Word: friedkins
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...John Wayne and most of Old Hollywood; New Hollywood (whose spokesperson increasingly seems to be Jane Fonda) was so in evidence that even onetime McGovernite Warren Beatty observed that somebody ought to put in a good word for Ronald Reagan. All this earnestness was the work of Director William Friedkin, producer of the 49th Academy Awards presentation, who had ruled out all the traditional stuff that he felt had made filmdom's annual bash "tacky, like some Roman event." Beatrice Straight won Best Supporting Actress for her brief, intense role as a spurned wife in Network; Jason Robards...
Married. Jeanne Moreau, 49, protean femme fatale of French cinema (Jules and Jim, La Lumiere); and American Movie Director (The French Connection, The Exorcist) William Friedkin, 37; she for the second time, he for the first; in a brief civil ceremony in Paris. Moreau has been writing a book and a screenplay in the south of France while Friedkin, in Mexico, has directed The Sorcerer...
French Connection if, which is about to leave the Sack 57 any minute, has very little in common with its predecessor. The original French Connection was made by that slickest of American directors, William Friedkin, and it was seductive stuff. It helped demonstrate, like Don Siegel's Dirty Harry, that Charles Bronson--like punch-'em-up movies, seemingly innocent if a bit violent, could be fascist. All they needed was a good director, and it was enough to scare you silly--not what happened on screen, but the way you were responding. These pictures didn't necessarily bring...
...John Frankenheimer (Seven Days in May) made the sequel, and his style, while clumsier than Friedkin's, is at least not so sparkly. Now Gene Hackman can be more than a cog in a lulling machine (2 complex contraption with a cash register attached), and this new non-commercial version of the trials of Popeye Doyle in search of Frog One--a major supplier of New York's heroin--is therefore a great deal more interesting. Doyle was originally the kind of cop that would yank people out of phone booths and throw them out on their...
FRENCH CONNECTION II. John Frankenheimer's jolting, street-tough companion piece to William Friedkin's original, this tune featuring Popeye Doyle (Gene Hackman) prowling Marseille, looking for the Frenchman who got away...