The Film's of William Friedkin: Discussion & Analysis

[AbelTim]

This is William Friedkin's directorial debut, up on YouTube. Quality is a bit ropey.



Again on YouTube, the full movie of The Birthday Party.



Trailer for The Night They Raided Minsky's



Trailer for The Boys in the Band



Trailer for The French Connection



Previously banned trailer for The Exorcist



Trailer for Sorcerer



Trailer for The Brink's Job



Trailer for Cruising



Trailer for Deal of the Century



Trailer for To Live and Die in L.A.



Trailer for Rampage



Trailer for The Guardian



Trailer for Blue Chips



Trailer for Jade



Trailer for Rules of Engagement



Trailer for The Hunted



Trailer for Bug



Trailer for Killer Joe



Trailer for The Devil and Father Amorth

 

[no country for old wainds]

stepping on CiG's turf there bro, the rest of us stick to a 3 youtubes per post maximum so he can feel useful

 

[CiG]

Pretty passive-aggressive. Is it your time of the month cuntface?

 

[no country for old wainds]

nah i'm just trolling lmao, i love your trailer dumps

 

[CiG]

I haven't done one of those in ages, cheers for the reminder. You probably didn't notice because you have him ignored but the last dump was by Blurry. There were multiple trailers for the same movies and half the trailers were those shitty fan-made "concept" trailers lol.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i saw your response to that and clicked it out of curiosity. a horrifyingly brain-breakingly shit post, i expect no less from that demented fucktard.

yikes, maybe it is my time of the month

 

[CiG]

Throw on a romcom (from 2002) and calm down.

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

i know bug has a cult following these days, since nobody’s mentioned it. @Oblivious Maximus could probably elaborate on that since i haven’t seen it.

Funnily enough Freidkin himself recently tweeted out a new article celebrating Bug. More and more of the sort keep popping up which is a great thing, of course. Judd and Shannon are fucking molten. Amazing movie.

i didn't even realise he’s been making movies since the early ‘60s, can anyone shed any light on the pre-sorcerer stuff?

The Birthday Party is excellent. Pinter even wrote the screenplay.

 

[no country for old wainds]

Throw on a romcom (from 2002) and calm down.

there are multiple romcoms on my list as things stand!

 

[CiG]

I'm assuming Punch-Drunk Love is one of them but I have no idea what else.

 

[AbelTim]

Funnily enough Freidkin himself recently tweeted out a new article celebrating Bug. More and more of the sort keep popping up which is a great thing, of course. Judd and Shannon are fucking molten. Amazing movie.


The Birthday Party is excellent. Pinter even wrote the screenplay.

That was a great article. I need to see that film ASAP!

 

[Anom@nder Rake]

I know To Live and Die in LA has a cult following but I find it cheesy as hell.

It's been a few years since I've seen it, but I thought the same. It seemed like the perfect film to base parody off of.

 

[CiG]

It's 80's as fuck. Hits on common tropes of the period like buddy cop, femme fatale, sleazy villain, car chases, scorching new wave soundtrack. Sits comfortably alongside stuff like Nighthawks and Cobra. It might be cheesy but it's the best kind of cheese.

 

[AbelTim]

What do you people think of Cruising? It got a lot of hate when it was being filmed and when released from the gay community at the time. I think the mainstream gay community at the time mistakenly thought that the film was perpetuating negative stereotypes. The fact is, the leather club scenes were filmed in actual clubs.
Wiki quote - "The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) originally gave Cruising an X rating. Friedkin claims he took the film before the MPAA board "50 times" at a cost of $50,000 and deleted 40 minutes of footage from the original cut before he secured an R rating. The deleted footage, according to Friedkin, consisted entirely of footage from the clubs in which portions of the film were shot and consisted of "[a]bsolutely graphic sexuality...that material showed the most graphic homosexuality with Pacino watching, and with the intimation that he may have been participating."
It is based on a serial murder case at the time - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bateson. This guy was a suspect in a series of murders. The whole saga is pretty murky.

 

[CiG]

Earlier today I watched Bug which was pretty good, and I just finished watching Killer Joe which was fucking amazing. Matthew McConaughey was a complete fucking maniac. Damn what a good movie!

 

[no country for old wainds]

please do more of these kinds of threads abeltim, good to get more movie discussion around here!

(preferably in the social forum next time though)

 

[AbelTim]

please do more of these kinds of threads abeltim, good to get more movie discussion around here!

(preferably in the social forum next time though)

Will do. Probably do one for Pasolini or Noe.

 

[no country for old wainds]

noe is probably more relevant right now with the 2002 poll being open.

 

[CiG]

Is Rules of Engagement any good?

 

[AbelTim]

Is Rules of Engagement any good?

I liked it. A solid military courtroom drama. Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson are solid in it.