#friedkin uncut

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Friedkin Uncut (Francesco Zippel, 2018):

[may8chan]

Friedkin Uncut - Francesco Zippel 2018

[haverwood]

Friedkin Uncut Francesco Zippel Italy, 2018 ★★★

[oldmanpeace]

My favorite movie from each year, 1960+.

1960. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock) 1961. Breakfast At Tiffany's (Blake Edwards) 1962. Cleo from 5 to 7 (Agnés Varda) 1963. 8½ (Federico Fellini) 1964. Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick) 1965. Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard) 1966. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone) 1967. The Fearless Vampire Killers (Roman Polanski) 1968. Bullitt (Peter Yates) 1969. Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper) 1970. Kelly's Heroes (Brian G. Hutton) 1971. Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby) 1972. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola) 1973. Badlands (Terrence Malick) 1974. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Sam Peckinpah) 1975. Jaws (Steven Spielberg) 1976. The Bad News Bears (Michael Ritchie) 1977. Smokey and the Bandit (Hal Needham) 1978. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick) 1979. Alien (Ridley Scott) 1980. Dressed To Kill (Brian De Palma) 1981. Thief (Michael Mann) 1982. Diner (Barry Levinson) 1983. Scarface (Brian De Palma) 1984. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders) 1985. To Live and Die in L.A. (William Friedkin) 1986. Hoosiers (David Anspaugh) 1987. Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick) 1988. Big (Penny Marshall) 1989. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee) 1990. Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese) 1991. JFK (Oliver Stone) 1992. Scent of a Woman (Martin Brest) 1993. Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater) 1994. The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont) 1995. Heat (Michael Mann) 1996. A Time to Kill (Joel Schumacher) 1997. Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki) 1998. Fucking Åmål (Lucas Moodysson) 1999. Fight Club (David Fincher) 2000. High Fidelity (Stephen Frears) 2001. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson) 2002. Spider-Man (Sam Raimi) 2003. The Station Agent (Tom McCarthy) 2004. Sideways (Alexander Payne) 2005. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (Shane Black) 2006. Volver (Pedro Almodóvar) 2007. Into the Wild (Sean Penn) 2008. In Bruges (Martin McDonagh) 2009. Up in the Air (Jason Reitman) 2010. Hesher (Spencer Susser) 2011. Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn) 2012. Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow) 2013. Nebraska (Alexander Payne) 2014. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson) 2015. Sicario (Denis Villeneuve) 2016. Hell or High Water (David Mackenzie) 2017. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonagh) 2018. Manbiki kazoku (Hirokazu Koreeda) 2019. Uncut Gems (Benny & Josh Safdie) 2020. Nomadland (Chloé Zhao) 2021. Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson) 2022. The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh) 2023. The Holdovers (Alexander Payne)

[citizenscreen]

#TCM honors William Friedkin tonight starting with Francesco Zippel’s 2018 documentary, FRIEDKIN UNCUT. Can’t wait!

[bollywoodisforlovers]

Netflix and Dil: Angry Young Men, Angrier Young Viewers

We checked out the latest talking heads documentary about Bollywood cinema, Namrata Rao's Angry Young Men. Did we learn anything?

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[fatalism-and-villainy]

My favourite films that I watched for the first time in 2023:

Eraserhead (David Lynch, 1977) Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog, 2005) The Insider (Michael Mann, 1999) Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Paul Schrader, 1985) The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955) Suspiria (Dario Argente, 1977) To Live and Die in L. A. (William Friedkin, 1985) Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (David Lynch, 1992) Uncut Gems (Safdie brothers, 2019) 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)

Runners up:

Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet, 2023) Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975) Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas, 2014) Cutter’s Way (Ivan Passer, 1981) Good Time (Safdie Brothers, 2017) Inland Empire (David Lynch, 2006) Inside Man (Spike Lee, 2006) Insomnia (Christopher Nolan, 2002) Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan, 2023) Past Lives (Celine Song, 2023) Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)

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Friedkin Uncut

I am, perhaps, not the most receptive audience for a documentary about William Friedkin. I find his films technically accomplished and often quite stirring but ultimately empty. So, watching him speak with no filters as the filmmakers cut to adoring, sometimes perceptive comments by people who’ve worked with him and young directors influenced by him can be a bit of a chore.

Francesco Zippel’s FRIEDKIN UNCUT (2018, TCM, Hulu) jumps all over the place. It starts with THE EXORCIST (1973) and then uses one statement about his being raised as a Jew to move to Friedkin’s childhood. After mentioning his first film — the documentary THE PEOPLE VS. PAUL CRUMP (1962), which helped get its subject off death row — it bypasses his early fiction films to focus on just six features. That’s a pity, as his GOOD TIMES (1967) and THE BIRTHDAY PARTY (1968) are hard to find. The rest of the organization is rather haphazard. It’s not completely chronological. Zippel cuts to whatever the conversation brings up. But he doesn’t explore a lot of the topics very fully. And there are an awful lot of shots that seem there just to break things up. Do we really need to see a cigarette being lit as former detective Randy Jurgensen mentions the stunt driver’s smoking before filming the chase in THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971) or shots of a book’s pages being rifled when they talk about THE EXORCIST? There are also lots of sequences of Friedkin’s attending festival tributes without much in the way of context. And for all the adulation, the only interview subjects to bring any real joy to the table are Quentin Tarantino, Willem Dafoe and Ellen Burstyn (if you could bottle the spirit she radiates, you’d make a fortune).

So, what do we learn about Friedkin? He thinks “rehearsals are for sissies.” He prefers to get a scene on the first take, even if there are technical issues. The only one of his films of which he thinks highly is SORCEROR (1977). And he never thinks of politics when he’s making a film. That latter, I think, says a lot about his work. I’m not suggesting he should find himself hobbled by political concerns, but maybe thinking of the ramifications of his plots might, I don’t know, deepen them a bit. It says a lot about the documentary that only one commentator, critic Samuel Blumenfeld, calls him on that statement. But then Blumenfeld also calls THE FRENCH CONNECTION and CRUISING (1980), two of Friedkin’s most tone-deaf films, the defining movies of their decade. YMMV, as we say on the net, and in my case it Vs with a vengeance.

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Friedkin Uncut (Sub Esp)

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Friedkin Uncut (2018)

Friedkin is a glorious weirdo and maybe a little bit of a genius. He increasing both sounded and talked like Trump in his later life, which makes this a wild ride when he says things like "I don't admire Hitler at all."

[fallimentiquotidiani]

Qualcuno mi aveva consigliato di vedere il giardino zen, ho pensato: "Ma che diamine è il giardino zen?".

Ci sono andato, lì c'è un giardino in cui il terreno è fatto di sabbia pettinata, sulla sabbia ci sono dei sassi, i sassi sono collocati in maniera sparsa su questo tappeto di sabbia.

Ci sono delle panchine intorno dove ti puoi sedere e restare a contemplare il giardino zen.

Io mi sono seduto lì, ci saranno state solo venti persone, erano tutte in silenzio, ho pensato: "ma che cos'è? è un mucchio di sassi adagiati su un tappeto di sabbia".

Però, ti lascia andare a questi pensieri, e succede che guardi questo posto cercando di capire quale sia l'attrazione.

Perché è così famoso? Nessuno sa quando siano stati collocati i sassi né da chi.

I pensieri iniziano a pervaderti la mente, e all'improvviso ti rendi conto che quei sassi sono come continenti separati, che non si toccheranno mai, resteranno sempre separati tra di loro, come i continenti sulla terra.

E poi, inizi a realizzare che sono come le persone, famiglie che vivono sole, e poi passi a pensare che questa è la natura umana: che siamo tutti soli qui.

Non importa quanto siamo vicini a famigliari e amici, ci ritroviamo in questo mondo completamente da soli.

Mi fa effetto ancora adesso, mi basta il semplice rievocarlo, mi sarà bastato un quarto d'ora per scoppiare a piangere.

Le lacrime hanno iniziato a scendermi sulle guance, ero profondamente commosso da un'immagine semplice che rappresentava la lontananza che tutti noi sperimentiamo rispetto agli altri.

Mi commuove ancora oggi, non dimenticherò mai l'esperienza a Kyoto e mi agita l'idea di riviverla.

Sono passati forse quarant'anni, ma non passa un solo giorno senza che io riviva quell'esperienza.

Sono stato in giro per il mondo, ma per me l'abbellimento resta quel giardino zen: un giardino con nient'altro che sabbia e sassi.

William Friedkin, Friedkin Uncut

[sesiondemadrugada]

Friedkin Uncut (Francesco Zippel, 2018).

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Friedkin Uncut (2018)

[thefilmstage]

William Friedkin explores his career in the first trailer for Friedkin Uncut.

[power-chords]

Adam: Friedkin Uncut? Makes it sound like he’s not circumcised.

Me: I GUARANTEE you he is circumcised.

[brokehorrorfan]

The Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection will be released on September 8 via Universal Pictures. The 4K Ultra HD (with Blu-ray and Digital) box set collects four films directed by the Master of Suspense: Rear Window, Vertigo, Psycho, and The Birds.

1954's Rear Window is a mystery thriller written by John Michael Hayes (To Catch a Thief), based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story "It Had to Be Murder. James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, and Raymond Burr star.

1958's Vertigo is a psychological thriller written by Alec Coppel (No Highway in the Sky) and Samuel A. Taylor (Sabrina), based on Boileau-Narcejac's 1954 novel The Living and the Dead. James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, and Henry Jones star.

1960's Psycho is a horror-thriller film written by Joseph Stefano (The Outer Limits), based on Robert Bloch's 1959 novel of the same name. Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, John McIntire, and Janet Leigh star.

1963's The Birds is a horror-thriller film written by Evan Hunter (High and Low), based on Daphne du Maurier’s 1952 short story of the same name. Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, and Veronica Cartwright star.

The box set features Discbook packaging. Notably, it includes the original, uncut version of Psycho for the first time since its theatrical debut, in addition to the standard version. A full list of extras is below.

Rear Window special features:

Audio commentary by Hitchcock's Rear Window: The Well-Made Film author John Fawell

Rear Window Ethics - 2000 documentary

Conversation with Screenwriter John Michael Hayes

Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of The Master

Breaking Barriers: The Sound of Hitchcock

Masters of Cinema

Hitchcock/Truffaut - Audio recording from filmmaker François Truffaut’s in-depth interview with director Alfred Hitchcock about Rear Window

Production photo gallery

Theatrical trailer

Re-release trailer narrated by James Stewart

A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.

Vertigo special features:

Audio commentary by filmmaker William Friedkin (The Exorcist)

Obsessed with Vertigo: New Life for Hitchcock's Masterpiece

Partners In Crime: Hitchcock's Collaborators

Saul Bass: Title Champ

Edith Head: Dressing the Master's Movies

Bernard Herrmann: Hitchcock's Maestro

Alma: The Master's Muse

Foreign censorship ending

100 Years of Universal: The Lew Wasserman Era

Hitchcock/Truffaut - Audio recording from filmmaker François Truffaut’s in-depth interview with director Alfred Hitchcock about Vertigo

Theatrical trailer

Restoration theatrical trailer

A former police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with a hauntingly beautiful woman.

Psycho special features:

Original uncut and standard re-releases version of the film

The Making of Psycho

The Making of Psycho audio commentary with Alfred Hitchcock and The Making of Psycho author Stephen Rebello

Psycho Sound

In The Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy

Newsreel Footage: The Release of Psycho

The Shower Scene: With and Without Music

The Shower Sequence: Storyboards by Saul Bass

The Psycho Archives

Hitchcock/Truffaut - Audio recording from filmmaker François Truffaut’s in-depth interview with director Alfred Hitchcock about Psycho

Posters and ad gallery

Lobby card gallery

Behind-the-scenes photo gallery

Production photo gallery

Psycho theatrical trailers

Psycho re-release trailer

A Phoenix secretary embezzles forty thousand dollars from her employer's client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.

The Birds special features:

The Birds: Hitchcock's Monster Movie

All About The Birds

Original ending

Deleted scene

Tippi Hedren's screen test

The Birds is coming (Universal International Newsreel)

Suspense Story: National Press Club hears Hitchcock (Universal International Newsreel)

100 Years of Universal: Restoring the Classics

100 Years of Universal: The Lot

Hitchcock/Truffaut - Audio recording from filmmaker François Truffaut’s in-depth interview with director Alfred Hitchcock about Vertigo

Theatrical trailer

A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people.