William Friedkin’s Films, Ranked
On August 7, 2023, film director extraordinaire William Friedkin, a.k.a. Hurricane Billy, passed away. Here’s my ranking of his 20 features.
On August 7, 2023, film director extraordinaire William Friedkin, a.k.a. Hurricane Billy, passed away. Here’s my ranking of his 20 features.
The second feature directed by France’s late Alain-Robbe Grillet was this 1967 lark that took the Euro crime thriller model for quite a ride
One of the more interesting unknown films of the sixties was this 1968 feature by France’s Jean-Denis Bonan
A short film from 1966 that serves as an interesting precursor to SALO, OR 120 DAYS OF SODOM
Another impeccably visualized, violent and sexy thriller by Italy’s late Mario Bava
This book, in which the veteran writer/editor Chris Alexander explores Corman’s 1960-64 cycle of Edgar Allan Poe inspired films, is long overdue
Think FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX meets INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS in an irresistible 1968 horror-fest from Japan’s Shochiku studios
No other filmmaker has become as synonymous with Underground Film as the recently deceased Kenneth Anger
In which I make the heretical confession that I prefer the Americanized recut of EYES WITHOUT A FACE to the original version
A striking but largely unmoving film that premiered around the same time as (and was vastly overshadowed by) Mario Bava’s classic BLACK SUNDAY