Sunday, December 8, 2024
On this day in movie history - The Brink’s Job (1978)
Friday, November 1, 2024
On this day in movie history - To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
To Live and Die in L.A.
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
On this day in movie history - View from the Overlook: Crafting The Shining (2007)
View from the Overlook: Crafting The Shining
Sunday, October 13, 2024
On this day in movie history - Jade (1995)
Jade
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
On this day in movie history - The French Connection (1971)
The French Connection
directed by William Friedkin,
written by Ernest Tidyman,
based on the book by Robin Moore,
was released in the United States on October 9, 1971.
Music by Don Ellis.
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
On this day in movie history - Bug (2006)
Bug
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
Born on this day – William Brinkley:
Thursday, August 29, 2024
Born on this day – William Friedkin:
Credits:
Book:
The Friedkin Connection: A Memoir (2014).
Movies and television:
12 Angry Men (1997); 40 x 15 (2008); A Decade
Under the Influence (2003); A Fuller Life / Segment: My Ballsy Yarns (2013); A
Little Solitaire (2004); A Missed Connection (2018); ABC World News Tonight
with David Muir (2023); Acid Head: The Buzzard Nuts County Slaughter (2011);
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes & Villains (2003); AFI's 100 Years... 100
Movie Quotes: America's Greatest Quips, Comebacks and Catchphrases (2005);
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: 10th Anniversary Edition (2007); AFI's 100 Years...
100 Thrills: America's Most Heart-Pounding Movies (2001); Aida (2015); Algren
(2014); Algren (revised) (2021); American Federale (2013); American Masters
(1998); Anatomy of a Chase (2009); Arbitrage (2012); Barbra Streisand:
Somewhere (1985); Behind the Rules of Engagement (2000); Blue Chips (1994);
Bravo Profiles (2000); Bret Easton Ellis Podcast (2022); Bug (2006); C.A.T.
Squad (1986); C.A.T. Squad: Python Wolf (1988); Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic
(2012); Cinéma par Albert Dupontel (2017); Comme au cinéma (2000); Counterfeit
World: Making 'to Live and Die in L.A.' (2003); Cruising (1980); CSI: Crime
Scene Investigation (2007–2009); Deal of the Century (1983); Ditched (2021);
Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck (2013);
Durch die Nacht mit... (2010); Exorcising Cruising (2007); Face Time
(2002–2003); Fantasy Film Festival (2014); Fasten Your Seatbelt: The Thrilling
Art of Alfred Hitchcock (2009); Fear and Love: The Story of the Exorcist
(2024); Fear in the Dark (1991); Fellini of the Spirits (2020); Filming 'the
Hunted' (2003); Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate (2004);
Frankenheimer in Focus (2009); Friedkin and Grosso Remember: The French
Connection (2009); Friedkin Uncut (2018); Godard Made in USA (2010); Godfather
World (2008); Good Day L.A. (2013); Good Morning America (2023); Good Times
(1967); Great Bolshy Yarblockos! Making 'A Clockwork Orange' (2007); Greatest
Ever Scary Movies (2006–2007); Hardcore Nitzsche: Jack Nitzsche on Film (2017);
Henri Langlois vu par... (2014); Histoires de cinéma (2010); Hollywood
Halloween (1997); Hollywood Insider (2021); Hollywood's Best Film Directors
(2009); Howard Hawks: American Artist (1997); I Am Alfred Hitchcock (2021); In
the Grip of Evil (1997); In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy (2008);
Intimate Portrait (2001); Jade (1995); Jay Sebring.... Cutting to the Truth
(2020); JoBlo Horror Originals (2020); Johnny Hallyday: Ce que je sais (1998);
Just the Facts (2004); Killer Joe (2011); Laura Branigan: Self Control (1984);
Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on the Exorcist (2019); M (1931) / Fritz Lang
Interviewed by William Friedkin (1975); M3/H301 (2020); Magician: The
Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (2014); Making the Boys (2011);
Making the Connection: Untold Stories of 'the French Connection' (2001);
Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of (2012); Miller's Tale
(2011); Minty Comedic Arts (2019); Na plovĂ¡rne (2014); Narc: Shooting Up
(2003); Narc: The Friedkin Connection (2003); North by Northwest: One for the
Ages (2009); Nosferatu vs. Father Pipecock & Sister Funk (2014); Nouvelle
vague vue d'ailleurs (2009); On Tour (2010); Oscars, Actors and The Exorcist
(1974); Paper Moon (1973); Pinter's Party as Told by William Friedkin (2017); Post
Mortem with Mick Garris (2011); Precinct Hollywood (2005); Pro Football: Mayhem
on a Sunday Afternoon (1965); Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of the Master
(2008); Pursuing 'the Hunted' (2003); Putting It Together: The Making of the
Broadway Album (1986); Raising Hell: Filming the Exorcist (2010); Rampage
(1987); Rebel Highway (1994); Reputations (1999); Richard Fleischer,
Storyteller: William Friedkin on 'Violent Saturday' (2013); Rules of Engagement
(2000); Scene of the Crime (2009); Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy
(2005); Shadows of Suspense (2006); Shock Docs (2020); Sonny and Cher Make a
Movie (2018); Sorcerer (1977); Split Screen Personality: William Friedkin on
Richard Fleischer's 'The Boston Strangler' (2013); Standing on the Shoulders of
Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001 (2007); Stanley Kubrick in Focus (2012); Tales from
the Crypt (1992); Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot (2013); Tatort Oper - Wie
Filmemacher Oper machen (2007); Tavis Smiley (2013); TCM Guest Programmer
(2014); TCM Remembers 2023 (2023); The 100 Greatest Films (2001); The 100
Greatest Scary Moments (2003); The 202 Xtra (2019); The 44th Annual Academy
Awards (1972); The 48th Annual Academy Awards (1976); The 49th Annual Academy
Awards (1977); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1965); The Angry Video Game Nerd
(2023); The Big Picture (2018); The Birthday Party (1968); The Bold Men (1965);
The Boys in the Band (1970); The Brink's Job (1978); The Caine Mutiny
Court-Martial (2023); The Chili Con Carne Club (1993); The Cleansing Hour
(2016); The Culture Show (2012); The Cutting Edge (2003); The David Frost Show
(1972); The Day of the Living Dead (2014); The Devil and Father Amorth (2017);
The Directors (1997–2008); The Essentials (2017); The Exorcist (1973); The
Exorcist Confidential (2020); The Exorcist Locations: Georgetown Then and Now
(2010); The Exorcist: Audio Commentary by Director William Friedkin (1998); The
Exorcist: The Version You've Never Seen - Audio Commentary by Director William
Friedkin (2000); The Fear of God: 25 Years of 'The Exorcist' (1998); The French
Connection (1971); The Guardian (1990); The History of Cruising (2007); The
Horror Hall of Fame (1990); The Hour (2011); The Hunted (2003); The Irv
Kupcinet Show (1980); The Lost Print (2022); The Making of the Wonderful Wizard
of Oz (2013); The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
(2007); The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't (2008); The Master's Touch:
Hitchcock's Signature Style (2009); The Merv Griffin Show (1974); The Movies
That Made Me (2019–2023); The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968); The Painter's
Voice (2007); The People vs. Paul Crump (1962); The Pickle Brothers (1967); The
Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection' (2000); The Revenant
Kinder Surprise / Egg Cetera (2015); The Secrets of Dick Smith (1991); The
Shining (1980) / The Visions of Stanley Kubrick (2007); The Simpsons (2017);
The Sound of Hitchcock (2008); The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011); The Thin
Blue Line (1966); The Twilight Zone / Segment: Nightcrawlers, written by Philip
DeGuere, based on the short story by Robert R. McCammon. Season 1. Episode 4.
Episode originally aired: October 18, 1985; The Uttmost (1998); The World Over
Live (2015); This Is Your Life (2002); To Live and Die in L.A. (1985); Victor
Fleming: Master Craftsman (2009); View from the Overlook: Crafting 'the
Shining' (2007); Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001 (2007); Wang
Chung: To Live and Die in L.A. (1985); Welcome to the Basement (2016); Without
Limits (1998); WTF with Marc Maron (2016).
Saturday, August 17, 2024
On this day in movie history - 12 Angry Men (1997)
directed by William Friedkin,