The Friedkin Connection
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""[This book] captures the gut-wrenching shifts of a filmmaker’s life—the bizarre whipsaw from success to disaster.” —Variety
An acclaimed memoir from William Friedkin, a maverick of American cinema and Academy Award–winning director of such legendary films as The French Connection, The Exorcist, and To Live and Die in LA. The Friedkin Connection takes readers from the streets of Chicago to the suites of Hollywood and from the sixties to today, with autobiographical storytelling as fast-paced and intense as any of the auteur's films.
In this book, William Friedkin, offers a candid look at a thrilling era of Hollywood cinema, when traditional storytelling gave way to the rebellious and alternative; when filmmakers like him captured the paranoia and fear of a nation undergoing a cultural nervous breakdown.
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A riveting autobiography of a unique director
To say William Friedkin‘s career is highly uneven is an understatement. Most of his films bombed at the box office, but he’s made some of the most interesting yet uneven movies ever made; these include the masterpiece Sorcerer and To Live and Die in LA. In this fascinating autobiography, the author admits his mistakes and how he became drunk with success after the French Connection and the Exorcist and started to believe in his own superpowers as a successful director. The price he paid was hard and steep and his career after The Exorcist has been marked by deep disappointments. Yet this biography is incredibly interesting. Friedkin is open honest and hard on himself and has a unique personality and sense of humor. He was the last of the new wave of film directors that very briefly ruled Hollywood in the early 1970s but did not want to (or could not) adopt his bleak, cynical, and nihilistic style of filmmaking to the changing tastes of movie audiences. A must read!