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William David Friedkin (August 29, 1935 – August 7, 2023) was an American film, television and opera director, producer, and screenwriter who was closely identified with the "New Hollywood" movement of the 1970s. Beginning his career in documentaries in the early 1960s, he is best known for his crime thriller film The French Connection (1971), which won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and the horror film The Exorcist (1973), which earned him another Academy Award nomination for Best Director.
Friedkin's other films in the 1970s and 1980s include the drama The Boys in the Band (1970), considered a milestone of queer cinema; the originally deprecated, now lauded…
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William David Friedkin (August 29, 1935 – August 7, 2023) was an American film, television and opera director, producer, and screenwriter who was closely identified with the "New Hollywood" movement of the 1970s. Beginning his career in documentaries in the early 1960s, he is best known for his crime thriller film The French Connection (1971), which won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and the horror film The Exorcist (1973), which earned him another Academy Award nomination for Best Director. Friedkin's other films in the 1970s and 1980s include the drama The Boys in the Band (1970), considered a milestone of queer cinema; the originally deprecated, now lauded thriller Sorcerer (1977); the crime comedy drama The Brink's Job (1978); the controversial thriller Cruising (1980); and the neo-noir thriller To Live and Die in L.A. (1985). Although Friedkin's works suffered an overall commercial and critical decline in the late 1980s, his last three feature films, all based on plays, were positively received by critics: the psychological horror film Bug (2006), the crime film Killer Joe (2011), and the legal drama film The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (2023), released two months after his death. He also worked extensively as an opera director from 1998 until his death, and directed various television films and series episodes for television. Description above from the Wikipedia article William Friedkin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders
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Fear and Love: The Story of The Exorcist
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The Lost Print: The Making of Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons
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Algren
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I Am Alfred Hitchcock
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Fellini of the Spirits
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Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist
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Friedkin Uncut
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Stringman: The Jack Nitzsche Story
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The Devil and Father Amorth
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Return to the Genre
Sorcerers: A Conversation with William Friedkin and Nicolas Winding Refn
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
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Henri Langlois vu par...
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The Making of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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A Fuller Life
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Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck
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Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot
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Stanley Kubrick in Focus
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Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic
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Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of
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Making the Boys
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Miller's Tale
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Godard Made in USA
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The Exorcist Locations: Georgetown Then and Now
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Raising Hell: Filming the Exorcist
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Fasten Your Seatbelt: The Thrilling Art of Alfred Hitchcock
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The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style
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North by Northwest: One for the Ages
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Victor Fleming: Master Craftsman
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Anatomy of a Chase
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Breaking Barriers: The Sound of Hitchcock
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In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy
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Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock
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The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
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Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'
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Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
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The Visions of Stanley Kubrick
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View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'
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Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
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The History of 'Cruising'
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Exorcising 'Cruising'
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Tatort Oper - Wie Filmemacher Oper machen
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The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
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Shadows of Suspense
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Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy
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A Little Solitaire
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Counterfeit World: Making 'To Live and Die in L.A.'
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Filming “The Hunted”
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Pursuing “The Hunted”
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The Cutting Edge
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Narc: The Friedkin Connection
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A Decade Under the Influence
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Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection
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The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'
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Without Limits
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The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist
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Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
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Hollywood Halloween
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Howard Hawks: American Artist
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Fear in the Dark
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Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album
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Conversation with Fritz Lang
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Oscars, Actors and The Exorcist
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