... you can learn from:
To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
Rick: How you making it?Carl: Like every other swinging dick in thisplace makes it. Day by motherfucking day.
The great director William Friedkin had died at the age of 87 years young, and that sucks. At least IMDb is telling me he'd completely a movie called The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial starring Kiefer Sutherland, Jason Clarke, and Jake Lacy (as well as Lance Reddick, who died back in March -- cursed movie!) so we'll get to see one more movie from the film-maker behind several of my favorite masterpieces. I could've quoted a quote from The Exorcist, from Cruising, from The Boys in the Band, from Sorcerer, from Bug, from The French Connection, but I chose to quote one of his movies that I've never seen before instead to remind myself that even though he's gone he's left behind plenty to savor. And I don't want to say that David Gordon Green making a new Exorcist movie is probably what killed him, but...
In all seriousness you could spend an entire weekend programming Friedkin movies and have one of the greatest weekends of you life. I can't believe I only saw Sorcerer for the first time during the first few months of the pandemic -- it's a movie I think about like once a week now. He was in the business of crafting images that would never let you go. And so he remains.
Oh well SHIT I was working on something (funny enough a piece that mentions William Friedkin) only to came back and see the news that we've lost him. WHAT A MOVIE-MAKER! pic.twitter.com/qG1nke6aTy
— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) August 7, 2023
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I can definitely see Kiefer in the very iconic Bogart role in that Caine remake.
Very sad news. I can't honestly say I loved every one of his films that I've seen but when he was on his game his work was monumental.
Glad you mentioned Sorcerer! I went to see it when it first came out, in a nearly empty movie theatre, and LOVED it. It was taut and kept me in its thrall from beginning to end. I never could understand why it didn't do better. It's been gratifying to see a reassessment of it over the years.
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