Hazel Motes

not when the rest of the story is a film like To Live And Die in L.A.

Solid Snake

And Sorcerer.

Ash Ketchum

What, no love for the very first Friedkin film I ever saw, THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED MINSKY'S?

banthafett

1.The Exorcist
2. To Live and Die In LA

Jaymole

I enjoyed that as well as The Birthday Party...own both films on DVD.

This is my top 5 Friedkin films ranked:

The Exorcist
The French Connection
Boys in the Band
Sorcerer
To Live & Die in L.A.

IstvanTheHun

The French Connection is hands-down a masterpiece, one of the all-time best films.

The Exorcist is a landmark horror/religion film, easily amongst the top 300 films of all time (French Connection is top 75 material)

These are obviously his two best films.

However...

SORCERER is easily one of the most underrated films ever made, and should be part of Friedkin's trifecta of masterpieces. I find Annie Hall to be one of the most overrated films ever, also one of the worst Best Picture winners...especially considering its the same year that Sorcerer, Network, Star Wars and A Bridge Too Far were released - any of those could have won the Oscar instead, and I'd say Sorcerer and Network should have been the frontrunners.

Also, To Live and Die in L.A is a superior cop movie.

The Rules of Engagement is also an above-average military thriller, underrated.

IstvanTheHun

Agreed, Sorcere is AWESOME.

If any film demands a Criterion Blu-Ray release...its Sorcerer.

wm lopez

NETWORK came out in 1976.

Solid Snake

it did indeed.

IstvanTheHun

you are correct, my error. Network should have won over Rocky, and Sorcerer over Annie Hall.

asianxcore

The Exorcist

inri222

Found this and decided to post it here :

Solid Snake

Alright. Now wtf are those images of exactly? Says do not return at the top left. What is it?

cleaver

I don't find The Exorcist scary but it is my favorite Friedkin movie by a healthy amount. So well made.

inri222

Two poster for the movie Cruising.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9...7fcfo1_500.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BZNmZPE7uC...ng-poster2.jpg

JumpCutz

Great posters. Thanks for posting those inri222. Love the stark imagery and a nice touch with the knife blade under the title in the 2nd pic.

inri222

Top 5

The Exorcist
The French Connection
Sorcerer
Cruising
To Live And Die In LA

Why So Blu?

Top 5:

Sorcerer
To Live and Die in L.A.
The French Connection
The Exorcist
Killer Joe

Paul_SD

I had the chance to see The Exorcist at the theater in it's last re-release before it hit cable and ultimately home video. I was 12 years old, and a good Catholic boy (as well as a Famous Monsters fan), and the movie packed a HUGE wallop. I was a major fan of it for quite a while.
When I finally revisited it the last couple years though, so much of my worldviews have changed that it was very difficult to take it ...seriously.
French Connection is even worse with so much of it's, at the time trend setting, grittiness coming across as very self conscious and arch now. The whole "Did you pick your nose in Poughkeepsie?" scene was as cheesy an eye-roller as anything in the first Donner Superman (to name one other film people have vehemently declared to be horribly 'dated' now).

Before my last viewing of Exorcist, I probably would have reflexively listed that as my favorite.
Now the choice is even easier- The Brink's Job. I don't now why the hell this is an also ran in his filmography. He's working with a great story, the film has truly outstanding period detail, and the cast is a full serving of character acting heavy-weights at their peaks (Peter Falk, Peter Boyle, Paul Sorvino, Warren Oates). One of my favorite heist movies ever made.

JumpCutz

Top 10

The Exorcist
Sorcerer
The French Connection
Cruising
To Live And Die In LA
Killer Joe
Bug
Rampage
The Brink's Job
The Boys in the Band

Why So Blu?

It's "Did you pick your FEET in Poughkeepsie" not nose. No wonder it comes off cheesy to you. You messed it up.

Paul_SD

You're right.
But the scene/movie still comes across as false and contrived to me.

JumpCutz

Really wish we had a BD of The Brink's Job, for that matter Rampage, Bug and Cruising too.

dhmac

Sorcerer was not even nominated for Best Picture in 1977.

And it tended to get slammed by a lot of reviews at the time of its release because it is a remake of The Wages of Fear (traditionally, major critics almost have a knee-jerk dislike of remakes of any film considered a classic, no matter how good the remake is).

Jory

You could do a whole topic on all the "THAT'S what won Best Picture?!" situations that have occurred over the years. For example: How Green Was My Valley over Citizen Kane and The Maltese Falcon; Around the World in 80 Days over Giant, The King and I, and The Ten Commandments; My Fair Lady over Dr. Strangelove; Kramer vs. Kramer over Apocalypse Now; Ordinary People over Raging Bull and The Elephant Man; Out of Africa over Kiss of the Spider Woman; Driving Miss Daisy over Born on the Fourth of July, Dead Poets Society, Field of Dreams, and My Left Foot; Dances with Wolves over Goodfellas and Awakenings; Forrest Gump over Pulp Fiction and The Shawshank Redemption; The English Patient over Fargo, Jerry Maguire, and Shine; Titanic over As Good as It Gets, The Full Monty, Good Will Hunting, and L.A. Confidential; Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan; Chicago over The Pianist and Gangs of New York; The Return of the King over Master and Commander, Mystic River, and Lost in Translation; The Departed over Letters from Iwo Jima...

...and the worst of them all: Crash over Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Good Night and Good Luck, and Munich.