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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2      General Discussion: RIP William Friedkin     1 2    NEXT   LAST   Last Post   Posted:   Aug 7, 2023 - 11:40 AM     By:   gyorgyL   (Member) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Friedkin    Posted:   Aug 7, 2023 - 11:50 AM     By:   Amer Zahid   (Member) What an awful month for celebrities. Ugh. RIP to one of the great auteur filmmakers of our times.    Posted:   Aug 7, 2023 - 11:58 AM     By:   La La Land Records   (Member) An amazing filmmaker and an all around cool, intense intelligent artist. If you already haven't done so, check out Friedkin Uncut. A great documentary about the man and the myths. MV    Posted:   Aug 7, 2023 - 1:09 PM     By:   Nicolai P. Zwar   (Member) Oh, wow, R.I.P.... He made some excellent films and some classics. Talented, opinionated and interesting personality. We shared birthdays.    Posted:   Aug 7, 2023 - 1:12 PM     By:   PollyAnna   (Member) So sad. He was a real maverick film maker. One of a kind. I could listen to his interviews for hours on end. His enthusiasm for film and the making thereof was beyond limit.    Posted:   Aug 7, 2023 - 2:21 PM     By:   ghost of 82   (Member) Made some genuine classics, French Connection my favourite. Just extraordinary. Looking forward to watching The Exorcist in 4K when that disc comes out in a few months. Sad news indeed.    Posted:   Aug 7, 2023 - 3:16 PM     By:   Spinmeister   (Member) So what have I seen of his? The Guardian: from what I remember, just dreadful. Cruising: Pacino is either perfect as a guy crawling in his own skin or he's so completely unconvincing it's laughable. The film itself: lurid and aggressively unsexy. Sorcerer: been over 40 years; no lasting memory other than Tangerine Dreams' score. The Exorcist: seminal horror film with many memorable moments… that I mostly laugh at now. The French Connection: been over 40 years; don't rememeber a jot of it. The Boys in the Band: engaging ensemble piece boasting some very good performances and some very OTT performances; all in all, very much of its time.    Posted:   Aug 7, 2023 - 3:42 PM     By:   NO NAME   (Member) The way he treated Lalo Schriin, i would say i don't really care...    Posted:   Aug 7, 2023 - 4:28 PM     By:   Last Child   (Member) The way he treated Lalo Schriin, i would say i don't really care... Not to mention how he treated some of the cast in EXORCIST.... Nevertheless, he could have retired after THE FRENCH CONNECTION as a movie making legend.    Posted:   Aug 7, 2023 - 5:23 PM     By:   podres185   (Member) Without question, Friedkin was a great filmmaker. As for his use of music, and the composers who wrote for his films ... I recall Elmer Bernstein devoting much of one of his FMC bulletins to critiquing Friedkin's actions vis-a-vis Lalo Schrifin's efforts on "The Exorcist." I can also remember a little joke Ernest Gold once shared ... it involved a psychiatrist who died and went to heaven, where St. Peter was glad to welcome him at the pearly gates. "I'm so glad you could come at this time," he told the psychiatrist. "I'd appreciate it if you could have a talk with God." "Why?" asked the psychiatrist. "Well," St. Peter replied, "He's been acting like he thinks he's William Friedkin!"    Posted:   Aug 8, 2023 - 1:47 AM     By:   Rare Scores   (Member) So what have I seen of his? The Guardian: from what I remember, just dreadful. Cruising: Pacino is either perfect as a guy crawling in his own skin or he's so completely unconvincing it's laughable. The film itself: lurid and aggressively unsexy. Sorcerer: been over 40 years; no lasting memory other than Tangerine Dreams' score. The Exorcist: seminal horror film with many memorable moments… that I mostly laugh at now. The French Connection: been over 40 years; don't rememeber a jot of it. The Boys in the Band: engaging ensemble piece boasting some very good performances and some very OTT performances; all in all, very much of its time. If you've no connection with his work, why are you bothering to post?    Posted:   Aug 8, 2023 - 1:49 AM     By:   Hurdy Gurdy   (Member) Maybe they like to turn up at funerals and diss the departed?    Posted:   Aug 8, 2023 - 2:50 AM     By:   moolik   (Member) Laughing at THE EXORCIST ????I'm sorry its still the best Horror movie ever made. Whats laughable about it?    Posted:   Aug 8, 2023 - 6:03 AM     By:   MusicMad   (Member) If you've no connection with his work, why are you bothering to post? Because if nobody criticised anything - or offered an alternative view - then the forum would consist of nothing but superb, brilliant, one-of-a-kind, unbeatable ... et al. films, film-makers and/or scores. I knew his name but beyond the obvious ones (The French Connection and The Exorcist) couldn't think of another he'd helmed, so checked IMDb. Perhaps superfluous to add: he didn't direct any film I rate highly.    Posted:   Aug 8, 2023 - 6:15 AM     By:   MusicMad   (Member) Laughing at THE EXORCIST ????I'm sorry its still the best Horror movie ever made. Whats laughable about it? I saw it on its UK release (aged 16/7) and found it tedious, certainly not frightening, with only the early scene of Ellen Burstyn going into the loft with a candle being the sole jump in your seat scene. I've not watched it since. I do recall, that evening, watching an early 1960's horror which featured decapitated heads moving - much more scary. And I will posit that Angel Heart (1987) - not necessarily a great film - is a far more effective horror movie. Just an alternative view ...    Posted:   Aug 8, 2023 - 6:20 AM     By:   nuts_score   (Member) It's telling that you don't even remember the name of the movie you found "much more scary" than The Exorcist.    Posted:   Aug 8, 2023 - 6:26 AM     By:   MusicMad   (Member) It's telling that you don't even remember the name of the movie you found "much more scary" than The Exorcist. It was The Frozen Dead (1966) - slightly newer than I'd thought, but that was 50 years ago    Posted:   Aug 8, 2023 - 6:57 AM     By:   nuts_score   (Member) I've never seen it, so with your memory that it bests The Exorcist puts it on my radar.    Posted:   Aug 8, 2023 - 7:49 AM     By:   Tall Guy   (Member) I haven’t seen a lot of his work, but of what I have seen, The French Connection is way out ahead of the rest. Condolences to family, friends and fans.    Posted:   Aug 8, 2023 - 8:56 AM     By:   Hurdy Gurdy   (Member) I've got no problem with the critical views per se, just that it's a bit crass and insensitive in a R.I.P thread.     General Discussion: RIP William Friedkin    < 1 2  > >>  Go to page:  1 2   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2

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