Interview de William Friedkin - FEFFS 2017

Interview de William Friedkin - FEFFS 2017 - VO

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Festival Européen du Film Fantastique de Strasbourg

6 жыл бұрын

Interview de William Friedkin lors de son passage à la 10ème édition du Festival Européen du Film Fantastique de Strasbourg en tant qu'invité d'honneur.
www.strasbourgfestival.com
Journaliste / programmateur : Greg Lauert
Equipe technique : Marilyne Bouton, Thibaud Champlon, Julien Charlas, Romain Costanzo, Antoine Couppie, Quentin Courapied, Lucas Leclerc, Guillaume Leonhardt, Aline Pano, Nicolas Reitter, Pascal Richon, Camille Romont, Meryem Sahin.
Responsable vidéo : Julien Ditsch

Пікірлер: 48

@michaelhoelenii4295 6 жыл бұрын

@29:48 "I don't give a flying fuck into a rolling donut about what Al Pacino thinks" LMAO! You just gotta love this guy. Friedkin is one of my all time favorite directors.

@CelestialWoodway Жыл бұрын

I like him but he sounds jeous of Al Pacino's bigger and longer career.

@Vibeagain Жыл бұрын

@@CelestialWoodway why? He's the great director! Friedken has always been able to say exactly what's on his mind

@massi6528 Жыл бұрын

@@CelestialWoodway he might've been jelous if they were colleagues. They're not. He's a director, Al's an actor.

@of1300 10 ай бұрын

He to work with Pacino at a weak phase with personal problems. He is pissed because - of course- he deserved better

@seventhfirestephanie8740 Жыл бұрын

I had the brief pleasure of meeting Friedkin around this time at a signing. He hugged me for a photo and I thanked him for the nightmares. He smiled. No other director can top The Exorcist as a horror film.

@MichaelLaFrance1 10 ай бұрын

RIP, he was a great filmmaker and super-interesting person. If you go back and watch his movies, please realize how original each one was. He created styles and methods that were copied so much people lose sight of how revolutionary they were at the time. The grittiness and reality of the French Connection hadn't been seen quite like that until then, not to mention the action scenes. The Exorcist may seem somewhat passé today, but it certainly wasn't when it was released, it was ground-breaking and set the standard for everything that came after it. The quality and depth of acting he managed to pull from that cast is still incredible all these years later. Watching this interview now, many years after it was shot, we can see how prescient Friedkin was about the future of filmmaking. Even though he was an old-school filmmaker, he knew exactly where the industry was going, while some are still in denial. That's the hallmark of a true trailblazer. He knows the story is the thing, technology will continually change, but staying focused on telling the story is the one constant that will persist.

@suzylux 2 жыл бұрын

He's embittered, argumentative, set in his ways, and arrogant as hell, but I just love listening to his interviews. The way he speaks and expresses himself, the stories he tells, how he explains film, acting and his methods... I think he's such a compelling, sensitive, genuine and brilliant person. And he must know that The Exorcist IS a masterpiece. It's good enough to be sent into space for the aliens to have a look at. It will last forever.

@darnellmajor9016 2 жыл бұрын

LOL it doesn't make him arrogant but more like ''I'm tired of people not seeing the bigger picture in things''

@FrancoisDressler Жыл бұрын

@@darnellmajor9016 Exactly!

@localmo88 5 жыл бұрын

This whole interview is like a glorious train wreck. Man I love Friedkin

@Kedbuka 10 ай бұрын

Lol. Yep, he was awesome

@de4531 10 ай бұрын

Excellente interview, merci!

@fildasie5374 Ай бұрын

The Master !!! This guy is awesome!

@andragg 2 жыл бұрын

I love Friedkin and what he says in interviews. He's brutally honest, serious and passionate, but very funny too. After seeing The French Connection, The Exorcist and Sorcerer, I thought he was very special and different from his contemporaries. Also, his taste in music really impressed me because I was a big fan of a lot the artists who are on ECM records, and I read that Keith Jarrett's ECM record Hymns and Spheres, a pipe organ solo album, was being used in Sorcerer. That made me interested in seeing it and turned out to be his best film. For Cruising, he used the music from ECM artists Ralph Towner, Barre Phillips, and Egberto Gismonti.

@whodatvideo 5 жыл бұрын

Well, as someone who worked with a commercial film director for years, I heard what Director Friedkin said here, but really, if i can see it....he MUST be able to see the difference between 35mm and video...though in time I agree, video will be perfected to that degree...of course....but it ain't quite happened yet. Close but no dice. And i say that as a compliment to our great FILM directors. But I must say, what Director Friedkin says here has rung true to me for years in regard to Christianity. He knows his subject well and FEW do. I have great admiration for him who, in this age, has dared to question the truth and continues to show his respect for the knowledge he has acquired because of his vigilant study of the subject. As Martin Luther King said, "....nothing pains some people more than having to think." It was true yesterday and it is true today.

@darkknightwithanidea1845 10 ай бұрын

This is a man who was truly ahead of his time - look what he has to say @5:25 ( pretty soon they won’t need actors ) fast forward August 2023 & what do we have - APPLE ,GOOGLE ,AMAZON & NETFLIX pouring all their resources into AI. The actors / writers strike. He came at a time when Hollywood was about to CHOKE & DIE he along with a handful of others changed the system & bought masterpieces to the screen that saved a corroding system … apart from Chris Nolan - who does that anymore ? NO ONE & he left us when the next revolution is about to begin. YES SIR The master himself. William Friedkin.

@ArthurCAURAS 8 ай бұрын

@de4531 10 ай бұрын

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it". I think a good translation would be "Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien".

@matthewfield3533 6 жыл бұрын

Fantastic director.....but disagree on the point about CGI.

@winstonsmith9806 5 жыл бұрын

He is humble and verry bald.. The man has No fear ,what A quality.. A true Artist!😎

@brainsareus 4 жыл бұрын

humble....??

@Stereostupid Жыл бұрын

He is humble he doesn't look bald

@StruggleoftheOutsider 4 ай бұрын

old man awed by technology cant tell the difference

@michaelq49 Жыл бұрын

I love Friedkin's films and I respect his stubbornness. He likes what he likes and he isn't up his own butt with film knowledge.

@Stereostupid Жыл бұрын

William is being polite but he has to know cgi even at its best does not have the same effect as practical.. your eyes can see what's physically taking up real space and shape..i just watched Avatar 2 and yes while that's groundbreaking technology and the lighting and realism has been increased the stuff still has a cartoon element...its not the same even the worst practical looks more real than the best CGI...it depends but sorcerer is beautifully shot and the exorcist CGI will never look that real

@Superpowerless1 6 жыл бұрын

With all due respect to Friedkin. As much as I admire him, I think he is wrong when he says digital effects today are believable compared to a well shot early film. Digital ages badly. For example, I cannot watch anything that is full of cgi post 2015 as It looks fake as crap. I will no doubt say the same about current cgi films in 10 years time.

@jackflash8567 5 жыл бұрын

I've heard him say this bullshit many times and I have come to the conclusion that he doesnt believe it. I have no evidence for this theory but i feel like Freidkin has this weird guilt about the reckless methods he employed to get what he wanted for his films back in the day. He is associated with a bullish, arrogant, by any means necessary mindset when it came to shooting complex action. Some of the shit he did to pull of those amazing scenes in French Connection, To Live and Die In LA and Sorcerer are downright insane and in some cases literally illegal. Now that hes old and being asked about young filmmakers maybe he feels some responsibility to not encourage such recklessness. Just do it in the computer.. it's just as good. Again... it's a theory I'm just pulling out of my ass but I really don't believe him when he says this.

@harrycahill2140 5 жыл бұрын

it was used completely seamless in Fincher's Zodiac. So many shots I wasnt even aware of.

@emeraldviolet2001 5 жыл бұрын

@@jackflash8567 I agree. Linda blair described some pretty brutal days on the exorcist, there's that infamous moment of Billy not telling Jason Miller that he'd be hit with the vomit ect. The chase scenes in To Live and Die in LA & French Connection are hair-raising and you know forsure a lot of shots were done illegally

@emeraldviolet2001 5 жыл бұрын

Funny thing is you've probably seen A LOT of CGI you just didn't realize it. When used properly in conjunction with a well-written story, CGI enhances film beyond measure. I do agree with you that a good amount of CG work in FX-heavy films is god-awful nowdays and that is due to production companies outsourcing the effects shots to younger, and cheaper CG houses like MPC, who won't charge as much as veteran companies like Industrial Light and Magic and Weta Workshop to do the destruction in an X-Men film or the dinosaurs in Jurassic World. Babies are a good example of where CGI has been used where a real baby could not have been safely filmed, such as the drowning baby in "A Beautiful Mind" (2001) or the last baby on earth in "Children of Men" (2006) Other examples of effective usage of CGI are: Lt. Dan's amputated legs and the ping pong ball scene in "Forest Gump" Winklevoss twins in "The Social Network" The port of San Francisco in "Zodiac" The bullets going through the water in "Saving Private Ryan" The sheep in "Brokeback Mountain" The Tasmanian Tiger in "The Hunter" The scorpion fight in "Jarhead" The crowds in "The Fighter" The colosseum and crowds in "Gladiator" The fog and weather in Fincher's "Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" Many sequences in "Fight Club" Silva's cheek and cheek plate in "Skyfall" The tennis courts in "Wolf of Wall Street" Jennifer Connelly's tear in "Blood Diamond" (This was a FAIL) The White House and Washington D.C. in "Lincoln" 1930s Chicago in "Road to Perdition" Most of the Island's exterior in "Shutter Island" A city rat in "The Departed" One of Nina's hallucinations in "Black Swan" Toby Macguire's hair in "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" The trees blowing in "Cast Away" Set extensions/skyreplacements and microphones removed in "Les Miserables" These are just some examples of big movies that are considered non-effects-heavy films....90% of ALL movies have CGI work done in some way shape or form.

@brainsareus 4 жыл бұрын

A big part of it is, psychology: if you know it's bullshit; ie CGI, then it's hard to believe, that one's cinematic viewing reaction will be as rewarding. WF is a bit full of shit.

@StruggleoftheOutsider 4 ай бұрын

ooh.. cd's 😑

@brainsareus 4 жыл бұрын

ooh... shots fired at Tarantino.... ouch...

@CelestialWoodway 6 жыл бұрын

Al Pacino is a great actor with all due respect to William Friedkin... 29:29

@brainsareus 4 жыл бұрын

What's YOUR deal? WF never said, Pacino sucked; he simply stated, that he did not of necessity care for his process or opinion. Try listening, it's a good thing.

@CelestialWoodway Жыл бұрын

@@brainsareus And he was a total dickhead in the way he said it. Are you retarded?