William Friedkin took all of his built up moviemaker credit from doing The French Connection and The Exorcist back to back and made Sorcerer, a movie that was immediately wiped off the face of the ...

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.

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 ...

The Summer Movie Road Not Taken 1977’s Sorceror was the antithesis of Star Wars, ... William Friedkin’s unfairly maligned Sorcerer, now out on Blu-ray, is finally getting its due.

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 ...

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 ...

“Sorcerer” also played Saturday as part of the TCM Film Festival and will play the Cinefamily beginning April 16, In a recent phone interview, Friedkin, 78, spoke about what the movie means to ...

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 ...