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	William Friedkin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Friedkin (born August 29, 1935 in Chicago, Illinois) is a Jewish-American movie and television director, producer, and writer best known for directing The Exorcist and The French Connection in the early 1970's.
		Friedkin followed it up with 1973's The Exorcist based on William Peter Blatty's best-selling novel, which revolutionized the horror genre and is considered one of the greatest horror movies of all time.
		By this point, Friedkin, along with Francis Coppola and Peter Bogdanovich, was thought of as one of the premier directors in Hollywood and many expected him to continue his string of blockbuster hits.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Friedkin (479 words)

	'The Exorcist' 25 years later: Director William Friedkin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		William Friedkin: He's still alive, and according to people close to him he has no memory of what happened to him when he was 14 years old in 1949, and has no knowledge of either the book or the film as far as we know.
		William Friedkin: The initial response to the first screening was one of schocked silence, so we weren't sure how it had effected people, but I can tell you that that first audience at the National Theater in Westwood, California remained in their seats without moving or saying anything for at least 15 minutes.
		William Friedkin: I felt that in reality the mother and others in the household would not be in the room, because of the disturbing things that went on there.
	www.usatoday.com /community/chat/1011friedkin.htm (3143 words)

	ipedia.com: William Friedkin Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		William Friedkin (born August 29, 1935 in Chicago, Illinois) is a movie and television director, producer, and writer best known for directing The Exorcist and The French Connection in the early 1970’s.
		Friedkin followed with 1973’s The Exorcist which revolutionized the horror genre and is considered one of the greatest horror movies of all time.
		By this point, Friedkin was thought of as one of the premier directors in Hollywood and many expected him to continue his string of blockbuster hits.
	www.ipedia.com /william_friedkin.html (355 words)

	The Exorcist (1973) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Each year, Father William O'Malley talks about his experience with the movie after students watch it on the same floor where it was filmed.
		William Peter Blatty's script is amazing, bringing depth to the characters, and presenting the mystery of faith that they all deal with.
		Friedkin's direction is marvelous, with wonderful uses of light, dark, and color throughout the film.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0070047 (718 words)

	William Friedkin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Friedkin joined the front rank of American directors with three adroitly handled and very different films: the finely acted adaptation of Mart Crowley's play The Boys in the Band (1970); the hardhitting Academy Award-winner THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971); and the trendsetting horror masterpiece THE EXORCIST (1973).
		Friedkin is the youngest winner of an Academy Award for Best Director; he was 32 when he won the Oscar for THE FRENCH CONNECTION.
		Friedkin ha been married to actress-director Jeanne Moreau from 1977 until 1979, actress Lesley-Anne Down (1982-1985), Kelly Lange (1987-1990) and actress Sherry Lansing (1991 -).
	theoscarsite.com /whoswho5/friedkin_w.htm (227 words)

	William Friedkin
		Friedkin met with much success during the early '70's, winning Oscars for his work on both The French Connection and The Exorcist.
		Rules of Engagement, one of the best courtroom dramas of 2000, marked Friedkin's first true return to the land of studio blockbusters in nearly 25 years.
		Friedkin is currently married to Paramount boss Sherry Lansing.
	centerstage.net /theatre/whoswho/WilliamFriedkin.html (94 words)

	The Exorcist \| William Friedkin \| movies : ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Friedkin believes the misperception helped his film get nearly shut out of the Oscar race that year (of its 10 nominations, it won only for its screenplay and sound).
		Friedkin finally got impetus to head back into the editing room in 1998 when the film was released on DVD in the U.S., and rereleased, for its 25th anniversary, in movie theaters in Great Britain -- where it became a No. 1 hit.
		Friedkin has nothing but praise for Blair's on set behavior, but he admits he didn't dote quite so much on the grown ups in the cast.
	www.ew.com /ew/report/0,6115,85569~1~~,00.html (894 words)

	Greg Suarez interviews director William Friedkin
		Director William Friedkin does something in his films that very, very few other filmmakers have the acumen and creativity to achieve - he makes you think.
		Friedkin tries very hard not to interject his own judgements into the plots of his films.
		Rather, he structures his work so that the audience can't help but to be drawn in by the drama unfolding before their eyes.
	www.thedigitalbits.com /articles/friedkin/friedkininterview.html (1438 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Interviews \| William Friedkin (I)
		William Friedkin - the director of The Exorcist, perhaps the most famous horror film of all time, and The French Connection, one of the best films of the 1970s - talked to Mark Kermode about his long and distinguished career.
		William Friedkin on: his early career in television
		He handed it to me like a dead fish to shake and he said: "Mr Friedkin, I see that you're not wearing a tie." And I thought he was putting me on.
	film.guardian.co.uk /interview/interviewpages/0,,446917,00.html (2968 words)

	William Friedkin Being Sued over To Live and Die in L.A. DVD Revenues
		According to Variety, Director William Friedkin was sued Monday by an heir of producer Irving Levin over DVD revenues from the film To Live and Die in L.A, the 1984 film that Friedkin directed and Levin produced.
		Levin died in 1996, and the plaintiff daughter Sindee Levin, alleges that on behalf of SLM, she entered into an oral agreement to assign all of the rights to Friedkin in exchange for 50% of the profits from DVD sales.
		Her suit, for breach of oral and written contract, alleges that Friedkin alone entered into a distribution agreement with MGM for the DVD rights.
	www.movieweb.com /dvd/news/news.php?id=8924 (566 words)

	THE HUNTED - WIDESCREEN DVD/William Friedkin: Films of Aberration, Obsession and Reality - BOOKS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		the most insightful analysis of Friedkin's body of work to date, prefacing each film-by-film dissection with rich and frank backstory culled from hundreds of sources (including interviews Clagett personally conducted with Friedkin), all meticulously cited at the end of the text.
		Tears of the Sun comes William Friedkin's The Hunted--a film that introduces its titular fugitive in a flashback to Kosovo at the height of the Albanian genocide.
		In the umpteenth reiteration of Jones' "most dangerous game" cerebral man-hunter role, Jones throws a bit of a curveball in a performance that reminds a great deal of an aging, typecast actor pretending to be a werewolf.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/hunted.htm (783 words)

	The Exorcist
		Friedkin made his feature-film debut with the 1967 Sonny and Cher vehicle Good Times.
		Friedkin scored a huge success in 1971 directing the critically acclaimed hit The French Connection, starring Gene Hackman.
		In 1997, Friedkin was nominated for a DGA award for his direction of the television remake of the courtroom classic 12 Angry Men, starring Jack Lemmon and George C. Scott.
	www.tnt.tv /title/?oid=36448-2599 (212 words)

	William Friedkin @ Filmbug
		William Friedkin, at 16, began working in the mailroom of a local TV station in his native Chicago, and within months had worked his way up to floor manager in live television.
		Friedkin's most formative experience as a filmmaker nevertheless remains his work in documentaries, primarily for producer David Wolper in the late 1960s.
		Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party (1969) and The Boys in the Band (1970), Friedkin directed his critical breakout film, The French Connection (1971), for which he won an Academy Award.
	www.filmbug.com /db/31552 (394 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Interview - William Friedkin
		In 1973, William Friedkin permanently changed cinematic horror with The Exorcist.
		Based on the novel by William Peter Blatty, and directed by Friedkin on the heels of his Best Director Oscar for The French Connection, The Exorcist caused a sensation with its ultra-creepy effects of diabolical possession.
		Having easily carved its spot in film history, this frightening film was re-released in late 2000 under the title The Exorcist -- The Version You've Never Seen with restored footage, digital enhancements, and a chilling remastering of the film's Oscar-winning sound.
	video.barnesandnoble.com /search/interview.asp?ctr=599175 (1033 words)

	Amazon.ca: To Live And Die In L.A.: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		William Friedkin's crime thriller, based on a book by U.S. Secret Service agent Gerald Petievich, concerns an arrogant Secret Service official who wants to get his man at any price.
		Directed by William Friedkin (The French Connection, The Exorcist), this is a cops & robbers movie where there are no good guys.
		Director William Friedkin, the man who brought us The French Connection and The Exorcist, fell into a bit of a slump after those box office successes.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005JLJW (1318 words)

	Director William Friedkin on THE HUNTED
		Shortly after seeing "The Hunted," film critic and screenwriter F.X. Feeney sat down with director William Friedkin at his office on the Paramount lot.
		It was hard to listen to all the reports without thinking that the culprit might turn out to be like Benicio Del Toro's character in the film, especially since he seemed to have a covert-operative's skill for extracting himself from the crime scenes.
		FRIEDKIN: There are three little girls in the film: that one, the daughter of the woman Aaron loves in secret, who thinks of him as a surrogate father and the little girl that L.T. notices at the airport, playing hide-and-seek, whom he helps.
	movieweb.com /news/news.php?id=719 (3870 words)

	The Hunted (2003): Tommy Lee Jones, Benicio Del Toro, Leslie Stefanson, William Friedkin
		"Friedkin keeps a blissful tension from the first frame to the last, and that makes it a difficult movie to not get caught up in."
		"William Friedkin's newest film is a masterful piece of taut action filmmaking."
		Friedkin sweeps these issues away and coaxes his antagonists to lock horns."
	ofcs.rottentomatoes.com /movie-1120843 (672 words)

	Amazon.com: The Directors - William Friedkin: DVD: Amanda Wise,Richard Davies (II),Pauline Melville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This edition of The Directors is a mixed blessing, but it's refreshing for the candid manner in which William Friedkin assesses his own career.
		Having once aspired to a pro basketball career, Friedkin saw Citizen Kane and was inspired to pursue filmmaking.
		Friedkin may have alienated many of his past collaborators, but this talented filmmaker has clearly mellowed (he's been married since 1991 to studio executive Sherry Lansing), and filmgoers can only hope his considerable talent enjoys a latter-day revival.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004STBV?v=glance (456 words)

	FilmStew.com • William Friedkin Digs Up Skulls
		Some three decades after directing one of the most memorable and scariest psychological horror films of all time, The Exorcist helmer William Friedkin is returning to the genre having been tapped by Paramount Pictures to direct an adaptation of the Robert Silverberg's novel The Book of Skulls.
		"To be writing a psychological horror film for William Friedkin, the man who set the standard in the genre by directing what is considered to be scariest and most viscerally disturbing movie of all time, is more than a writer could hope," Davis said.
		Repped by the William Morris Agency, Friedkin last directed The Hunted.
	www.filmstew.com /Content/Article.asp?ContentID=6439 (299 words)

	TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. - SPECIAL EDITION DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		William Friedkin's To Live and Die in L.A. sprang from the director's mid-eighties preoccupation with music video nihilism, and as such has peaks and valleys depending on the degree of montage a sequence calls for.
		Although To Live and Die in L.A. is based on the fictionalized memoir of a former federal agent (Gerald Petievich, who co-scripted the adaptation with Friedkin), its plot betrays a more intimate knowledge of Hollywood formulae than Secret Service minutiae; ironically, the twist most reflective of the job's grim reality came from Friedkin.
		Chance is a hotheaded G-man installed in Los Angeles whose older, wiser partner Hart (an appropriately sensitive counterpoint to Chance) is, uh-oh, a few days from retirement.
	filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/toliveanddieinla.htm (641 words)

	Moviefone: Movie Celebrities - William Friedkin: MAIN
		One of New Hollywood's most successful wunderkinder in the early '70s, William Friedkin suffered a precipitous fall from the box-office firmament...
		William Friedkin: Works include The Exorcist, 12 Angry Men, Tales...
		The Exorcist, Directed by William Friedkin Writing credits William Peter Blatty (also novel)...
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	The Exorcist (1973) William Peter Blatty, William Friedkin
		The Exorcist (1973) William Peter Blatty, William Friedkin
		Something beyond comprehension is happening to a little girl on this street, in this house.
		There also seems to be some sort of fear of the bad or corrupted child that resonates very much for us.
	www.geocities.com /theexorcist1973 (193 words)

	William Friedkin Movies @ Filmbug (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Movies on DVD with or related to William Friedkin.
		Directed by John Herzfeld, Mick Garris, Ramon Sanchez, Randa Haines, Richard Donner, William Friedkin, Walter Hill, Gary Fleder, Larry Wilson and Peter Hewitt
		Click here for region 2 encoded William Friedkin DVDs (Europe, Japan, Middle East and South Africa).
	www.filmbug.com /db/31552-2 (256 words)

	William Friedkin, Chicago, dir, Exorcist, Cruising, French Connection August 29 in History
		William Friedkin, Chicago, dir, Exorcist, Cruising, French Connection August 29 in History
		William Friedkin, Chicago, dir, Exorcist, Cruising, French Connection
		In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
	www.brainyhistory.com /events/1939/august_29_1939_97686.html (47 words)

	Reel.com Search Results
		William Friedkin has directed the following movies, ordered with the most recent movie first.
		Please click on a title to learn more about it.
		To Live and Die in L.A. Starring: William Petersen, Willem Dafoe
	www.reel.com /filmography.asp?SFor=3&NMID=95108 (106 words)

	AMCTV.com SHOW - To Live and Die in L.A.
		This crime drama from director William Friedkin centers on the efforts of Secret Service agent Richard Chance (William L. Peterson) to track down vicious counterfeiter Rick Masters (Willem Dafoe).
		But as the hunt drags on, Chance's methods become increasingly amoral until the line between good and evil no longer exists.
		Willem Dafoe, Debra Feuer, John Pankow, William L. Peterson, Dean Stockwell, John Turturro
	www.amctv.com /show/detail?CID=60066-1-PST (103 words)

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