R.I.P. William Friedkin, we miss you already

William Friedkin records one of the greatest director commentary tracks of all time for the Cruising Blu-ray

William Friedkin creates an Amazon account to write a single movie review (to talk shit about the transfer on a Sorcerer DVD)

Employing the greatest counterfeiter of all time to print fake money for To Live and Die in LA, Wiliam Friedkin waits for the statute of limitations to expire to finally admit that, of course, he was spending that phony money in real life

When the counterfeit money from To Live and Die in LA first started showing up in circulation, William Friedkin's strategy while the US Treasury Department asked him to cooperate with an investigation, was to act as belligerent as possible lol

William Friedkin doesn't want Gene Hackman in The French Connection and discovers the wrong actor from Belle de Jour has been hired in the title role, makes a masterpiece anyway

William Friedkin is informed that License to Drive, starring the fucking Coreys, stole his car chase going against traffic sequence from To Live and Die In LA

William Friedkin on The Exorcist II

William Friedkin employs an arsonist who specializes in insurance fraud to rig up a big explosion in Sorcerer

William Friedkin's thoughts on a book about his films, written from a scholarly perspective

William Friedkin chooses to spend most of an interview talking about Strokin' by Clarence Carter, which everyone should listen to (at least) one time tonight in his honor, but preferably over and over again

Amazing

William Friedkin on slapping the priest in The Exorcist (and others 😊)

@redsteeze Great how they got Trump to dub his voice

Just a wild filmography. The most famous horror movie ever. Two masterpiece crime movies, one NYC, one LA, two claustrophobic plays, a goddam sports movie with Shaq and Nick Nolte. Master of intensity.

based thread. thank you v much

Immense 💔 It was a huge honor to know him and be followed by him

This clip must be archived in National Film Registry

My Grampa Bud worked on the exorcist. Made the pea soup vom and bed that rose and shook etc. RIP to all these real ones we’ve lost

@redsteeze This thread is ah’mazing.

I didn’t know about three quarters of these. @ZODIAC_MF is right. RIP God Friedkin.