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It’s great. Thoroughly researched. Biskind pulls no punches but I enjoy reading about young, talented assholes acting like complete reprobates.
Well, he comes across better than Dennis Hopper and the countless other wife beating drug addicts that populate the book! It’s been years since I read it but he’s portrayed as being a bit ruthless and a bastard to actors. Friedkin’s addresses this stuff in his autobiography and he’s really honest about the shitty decisions he made which almost ruined his career. He doesn’t really play the blame game.I heard our collective friend Billy Friedkin doesn't come off too well. Although either does anyone supposedly.
Well, he comes across better than Dennis Hopper and the countless other wife beating drug addicts that populate the book! It’s been years since I read it but he’s portrayed as being a bit ruthless and a bastard to actors. Friedkin’s addresses this stuff in his autobiography and he’s really honest about the shitty decisions he made which almost ruined his career. He doesn’t really play the blame game.
Another recommendation for the book, it's been about 8 years since I read it but I thought it was great
I'm gonna torrent the audiobook tonight
Ok back to film chat topics:
Has anybody read Easy Riders Raging Bulls?
I'm considering it but not sure I want to read a book about how cunty all those 70's directors were. Or maybe I do. What are all your opinions on it?
The French Connection, The Exorcist and Sorcerer are simply three of the best films of the 70s. His 80s work is underrated – Cruising and To Live and Die in LA are terrific, and Rampage is a good serial killer thriller in the vein of Manhunter. The less said about his 90s films the better but you could say that about a lot of the movie brats ( although, technically he wasn’t part of the “movie brats” movement because he cut his teeth in TV and didn’t go to film school). His last two films, Bug and Killer Joe, have been an amazing return to form and I’d consider them modern classics. I love his work. His autobiography is terrifically entertaining as well. I would love to meet him.
Oh please..relax will you. How long have you been watching movies ffs? I loved TFC, Exorcist and Sorcerer but that was his peak (and I can think of another dozen movies that were better from that decade) - most of his stuff after that was mediocre and you are having a laugh if you think Killer Joe is a modern classic.... unless of course giving chicken drumsticks blow jobs is your idea of cutting edge cinema. Have you seen the The Hunt, Cruising and The Guardian? Cruising almost managed to destroy Pacino's legacy and The Guardian was one of the worst turkeys ever committed to celluloid.
Cruising is a quality movie that people have changed their opinion of over time.
Cruising is a quality movie that people have changed their opinion of over time.
Ok back to film chat topics:
Has anybody read Easy Riders Raging Bulls?
I'm considering it but not sure I want to read a book about how cunty all those 70's directors were. Or maybe I do. What are all your opinions on it?
He was Brock Rumlow in that captain america 2, with potential prospects for a Crossbones movie too.
grillo is ace. I watched The Purge Anarchy last night and he was really good in it
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