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Directed by WILLIAM FRIEDKIN Screenplay by WILLIAM PETER BLATTY...
...their eyes. I bet he didn't wash his hand for a month after he met John Ford. And I bet he had a space on the mantle all picked out for his Oscar that through some error in the script ended up in the arms of Bill Friedkin, director of The French Connection...
David Suskind: "What's Good, What's Bad, What's New at the Movies?" Discussion with Vincent Canby (N.Y. Times film critic), Peter Bogdanovich (director of "The Last Picture Show"). William Friedkin (director of "The French Connection"). Eleanor Perry (screenwriter of "Diary of a Mad Housewife"). Penelope Gilliat, and Paul Zimmerman (Newsweek film critic), 9, March 11. Chan...
...experience in television, Friedkin has developed a functional style of filming, one calculated to catch the moods of New York without being particularly ingenious, or at all artificial. The things Friedkin catches are as simple as the late-afternoon February sun, shining at a flat angle through the cold, dirty, Brooklyn air and glinting off the storefront windows along an avenue: a kind of photography that takes not so much technical virtuosity as the prescience to find the right moment and the competence to catch...
...variant ("it's a dull, tough job but I wouldn't have it any other way, and only the facts please, Ma'am,") and without the exploitation-potential of a hero-villain with an especially pathological personality. Working in the realm of the possible (if not quite the typical) Friedkin has disciplined his actors to imitate real policemen and other essentially dull but real people--rather than having them assume the imagined mannerisms of a scriptwriter's brain-child. In American film it's a new style of acting, demanding the selflessness of a technician rather than the self-consciousness...