{"id":9083,"date":"2018-04-22T19:53:21","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T02:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9083"},"modified":"2018-04-29T19:59:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T02:59:00","slug":"friedkin-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2018\/04\/22\/friedkin-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Friedkin Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2018\/apr\/24\/william-friedkin-interview-exorcist-director-you-dont-know-a-damn-thing-and-neither-do-i\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from The Guardian<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"content__headline \"><span class=\"content__headline--interview-wrapper\">William Friedkin: &#8216;You don\u2019t know a damn thing, and neither do I&#8217;<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span class=\"content__headline--byline-interview\">By <a class=\"tone-colour\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/charles-bramesco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author noopener\" data-link-name=\"auto tag link\">Charles Bramesco<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Exorcist director returns to his demonic roots with a new documentary, but he\u2019s not interested in discussing your skepticism<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MF-LPsCsdr8\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/1jPWGEoyJHY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">video clip<\/a> featuring William Friedkin recently experienced a small level of virality among online film circles, in which the film-maker dresses down Nicolas Winding Refn after the younger director declares his own film Only God Forgives to be a masterpiece. Friedkin repeatedly calls for a medic, compares Refn\u2019s film unfavorably to Citizen Kane, and most memorably, uses a vivid metaphor that puts the \u201canal\u201d in \u201canalogy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Friedkin, speaking on a drizzly afternoon in his suite at New York\u2019s Carlyle Hotel, wants to make it clear that he bears no ill will to Refn. \u201cI like him! He\u2019s a nice guy. I like him very much.\u201d But the larger truth underlying their charged exchange persists: <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/william-friedkin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-link-name=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">William Friedkin<\/a> simply does not give a damn.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"element element-rich-link element--thumbnail element-rich-link--upgraded\" data-component=\"rich-link\" data-link-name=\"rich-link-1 | 1\">\n<div class=\"rich-link tone-feature--item rich-link--pillar-arts\"><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>He\u2019s aged 82 now, and seven years out from the release of his last film. (That was 2011\u2019s chicken-fried neo-noir Killer Joe, a classically Friedkinian work in its marriage of extreme, lurid material with tightly controlled aesthetic rigor.) He\u2019s on the press circuit once again because he\u2019s finally got a new film to promote, an entirely self-funded documentary titled The Devil and Father Amorth<em>. <\/em>The project dips back into Friedkin\u2019s past as the man behind The Exorcist, chronicling the real-life purging of a demon by a Vatican higher-up. Skeptics will be tempted to place the words \u201creal-life\u201d in scare quotes, and the film doesn\u2019t mount a particularly convincing case as to why they shouldn\u2019t have that caveat. It\u2019s here that Friedkin\u2019s blithe disregard for what the general public thinks emerges as the source of all his power; believe him or don\u2019t believe him, it\u2019s all the same as far as he\u2019s concerned.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2018\/apr\/24\/william-friedkin-interview-exorcist-director-you-dont-know-a-damn-thing-and-neither-do-i\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at The Guardian<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Guardian William Friedkin: &#8216;You don\u2019t know a damn thing, and neither do I&#8217; By Charles Bramesco The Exorcist director returns to his demonic roots with a new documentary, but he\u2019s not interested in discussing your skepticism A video clip featuring William Friedkin recently experienced a small level of virality among online film circles, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}