Michael Phillips writes: 'Like many famous directors, (William) Friedkin had more flops than hits, and his fall from Hollywood heights was more conspicuous and painful than most.'
William Friedkin, who directed"The French Connection" and"The Exorcist," in Chicago in 2013.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 most gruesomely influential horror film of the 1970s: “The Exorcist.”
In a scene from the 1973 classic film"The Exorcist," Linda Blair portrays a young girl whose body is possessed by evil. Max Von Sydow, center, and Jason Miller play catholic priests in the movie directed by William Friedkin. Director William Friedkin, of “A Walk Through the Valley,” WGN-TV’s hourlong Chicago documentary, while filming scenes in the Cook County Jail, circa 1961.
The following year, Friedkin’s 52-minute TV special opposing capital punishment “The People vs. Paul Crump” single-handedly saved the life of a wrongly convicted man.in 2018, the director “had heard about Crump’s case from the death row chaplain at a party, and though he had never made a movie, he created on a shoestring a vivid, vibrant and compelling film.
He continued to work both within and outside the slowly dissolving studio system. Twice, he brought plays by Chicago-trained Tracy Letts to the screen, to intriguing results: “Killer Joe” and “Bug.”
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