William Friedkin Dies: Oscar-Winning ‘French Connection’ Director & ‘Exorcist’ Nominee Was 87

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• chickenwing@lemmy.film ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Very sad he was one of the best. The Exorcist is incredible. I still need to watch Sorcerer.

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  • HollandJim@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sorcer is my favorite film of his - incredibly tense!

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• moonbairn@lemmy.film ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  French Connection has one of the greatest car chase scenes in film history. Popeye Doyle was a great bad ass cop with serious anger issues.

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  • niktemadur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Every few years I return to French Connection, and the gritty realism, a lot of which was reportedly filmed without permits, guerrilla-style, blows me away every time. New Hollywood indeed!

    Then there’s the way the title cards and music set an incredible tone, grab you by the neck from the very get-go. This must have been astonishing in 1971. Hell… it won the Oscar for Best Film!

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• decadentrebel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t care what everyone says: Killer Joe was one of the best films of that year and is incredibly funny.

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