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Friedkin

FILM Remembrance

We Lost a Lot More Than William Friedkin Yesterday

August 8, 2023August 12, 2023 Ben Schwartz 1 Comment Dirty Harry, Fritz Lang, Gene Hackman, Linda Blair, Sorcerer, Star Wars, The Exorcist, The French Connection, William Friedkin

A way of making movies, and thinking about movies, is vanishing

Podcast

Book and Film Globe Podcasts

BFG Podcast #106

June 12, 2023June 12, 2023 Book and Film Globe Staff 1 Comment Lily-Rose Depp, Sam Levinson, The French Connection, The IDol, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

‘Rise of the Beasts,’ ‘The Idol,’ and censoring ‘The French Connection’

The French Connection

The French Disconnection

June 9, 2023June 14, 2023 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Gene Hackman, Roald Dahl, Stephen King, The Criterion Channel, The French Connection, The Stand, William Friedkin

Criterion Channel’s edit of a classic 1971 film is latest attempt to expunge all traces of past insensitivity