LOS ANGELES -- William Friedkin, the filmmaker behind 1973's adaptation of novelist William Peter Blatty's horror novel "The Exorcist," has died at age 87. Stephen Galloway, dean of Dodge College of ...

William Friedkin, the Oscar winning director who became a top filmmaker in his 30s with the gripping "The French Connection" and the horrifying "The Exorcist," and struggled in the following decades ...

William Friedkin is rightly considered a pioneer of the New Hollywood movement that exploded onto American screens in the late ’60s and ’70s. Sometimes thought of as the enfant terrible of the New ...

Those are exact quotes from William Friedkin talking about William Friedkin, in the context of the filmmaker’s intentional lack of conventional artifice on what became his biggest hit and the most ...

Had William Friedkin — who passed away last week at age 87 — only directed “The French Connection” and “The Exorcist,” he’d be in the Filmmaker Hall of Fame. Both are classics in the sense that they ...

In his memoir The Friedkin Connection, the legendary director of films like The Exorcist and The French Connection recounts his journey from a... Friedkin, Who Pushed Film Forward, Looks Back As a kid ...

William Friedkin once received three paintings as a gift from a fan… an unknown artist named Jean Michel Basquiat. What he did with them, plus other stories from his new memoir.

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LOS ANGELES — William Friedkin, the generation-defining director who brought a visceral realism to 1970s hits “The French Connection” and “The Exorcist” and was quickly anointed one of Hollywood’s top ...