Wednesday, August 16, 2023

FTM 688: WILLIAM FRIEDKIN TRIBUTE

Patrick and JB pay tribute to the late, great filmmaker.



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Also discussed this episode: Barbie (2023), Haunted Mansion (2023), The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023), Cobweb (2023), Malum (2023), Sympathy for the Devil (2023)

8 comments:

  1. Looking forward to this. Especially the listener e-mail section! I also just realised I forgot to submit my listener e-mail.

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  2. It makes me very sad to hear that Patrick’s students don’t respond favorably to movies of the ‘70s. For my money, it’s literally the greatest decade for movies ever.

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    1. I'm 45 and i'm wondering if we were like that at that age? I know i had my snobish period, when i only saw Truffaut or Bergman movies, but i can't remember if any my classmates or friends didn't like older movies?

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    2. Seconded. When one of my favorite former students went to film school about ten years ago, he told me the strange tale of his classmates being completely uninterested in older films. I was flabbergasted.

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    3. I mean, it's film school. Shouldn't they be a little interested?

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  3. This just in: Fathom Events will be showing William Friedkin’s The Exorcist in theaters nationwide on October 1st and 4th.

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  4. This was an awesome listen, as always! I have more exposure to Friedkin's later work than his beginnings, but your discussion made me want to go on a marathon of his movies. I have seen The Exorcist exactly one time, at a Halloween party where other things were happening simultaneously. So that probably means I haven't watched it if we're being honest. I have not seen Sorcerer (I know!) and I just watched TL&DILA, which was brilliant.

    Thanks for paying tribute to one of the greats!

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