Daniel is a University of Louisville graduate with an English degree, a sizable collection of Blu-rays, books, records, and a love of hiking. In 1980, the director of The Exorcist and the star of The ...

William Friedkin, who died Aug. 7 at age 87, will probably be best remembered for two films he directed in the 1970s — 1971's The French Connection, for which he won the Best Director Oscar, and ...

Here’s something scary: Al Pacino never watched William Friedkin’s famed “The Exorcist” before working with the late auteur on “Cruising.” Pacino, who is now playing an exorcist in “The Ritual” ...

The Oscar winner's other credits include To Live and Die in L.A., Cruising, Rules of Engagement and a TV remake of the classic play and Sidney... LOS ANGELES — William Friedkin, the Oscar winning ...

As he noted in more than a few of the generously candid interviews he gave over the years, William Friedkin believed profoundly in the existence of evil. That may not sound like the stuff of ...

Oscar-winning director William Friedkin, legendary filmmaker behind the 1971 crime thriller The French Connection, and 1973’s The Exorcist, among many others, died Monday in Los Angeles at the age of ...

Pacino infamously had a contentious dynamic with the late auteur, who died in 2023. “I didn’t even see ‘The Exorcist’ in my life,” Pacino said, adding, “It’s a great film, I hear. I should see it. I ...