In 1977, he released a movie he would later call the best of his career: "Sorcerer." But "Sorcerer" was a bomb, grossing only $6 million worldwide — short of its $21 million budget — and ...

Sorcerer movie poster, 1977. WF: No question I had in mind a kind of living purgatory and an attempt, only an attempt, at redemption, which I think is something that we all constantly aspire to.

The only thing funky about this ‘70s gem is its misleading title. “Sorcerer” is a moody, beautifully shot and tensely scored character study with a simple premise executed perfectly. And it has ...

Paramount/Universal Blu-Ray The opening title card for "Sorcerer." Director William Friedkin couldn't have been on more of a hot streak: "The French Connection, " released in 1971, won five Oscars ...

Sorcerer (1977) (IMDB) By Bennett Campbell Ferguson. August 10, 2023 at 12:24 pm PDT. When director William Friedkin died this week, he left a gaping hole in a Hollywood that had been shaped and ...

Lew Wasserman slammed his open palm on the slick surface of his mahogany Chippendale desk. The desk, free of all objects, as always, rested on an oriental rug. He glared at me through black horn ...

Also screening at Cannes this year will be two of Friedkin’s movies, 1977’s “Sorcerer” and 1985’s “To Live and Die in L.A.” Based on the Georges Arnaud novel “The Wages of Fear ...

William Friedkin's "Sorcerer" — a film that fell victim to shifting tastes when it opened more than three decades ago — will be remastered and released in theaters and for the first time on ...

“Sorcerer” review: Scorned upon its first release, lost for years in litigation, William Friedman’s brilliant reinvention of Henri-George Clouzot’s “The Wages of Fear” (1953) returns ...

So many expected big things for Friedkin’s next film, 1977’s “Sorcerer.” But it came and went quietly, barely getting noticed. And that was a travesty, according to many of its new fans.