosives ...
For every great film the legendary "Sorcerer" director made, there are one or two projects never realized. William Friedkin, one of the great directors of the New Hollywood movement, died August 7 ...
After Friedkin’s death today at 87, Coppola issued a statement paying tribute to The Exorcist and The French Connection director, which reads in part, “His lovable, irascible personality was ...