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William David Friedkin (/ ˈ f r iː d k ɪ n /; August 29, 1935 – August 7, 2023) was an American film, television and opera director, producer, and screenwriter who was closely identified with the "New Hollywood" movement of the 1970s.
Cinematographer Bradford May said director William Friedkin was the most challenging director he had ever worked with because he demanded utmost intensity from every shot. [1] Wanting more intensity from Scott Paulin, the actor who played Price, Friedkin put his face right up to Paulin's and shook him, to the shock of the cast and crew. [1]
Jason Miller, who worked with Friedkin in The Exorcist, tapped him to direct a film adaptation of his Pulitzer Prize winning play That Championship Season. Friedkin offered the role of Coach Delaney to William Holden, but Holden died before he could accept. Friedkin then left the project thus Miller directed the film with Robert Mitchum as ...
Friedkin, in many ways, used the cinema to say the unsayable: to show us that cops and criminals existed along the same continuum, and that even in the atheistic modern world, Satan lived.
Damien Chazelle paid tribute to late great director William Friedkin on Sunday in a moving speech at the Venice Film Festival where Friedkin’s last film “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial ...
William Friedkin, the generation-defining director who brought a visceral realism to 1970s hits “The French Connection” and “The Exorcist" and was quickly anointed one of Hollywood's top ...
The film marks a posthumous release for Reddick and Friedkin, who both died in 2023 on March 17 and August 7, respectively, and is Friedkin's final work. [4] The film premiered on September 3, 2023 at the 80th Venice International Film Festival and was released in the United States on October 6, 2023 on Paramount+ with Showtime by Republic ...
Those are exact quotes from William Friedkin talking about William Friedkin, in the context of the filmmaker’s intentional lack of conventional artifice on what became his biggest hit and the ...