In the last month or
so, I’ve not only rescreened William Friedkin’s films Sorcerer (1977) and The
French Connection (1971), but also caught his latest movie, Killer Joe (2011), as well as read his
recently-published autobiography The Friedkin Connection: A Memoir.
An iconoclastic
autodidact, director Friedkin has always been interested in morally
questionable people doing bad things (sometimes with good intentions, sometimes
not) and the consequences of their actions.
It has been several
years since I last saw any of WF’s work, and for some reason (probably raw,
ugly contrarianism), he had fallen out of favor with me. Wow, was I stupid! His
flicks are GREAT!!!!
