William friedkin sat down with us to speak about cruising, and other cinematic ruminations. Aug 06, 2015 related story william friedkin to direct don winslow novel the winter of frankie machine deadline. The pph interview william friedkin permanent plastic helmet. Cruising william friedkin, al pacino 1980 dvd new region. Cruising is a 1980 american erotic crime thriller movie written and directed by william friedkin and starring al pacino, paul sorvino, and karen allen. Individual friedkin films may conform more or less to this description depending on the circumstances of their production, but in the freest ones and cruising is the freest film friedkin ever made the creation of meaning through montage is foregrounded as it is in the work of only a few american directors, most notably joe dante, who. Filmmaker william friedkins film cruising was initially maligned, but has.
Cruising, based on a book inspired by a series of murders that would in later years be termed hate crimes, is a film that had to answer for a lot of unfair expectations. And he said there were details in these books that were only available to the police at the time, and the murderer. William friedkin on real exorcisms and the exorcist. Red herrings are one thing, but writerdirector william friedkins script is so full of holes, ambiguity, and misdirection that it confounds any sort of literal interpretation. People on the streets did their part by blasting air horns and whistles.
This book is your ultimate resource for william friedkin. Cautionary tales have rarely taken such an amazing artistic form. He may be best known for his film the exorcist 1973, one of the most terrifying films of all time. It stars joe spinell as frank zito, an italianamerican serial killer residing in new york city who murders and scalps younger women. Jul 01, 2012 the pph interview william friedkin leave a reply in a recent interview, permanent plastic helmet found the charismatic director of classics like the exorcist and the french connection and brilliant new thriller killer joe in a playful but outspoken mood.
If anyone wants to buy the book, go online and look up the author gerald walker. Buy this book ever want to know how they shot that amazing subwaycar. Todays executives and filmmakers say they revere the 70s, but they are under pressure for. Why did you pick the specific punk groups on the soundtrack. William friedkin biography, movie highlights and photos. He knew that most of the material would be cut, even when he was shooting it. William friedkin s favorite films of all time duration. Academy awardwinning director william friedkin, long recognised for his technical brilliance, has had a career marked by extreme successes and failures. Red herrings are one thing, but writerdirector william friedkin s script is so full of holes, ambiguity, and misdirection that it confounds any sort of literal interpretation. Filmmaker william friedkin s film cruising was initially maligned, but has taken on a cult status, due in no small part to his punk soundtrack, which was recently reissued. Tra di esse merita particolare attenzione cruising 1980, opera maledetta per lungo tempo invisibile a parte alcuni rari passaggi televisivi notturni.
Beginning his career in documentaries in the early 1960s, he is perhaps best known for directing the action thriller film the french connection 1971 and the supernatural horror film the. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about william friedkins early life, career and personal life right. I think one reason the film works so much better now than it did in. His father was a merchant seaman, semipro softball player and ultimately sold clothes in a mens discount chain. You dont know a damn thing, and neither do i charles bramesco the exorcist director returns to his demonic roots with a new documentary, but hes not interested in.
Golden raspberry award for worst screenplay wikipedia. Director william friedkin on the soundtrack to cruising. Nov 25, 2007 waxworks cruising original motion picture soundtrack and score features the complete music recorded for the film pressed to 180 gram blue, black, and white colored vinyl, a 12x12 booklet featuring an exclusive essay by director william friedkin on the intense making of the film and creation of its music, album design and layout by. Academy awardwinner william friedkin the exorcist, the french connection directs al pacino as an undercover cop pitched into new york s seedy underbelly in cruising available for the first time on bluray in a brand new directorapproved transfer. William friedkins exorcism documentary is pretty much a. Friedkin has hair touched with gray, and his trademark glasses are a bit bigger than they used to be, but the famous friedkin intensity his hollywood nickname was hurricane billy seems almost undiminished. Apr 18, 20 for over 50 years director william friedkin has had his share of highs and lows. Aug 22, 2012 james franco has sortofremade william friedkins cruising for an art project. History of the three incarnations of pan am travel and holiday.
He explains why, when making good times 1967 with sonny and cher, he did not portray the couples. Chief among those is the burden of being one of the first major studio pictures to present gay sexuality on the screen as opposed to the more innocuous gay identities of the boys in the band. The event was held at the california theatre in berkeley, ca, and. For fans of al pacino william friedkin police proceedurals ny based thrillers original,thought provoking filmskevin g shinnick. It is loosely based on the novel of the same name by new york times reporter gerald walker about a serial killer targeting gay men, particularly those men associated with the leather scene in the late 1970s. William friedkin s cruising 1980 was based on a 1970 novel by gerald walker, a new york times editor actually the cultural editor of the new york times magazinejmv, gerald walker, that portrayed the process by which a new york city policemen, assigned. William friedkin s cruising 1980 was based on a 1970 novel by gerald walker, a new york times editor actually the cultural editor of the new york times magazinejmv, gerald walker, that portrayed the process by which a new york city policemen, assigned to capture a psychotic killer of gay men, becomes aware of his own homosexuality.
Cruising 1980 il film maledetto di william friedkin e. Such is the case with william friedkin s underrated 1980 film cruising. He wanted to know what the missing footage from cruising was, and i. New york city detective steve burns al pacino receives orders from captain edelson paul sorvino to solve a series of brutal. Quotes on cruising 1980 its just a murder mystery, with the gay leather scene as a backdrop. William friedkin s gay serial killer film is a riddle without an answer.
William friedkins cruising bright lights film journal. The exorcists william friedkin on his memoir, james francos new. At the time i made the film the exorcist, i had never seen an exorcism, notes director william friedkin at the start of the devil and father amorth, a justbarely featurelength documentary. One of new hollywoods most successful wunderkinder in the early 70s, william friedkin suffered a precipitous fall from the boxoffice firmament in the late 70s, punctuated by the controversial cop film cruising 1980. It does not compare to the book, which i would highly recommend. William friedkin 171 success facts everything you need to.
As a gritty fever dream about masculinity and sexual anxiety, however, this dank, dark, unpleasant picture is memorable indeed. Seemingly innocent comedies like the sonny and cher vehicle good. The film is a very loose adaptation of gerard walkers novel, but a. However, when friedkin began putting together a dvd for cruising in 2007, he conducted a search for the missing footage that proved fruitless, and afterwards, when he heard from someone claiming to know where the footage was, he decided against pursuing it. The themes that kept resurfacing throughout were his fearlessness and determination to bring his work to fruition. In an age of superhero franchises, cruising is a film that no major studio would even consider creating, making it all the more unique and worth seeking out. Your eye scans the page from left to right, and you scan until gradually the words disappear and become thoughts, images and real dialogue. Friedkin is aware of this unfair, simplistic perceptionone chapter of his memoir the friedkin connection, addressing his postexorcist decline into bigbudget failures, is titled hubris. When william friedkin was doing research for his controversial film cruising, he showed up on jockstrap. The film starred al pacino and was directed by william friedkin. Friedkin did a directors commentary track for the dvd. And he knows which of his titles most readers will want to hear about.
Cruising by william friedkin al pacino, paul sorvino, karen allen. Cruising, based on a book inspired by a series of murders that would in later years be classified as hate crimes, had to answer for a lot of unfair expectations. One of new hollywoods most successful wunderkinder in the early 70s, william friedkin suffered a precipitous fall from the boxoffice firmament in the late 70s, punctuated by the controversial cop film cruising. Friedkin connection, the william friedkin, napoleon ryan on. They did that in part so the perp would lose credibility when trying to complain about the detectives behavior. Reconsidering friedkins cruising movies get lost, overlooked, and forgotten all the time, but how many actually go into exile. The friedkin connection a memoir by william friedkin the new. Your screenplay for cruising was actually inspired by several different sources, correct. The friedkin connection a memoir by william friedkin. A memoir and millions of other books are available for amazon kindle. Starting from a classic undercover premise pacino descends into manhattans sm gay underworld to track a psychopathic killer, and opening with some powerful moments, cruising soon drifts into.
Director william friedkin on the soundtrack to cruising vulture. If friedkin had tested the mettle of the general public and the mpaa with the crucifixaspreteensextoy shenanigans of the exorcist in 1973, he pushed his luck too far with cruising. It would be difficult to describe william friedkin as being in rare form last week when he presented a double bill of sorcerer and cruising to a soldout house at the. And i assured him it would not be piracy if we did it. But i was a different person then, really, he insisted. William friedkins cruising first appears in the quad cinemas exhaustive. The exorcists william friedkin on his memoir, james francos new film and.
It is loosely based on the novel of the same name by new york times. Among his successes are the two highly popular and highly regarded films, the french connection and the exorcist, both now considered classics of their respective genres. William friedkin s career is a study in contradictions. William friedkin biography list of works, study guides. It would be difficult to describe william friedkin as being in rare form last week when he presented a double bill of sorcerer and cruising to a soldout house at the aero theatre in santa monica last week since his appearance was part of the promotional tour for autobiography the friedkin connection in which his gregarious personality shines through. William friedkin, the legendary, academy awardwinning film director, in the last decade, has become a critically acclaimed director of opera. The razzie award for worst screenplay is an award presented at the annual golden raspberry awards for the worst film screenplay of the past year. William friedkin has made nineteen features so far, and more than a. Read william friedkin 171 success facts everything you need to know about william friedkin by randy gay available from rakuten kobo. The novel is about an undercover policeman looking for a homosexual serial killer in the gay new york city of 1970 before sm and leather subcultures became well known they existed but not to the extent they were portrayed in the film. It is loosely based on the novel of the same name by new york times reporter gerald walker about a serial killer targeting gay men. Cruising is a novel written by new york times reporter gerald walker and published in 1970. Presenting the impresario of the deviant demimonde.
Regole donore 2000 di william friedkin mnirece richiesta da lorenzo rigamonti federico frusciante. While reading his new book the friedkin connection a memoir, i found myself riveted as if it were a pulp adventure story. A injusta cruzada contra cruising porcos, elefantes e doninhas. You dont need to know about my sexual liaisons william friedkin, director of the french connection and the exorcist, has led a life as actionpacked as his films. William friedkin s 1980 murder mystery cruising is one of. I was offered the book cruising by gerald walker to direct as a film, by phil dantoni, who had produced the french connection. Sep 21, 2017 in the devil and father amorth, director william friedkin, still hale and hearty and hectoring at the age of 81, returns to the subject of his most legendary film, the exorcist. When william friedkin was doing research for his controversial film cruising, he showed up on jockstrap night at the mine shaft, the famed gay bar in manhattan, dressed for the occasion. Cruising has a special niche in gay history as the queer equivalent of birth of a nation a film in which an artist outside a subculture creates what appears to be a disturbingly negative, illinformed portrait of that subculture. Cruising for sex is alluded to in songs similar to cruisin the streets by the boys city gang as well as i am a cruiser by the village individuals, on the album titled cruisin in 1980, director william friedkin made the film cruising, starring al pacino the movie introduced many audiences to gay actions and the linguistic. Di simone mentions his wife leaving him and moving down to florida with their young daughter to live with his wifes sister. The screenplay by tracy letts is based on his 1996 play of the same name in which a woman holed up in a rural oklahoma motel becomes involved with a paranoid man who suffers from delusional parasitosis and is obsessed with. It received 10 academy award nominations including best director and best picture.
Cruising is a 1980 american erotic crime thriller film written and directed by william friedkin and starring al pacino, paul sorvino, and karen allen. Neither of these facets are part of the plot of the novel. Cruising by william friedkin al pacino, paul sorvino. Here you will find the most uptodate 171 success facts, information, and much more. Russo deals with the book, cruising, as well as the movie, in the celluloid closet. William friedkins cruising 1980 was based on a 1970 novel by gerald walker, a new york times editor actually the cultural editor of the new york times magazinejmv, gerald walker, that portrayed the process by which a new york city policemen, assigned to capture a psychotic killer of gay men, becomes aware of his own homosexuality, and commences murdering gays.
The following is a list of nominees and recipients of that award, including each screenplays authors. William friedkin deliberately kept her in the dark, since her character nancy wasnt supposed to be aware of what was happening to steve as he explored the gay underworld. A liberal intellectual by nature who made two of the most notorious works of queer cinema the boys in the band 1970 and cruising 1980 hes long been one of the gay communitys demons. Cruising is a interesting and thoughtprovoking movie.
The exorcist is the most profitable horror movie of all time, and possibly one of the most disturbing. Less a police procedural than a queasy psychodrama set against the backdrop of new york citys leather scene, cruising simply doesnt function very well as a mystery. William friedkin on the controversial legacies of the boys in the band and cruising. If a book was indicating a pattern of dialogue that kept repeating itself in a boring way youd put the book down. Why marlon brando refused the best actor oscar for the godfather duration.
Cruising by william friedkin al pacino, paul sorvino, karen. William friedkin is an american film director, producer and screenwriter best known for directing the french connection in 1971 and the exorcist in 1973. Cruising full movie 1980 lets join, fullhd moviesseasonepisode here. I was offered the book cruising by gerald walker to direct. Al pacino, paul sorvino, karen allen, richard cox, don scardino, william friedkin. Unlike other film schooleducated filmmakers of the directors era, friedkin got his start as a mailroom clerk at a local tv station and worked his way up to becoming a fullblown hollywood filmmaker by his thirties.
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