'The Exorcist' director William Friedkin has died
William Friedkin, the director of Oscar-winning films 'The French Connection' and 'The Exorcist' has died at the age of 87.
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William Friedkin, the director of Oscar-winning films 'The French Connection' and 'The Exorcist' has died at the age of 87.
Gene Hackman has been out of the film game for almost twenty years now and ostensibly retired, but he was more than happy to take part in a chance to celebrate the 50th anniversary of The French Connection - and with it, one of the great film car chase sequences in history.
It’s the heart-stopping moment when a bashed-in Pontiac LeMans hurtles beneath NYC’s elevated subway at 90 miles an hour, dodging traffic and pedestrians in a wild race to keep up with a hijacked N train rumbling overhead. That five-minute sequence — a crash course in ‘70s guerrilla filmmaking — is now regarded by many to be the best movie car chase of all time.