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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

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The French Connection
FILM 

The French Disconnection

June 9, 2023June 14, 2023 Michael Washburn 1 Comment 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

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CREATORS Directors FILM 

Dante Speak

October 2, 2019October 2, 2019 Kevin L. Jones 0 Comments Bill Hader, James Adomian, Joe Dante, Josh Olson, The Movies That Made Me, William Friedkin

The Movies of ‘The Movies That Made Me’

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Featured Stories

‘The Invite’ Prompt Was — Bergman, But Make It Funny!
Comedy Featured Stories FILM 

‘The Invite’ Prompt Was — Bergman, But Make It Funny!

July 11, 2026July 14, 2026 Laura Pruden 1

Olivia Wilde directs and acts in a comedy about love and marriage in middle-age

Traumatized Young Woman?
Featured Stories FILM 

Traumatized Young Woman?

July 10, 2026July 14, 2026 Neal Pollack 1
‘Reading Lolita in Tehran’ With the Revolutionary Guard
Featured Stories FILM 

‘Reading Lolita in Tehran’ With the Revolutionary Guard

July 8, 2026July 10, 2026 William Schwartz 0
The Long, Poisonous Roots of Conspiracy Theories
BOOKS Featured Stories 

The Long, Poisonous Roots of Conspiracy Theories

July 8, 2026July 10, 2026 Gordon Haber 0

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