Friedkin

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     The world is a quieter place now that he is gone. 

     My favorite films are The Birthday Party, Sorcerer and To Live and Die In L.A.

[T. D.]

R.I.P.
Certainly a fine legacy of work. But I have to mention, no disrespect intended, that Cruising (which I never saw, thank goodness) got some of the worst reviews I ever read.

Looked up the bio on Wikipedia, and Mr. Friedkin's first two (of four) wives were Jeanne Moreau and Lesley-Anne Down. Formidable!

Agreed on To Live and Die in L. A., but my (admittedly unoriginal) favorite is The French Connection, as I'm fond of gritty NYC films. Thought I might have seen Jade, but no: got it mixed up with The Last Seduction, another Linda Fiorentino (who was big for a while in the '90s) villainess film.

[Cato]

The world is a quieter place now that he is gone. 

    My favorite films are The Birthday Party, Sorcerer and To Live and Die In L.A.

Another vote for those two, especially Sorcerer, which has that hair-raising scene where a truck drives over a very unstable rope bridge!

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