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...William Friedkin...
...William Friedkin's 1985 film To Live and Die in LA was a critical and box office dud. This weekend, the Harvard baseball team starred in three sequels anyway...
...Spielberg was so nervous on the set of Jaws that he put celery in his pillow at night because he found the smell soothing. When he initially screened Star Wars, a disheartened George Lucas felt it would be considered just another kiddie flick. And The Exorcist's director, William Friedkin, became almost demonically possessed himself, foaming at the mouth and throwing objects...
...style of romantic naturalism; their goal is to make you believe, not to concentrate on the artistry of each of the 400 or so shots in a standard feature film. Editing, then, is the seams that don't show. The rule in Babe, says co-editor Jay Friedkin, was "Never break the spell." Most editors follow that commandment. "Editing should be invisible," says Robert Wise, an editor on Citizen Kane before he became a director, "so that the whole comes together in a strong, effective piece that carries the audience away...
...Francis-Bruce. "The trick to that is not to make it look bad, but to make it look raw-edged." But they are also digging for buried treasure. On Babe, "the director often just turned on the camera and hoped to dear God he got something that matched," says Friedkin, who cut the film with Marcus D'Arcy. "There's one shot where the pig is backing down the gangplank and falls off. That was obviously a blown take. But in the cutting room, Marcus saw that it took on an extra dimension...