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Aug 9, 2023 17:53
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Bug is a kickass flick and underrated/underseen Friedkin. Go watch it!
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Aug 9, 2023 18:24
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MacheteZombie posted:Bug is a kickass flick and underrated/underseen Friedkin. Go watch it! I watched it to take my mind off a panic attack I was having and that was not a good idea
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Aug 9, 2023 18:25
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Oh no lol Michael Shannon gives a great performance though.
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Aug 9, 2023 18:44
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The Hunted was just OK. Mid-Friedkin at best Edit: lol I forgot he did Rules of Engagement. It nailed some of the worst mentality of the War on Terror before 9/11 even happened. Eason the Fifth fucked around with this message at 18:55 on Aug 9, 2023 |
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Aug 9, 2023 18:53
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Definitely lower tier yea
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Aug 9, 2023 18:53
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I had no idea 12 angry men was a period piece, isn't it set in like the 50's or 60's? Edit: OK yeah he didn't do THAT one. If I'm going to rewatch the French Connection and the Exorcist, and check out Sorcerer for the first time, what's one other film I should add, Cruising? Are any of his documentaries particularly well recommended? Jack B Nimble fucked around with this message at 19:27 on Aug 9, 2023 |
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Aug 9, 2023 19:23
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Jack B Nimble posted:I had no idea 12 angry men was a period piece, isn't it set in like the 50's or 60's? To Live and Die in LA is really loving good.
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Aug 9, 2023 19:39
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Good time to grab a bucket of fried chicken and throw on Killer Joe (2011)
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Aug 9, 2023 19:50
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Killer Joe Sorcerer French Connection Exorcist is a dream oeuvre that many directors wish they had. He was a g and one of my favorites all time. RIP
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Aug 9, 2023 20:49
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I'm reminded that I need to watch The Guardian. I always watch the Criterion collection closet videos and remember his from nearly ten years back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63VRJQYcNn0 https://www.criterion.com/current/top-10-lists/185-william-friedkin-s-top-10
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Aug 9, 2023 22:59
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I'm watching The French Connection right now. Watched To Live and Die in La last night.
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Aug 10, 2023 00:04
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French Connection is such a downer of a watch.
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Aug 10, 2023 00:21
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Jack B Nimble posted:I had no idea 12 angry men was a period piece, isn't it set in like the 50's or 60's? Do The Boys in the Band and Cruising back to back. The two queer movies that bookend his 70s run.
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Aug 10, 2023 02:00
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Honestly after watching a lot of Friedkin films I kind of feel the dude was a cynic. A lot of his movies are downers. edit: Just watched Friedkin's Rampage. Total loving downer of a movie. Hollismason fucked around with this message at 01:36 on Aug 11, 2023 |
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Aug 11, 2023 01:14
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Seeing Sorcerer in 35mm is something I’ll never forget.
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Aug 11, 2023 17:58
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In terms of rear end in a top hat genius directors, how rear end in a top hat or genius he was?
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Aug 11, 2023 19:38
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I strongly suspect that some of the boys in that particular band may have been homosexuals.
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Aug 11, 2023 22:00
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I just watched Cruising for the first time. drat that was good. It's cool how much of it is just Pacino walking around observing poo poo.
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Aug 11, 2023 22:35
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CPL593H posted:I strongly suspect that some of the boys in that particular band may have been homosexuals. I'm straighter than straight, but The Boys in the Band is easily a top-3 Friedkin for me (The Exorcist and To Live and Die in LA would round out the top 3). Just a powerful and wonderful little movie (which works because it follows the staging of the play almost 1:1). The Netflix version from 2020, with Jim Parsons and Zachary Quinto, on the other hand, was just a miserable slog with zero pathos whatsoever, and I do not understand the critical love that it got in any way.
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Aug 11, 2023 23:19
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Timby posted:The Netflix version from 2020, with Jim Parsons and Zachary Quinto, on the other hand, was just a miserable slog with zero pathos whatsoever, and I do not understand the critical love that it got in any way. Quinto is so awful in that. When Leonard Frey's version of that character shows up in 1970 version you immediately get why all these people are in the same friend group. When Quinto shows up he's a nothing person in a poo poo afro wig.
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Aug 11, 2023 23:28
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High Warlord Zog posted:Quinto is so awful in that. When Leonard Frey's version of that character shows up in 1970 version you immediately get why all these people are in the same friend group. When Quinto shows up he's a nothing person in a poo poo afro wig. Quinto is awful in most things. Like, okay, he was fine, I guess, as Sylar in Heroes, but that was a cast full of terrible actors so he stood out because he could emote a little bit. And then JJ Abrams cast him as Spock in Star Trek 2009 just because a bunch of Internet fans and some magazines like EW freaked out about how much he (kinda, sorta, if you squint a bit) resembled a young Leonard Nimoy.
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Aug 12, 2023 01:53
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To Live and Die I L.A. is one of my favorite movies, so good. Welp, time for a rewatch.
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Aug 13, 2023 00:08
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never gets old https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jPWGEoyJHY I love his late career adapting Tracy Letts' hosed up plays. (Letts is one hell of an actor too) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wktzeHfRBs R.I.P. king
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Aug 13, 2023 06:44
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Killer Joe is one of the most wonderfully unpleasant film screening Ive ever been to and a memory Ill cherish forever. Half the audience was howling, half left by the fried chicken scene. Me and my friend lept out of our seats at the ending moment. Just pure madness in a basement indie theater on a hot NYC day. The perfect Friedkin experience. I will miss this mans movies so so so much. He was truly one of a kind. A type of filmmaker personality youll just simply never see again. AccountSupervisor fucked around with this message at 12:25 on Aug 13, 2023 |
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Aug 13, 2023 12:21
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Fish of hemp posted:In terms of rear end in a top hat genius directors, how rear end in a top hat or genius he was? Do you love him? Do you trust him? 
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Aug 13, 2023 14:18
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Those bridge scenes in Sorcerer are something.
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Aug 14, 2023 02:49
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Fish of hemp posted:In terms of rear end in a top hat genius directors, how rear end in a top hat or genius he was? A lotta both
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Aug 14, 2023 20:22
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An extremely skilled director with terrible politics and an abrassive personality. It was weird that he directed a decent chunk of the consensus 'best films ever made' and didn't have anything like the household name status some of his contemporaries did. Also, no one posted this but I saw it and loved it.
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Aug 15, 2023 00:03
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Watched Friedkin's feature debut Good Times last night for the first time. Sonny and Cher were under contract to make a film for ABC Films (and to be released through Columbia), but the script was poo poo. Bono and Friedkin ended up rewriting it from scratch to be a self-reflexive mockery of itself. Doesn't really work 100%. I initially thought it was a ripoff of the Monkees' Head, except this came out a year before in 1967. It does have some neat camera work. What's interesting about Friedkin's first three films (this, The Night They Raided Minsky's, and The Birthday Party) is that he's keeping the camera constantly moving and opting for some interesting editing tricks like quick cuts and even optical effects. The Kino Blu-ray is out of print now, but they filmed a great interview with Friedkin about the film. He picked directing it over being assigned as second unit director for John Frankenheimer's Grand Prix, which probably worked out better for him. For that matter, I find Minsky's and The Birthday Party to be interesting films, even if he didn't make a great film until The Boys in the Band.
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Aug 15, 2023 00:36
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Was not as taken by French Connection as I was Cruising. Hackman delivered tho.
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Aug 15, 2023 01:51
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drat it, both To Live and Die in LA and Sorcerer are checked out of the local library. Gotta wait at least another week for either one.
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Aug 15, 2023 04:10
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https://twitter.com/ATRightMovies/status/1691374177062965248
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Aug 15, 2023 10:18
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I'll get this out of the way first: William Friedkin was a psycho and shithead and I sincerely hope that there was at least one point in his adult life where someone decked him right in the face and got away with it. That being said, the guy was on a roll in the 70s for sure. Sorcerer and The Exorcist in particular still hold up going on fifty (!) years now. I'd just revisited them recently so this news hits a bit harder for me than it otherwise might've. I also caught the recent documentary Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist which plays like a commentary track with pictures, but Friedkin gets so into telling his anecdotes it's a worthwhile watch regardless. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/leap_of_faith_2019
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Aug 16, 2023 22:06
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Just watched Sorcerer myself today, pretty good stuff though there is this kind of lull after the intros and before they get into the truck. Bridge scenes were iconic and some of those deaths are big surprises. Conceptually I have to wonder how a big oil company can’t just find more dynamite quickly, but guess they hired these guys for pretty cheap. Any reason for the title beyond being on one of the trucks?
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Aug 16, 2023 22:14
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Watched his last film of the 70s, The Brink's Job. Not one of his masterpieces, but I liked the vibe from it like he was trying to make his own Dassin or Melville heist film. It's got a stacked cast: Peter Falk, Allen Garfield, Peter Boyle, Gena Rowlands, Warren Oates, and Paul Sorvino. I liked how the thieves are relatable and cool in this, while the cops and feds are lovely.
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Aug 17, 2023 01:22
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Egbert Souse posted:I liked how the thieves are relatable and cool in this, while the cops and feds are lovely. Seems like a common theme in his movies (re-posting from the first reactions thread): Nightmare Cinema posted:To Live And Die In LA - The BALLS on this movie. The cool factor... the culture... I feel like doing manly things. My hands are too soft. I am drinking a HARP and downing an oven-crisp frozen pizza as I type.
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Aug 17, 2023 01:40
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Nightmare Cinema posted:Seems like a common theme in his movies (re-posting from the first reactions thread): I dunno, Killer Joe presents a pretty sympathetic cop
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Aug 17, 2023 02:19
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Is there any connection between the fake suicide jump on the Vincent Thomas bridge in TLADILA with Tony Scott's actual suicide?
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Aug 17, 2023 06:06
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checkplease posted:Just watched Sorcerer myself today, pretty good stuff though there is this kind of lull after the intros and before they get into the truck. Funny you should mention, it was only in the past year or so that a full copy of the heavily altered European cut finally surfaced online (under the title Wages of Fear*), and it's quite evident that the pacing was a primary concern the producers were trying to "fix" in this edit. It's a lesser film than Friedkin's cut for sure, but many of the edits are clever, it uses a lot of alternate footage, and if nothing else it does indeed go by faster! https://archive.org/details/wages-of-fear-fin-vhs (*Edit: I should probably clarify that I am indeed talking about a genuine alternate cut of Friedkin's Sorcerer and am not simply making a cheeky reference to its 1950s French predecessor Wages of Fear, haha). SidneyIsTheKiller fucked around with this message at 11:20 on Aug 17, 2023 |
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Aug 17, 2023 08:52
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