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'Sorcerer': William Friedkin’s Long Lost Existential Thriller
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| 19 Sep 2023
| Ed Driscoll
Posted on 09/20/2023 8:35:40 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: mylife
I was working for a Movie distribution company when that movie came out so I saw it many times , the more I saw it the more I appreciated it, a classic in my opinion.
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posted on
09/20/2023 2:31:36 PM PDT
by
ABN 505
(Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong. ~Archbishop Fulton John)
To: Rummyfan
One of the last of the latter group of films was William Friedkin’s “Sorcerer,” which “Star Wars” utterly demolished at the box office. As a result, it’s a film that was almost completely forgotten until Friedkin’s death at age 87 last month. It was considered a huge bomb initially in the wake of “Star Wars'”... I worked in a three-screen movie theater when both movies came out. We had Star Wars playing in both of the large theaters and Sorcerer played in the small theater. Sorcerer often played to an empty theater.
On a night off I went to see Sorcerer, and I still remember how tense I was during the movie. My shirt was drenched from sweat by the end of the film.
I can't recall any other movie that did that to me.
-PJ
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posted on
09/20/2023 2:47:42 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
To: Rummyfan
I love the soundtrack by Tangerine Dream.
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posted on
09/20/2023 3:14:17 PM PDT
by
yuleeyahoo
(“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!” - the deepstate)
To: discostu
I think it was Heaven’s Gate that really ended an era.
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posted on
09/20/2023 3:23:46 PM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man)
To: HYPOCRACY
There isn’t even a wizard or magician in it, let alone a sorcerer. Oh, but there is. Sorcerer is the name painted on one of the trucks. (Blink and you'll miss it.)
And as others have already pointed out: Remake of The Wages of Fear; the Tangerine Dream soundtrack fits well.
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posted on
09/20/2023 3:55:28 PM PDT
by
Moltke
(Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
To: mylife
It was a popular story to remake, apparently. I remember seeing it as “Violent Road”, with Brian Keith and Efram Zimbalist Jr.
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