the William Friedkin poll

haha only in ILX!

great interview (spoilery abt 'killer joe' i guess so skip or skim certain parts if need be):

http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/the-crooked-timber-a-conversation-with-william-friedkin

I saw Killer Joe today expecting not all that much and I thought it was kind of...awesome.

Thomas Haden Church in particular was excellent. Struggling to think what else I really remember him from, but he was great in this.

yeah i thought it was fantastic

Church was in Sideways and the last Tobey Maguire Spider Man.

First post I ever had on here, seven years ago under my own name, had to do with the unfortunate certainty that Church wouldn't win supporting actor for Sideways.

In Anticipation of Morgan Freeman Beating Thomas Haden Church

this might be my fav movie of the year

okay watched TLADILA cuz of this poll and and lol, great-looking and ultimately very silly movie but very fun

all the randomly homoerotic swearing just cracked me up

you pullin my dick?
your taste is in your ass!
etc

by the end we were just making up our own sweary action movie lines

now who's stuck wearin the fuck hat

lol

can we get Sorcerer on bluray plz? IIRC the DVD is pan&scan!

oh my god, what a clusterfuck

http://www.deadline.com/2012/04/william-friedkin-takes-paramount-universal-to-court-over-%E2%80%98sorcerer%E2%80%99/

Bug (2010) 0

underrated

didn't think a whole helluva lot of Killer Joe, tho Mac and Juno Temple have good moments. A lot of it is awfully familiar amid the flesh and splatter.

oh, and Thomas Haden Church gets some good laughs. Temple and Emile Hirsch miscast tho.

big transgressive chicken scene is just vicious and unenlightening.

unenlightening

You're running out of words to hide your latent moral disapproval over people getting off on naughty cinema.

howbout "pointless"

I like getting off as much as anyone, but movies gen don't do that for me.

Maybe if you had a popcorn box handy.

he claims Sorcerer BR is coming, and is flummoxed by unmedicated aspect-ratio blogger Jeff Wells.

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2013/02/sorcerer.php

I used to be a licensed theatrical projectionist so don't tell me.

more details on Sorcerer reissue / dvd

http://www.thewrap.com/movies/article/william-friedkins-misunderstood-1977-sorcerer-getting-re-release-exclusive-81966

"...as he recounts in his upcoming memoir 'The Friedkin Connection,' the release of 'Star Wars' that same year made it a film out of time and place.

'The zeitgeist had changed by the time it came out,' Friedkin said."

I'm looking forward to this (never seen it), but that seems like a rather self-serving simplification. My distinct memory--I was 15 at the time--was that there was a certain amount of confusion created by the title and the marketing; people were expecting another horror film, and there was some backlash when it turned out to be otherwise. It's not like Star Wars instantaneously killed interest in large-scale ambitious films. To name one obvious example, The Deer Hunter won awards and made back three or four times its cost a year later.

yeah, i wrote that comment off as bullshit.

Friedkin tells a story in Easy Riders... about how Sorcerer was the film programmed directly after the initial engagement of Star Wars at Grauman's theatre (or some other landmark Hollywood place--I forget), which was like a week. The trailer for his film ran before all the SW screenings, and one evening he took his new bride Jeanne Moreau to see both. After the film was over, he talked to the manager, who told him that if Sorcerer didn't deliver the goods audience-wise when it opened, they would pull it in favor of more Star Wars screenings (it had sold out every show there thus far). Of course, Sorcerer didn't bring them in, and I think that whole experience has colored Friedkin's memories of the whole bloody affair.

Also, lol at this poster/flier

http://images.moviepostershop.com/sorcerer-movie-poster-1977-1010204873.jpg

Brooklyn retro, Boys in the Band through Cruising; two Q&As:

http://www.bam.org/film/2013/friedkin70s

has he ever directly addressed all the homoeroticism/homosexual themes in his movies

(I'm under the impression that he's straight correct me if I'm wrong)

friedkin is 87% full of shit but sorcerer is a great movie.

btw those last posts remind me of when someone asked david fincher about homoerotic elements of "fight club" and he got all mad and was like "what are you talking about bro?"

better to ask Chuck Palahniuk and his boyfriend mebbe

so that's a no then

I would think he'd be a little cooler about than Fincher, at least a couple of his films are explicitly about gay characters/culture and then there's all the wierd shit in things like To Live and Die in LA that seem pretty consciously thrown in there...

You could get quite fucked up playing a 'Hi Bob' game with the featurettes on the Cruising dvd. Your keywords: Friedkin saying "Leather Bar".

Friedkin writes in his book about Mart Crowley taking him to Fire Island before filming Boys in the Band so he could soak up the milieu. I think he's pretty hetero.

“Cruising,” was set in the clubs – not the gay clubs, but the S&M clubs, which many gay people had never seen – which to me was just an exotic background. By the time it came out, the gay liberation movement was very strong. And this sort of subject matter was not the best foot forward at that time. So I understood the protests, I really did. But I was not thinking, when I made the film, about how this would affect gay liberation or not. When you’re making a film, you don’t start to think of the social consequences, or whether there will be any. Now, that might have been nearsighted on my part. But that’s the way I felt.

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/29/i-thought-i-was-bulletproof-william-friedkin-looks-back-on-the-seventies/

Sorcerer is a good, visceral spin on its great predecessor. There's one edit, involving the rope bridge in the poster, that I think is a bit of a cheat, but it's pretty gripping once he's done with the time-marking backstories (which are there to establish the principals as killers). And this might be Roy Scheider's best performance.

(It also felt very Peckinpah to me, then I saw in the credits that Walon Green of The Wild Bunch wrote it. Had no idea he's been busy with the various Law & Order series for the last 20 years.)

Still need to see that

Adding to the Peckinpah thing: Friedkin approached Steve McQueen to play the Scheider part, but McQueen said no when Friedkin refused to add Ali McGraw into the deal as anything from actress to a bs "producer" credit.

he talked about that in the Q&A; said he still regrets not acceding to the demand (Mastroianni and Lino Ventura also dropped out).

choice quote: "I couldn't watch (Marvel's) The Avengers if it meant getting off double murder." (I clapped.)

director of jade has opinions

he then said "It's not the film, it's me; I don't get it."

Saw tladila, liked tladila, placing it above french connection is lol

kinda agree darragh, and ive been a big tladila advocate around here

I'd probably vote cruising if this was done again

Sarris was def not a fan of Sorcerer

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1299&dat=19770718&id=5PZNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=OYsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5900,1064206

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/04/nyregion/crime-scene-chasing-down-a-gps-blip-to-a-stolen-iphone.html

“I honestly have never thought the idea that these were ‘gay movies made by a straight director.’”

http://flavorwire.com/394993/flavorwire-interview-william-friedkin-on-the-controversial-legacies-of-the-boys-in-the-band-and-cruising

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