@26:09 Oh Maaaaan! I only *just* saw this, this YT post about Sorcerer today, on the 3rd. And now The Balboa has moved on to other films. Guess I'll have to settle for the DVD from my local library (if it's available.)
I have yet to see Sorcerer on the big screen, would jump at the chance. I first saw it on VHS in the 90s, hardly optimal format-wise but it blew me away (lol) regardless. A masterpiece of paranoid cinema. I was so enthused I had to force my friends to watch it with me and the slow drip character introductions almost had them out the door (I was disgusted with this mentality). Once it got into the truck voyage they were fully invested, I knew they would be.
Friedkin was essentially destroyed for setting the bar too high for what could be achieved in the American cinema, along with every other major American theatrical artist of the 1970-1980 era. It was an explosive cultural rennaissance that will never be equalled or surpassed in the post-Internet world.
Friedkin unfortunately burned those bridges as he admits but his style of filmmaking was definitely of an era. It's great that a new generation has discovered SORCERER.
Great film. So misunderstood. People didn't "get it."
This is my favorite Friedkin movie, To Live and Die in LA is number two. R.I.P.
TLADIL is very underrated.
@26:09 Oh Maaaaan! I only *just* saw this, this YT post about Sorcerer today, on the 3rd. And now The Balboa has moved on to other films. Guess I'll have to settle for the DVD from my local library (if it's available.)
I have yet to see Sorcerer on the big screen, would jump at the chance. I first saw it on VHS in the 90s, hardly optimal format-wise but it blew me away (lol) regardless. A masterpiece of paranoid cinema. I was so enthused I had to force my friends to watch it with me and the slow drip character introductions almost had them out the door (I was disgusted with this mentality). Once it got into the truck voyage they were fully invested, I knew they would be.
It's a slow burn, true, but once the music and journey starts...
Friedkin was essentially destroyed for setting the bar too high for what could be achieved in the American cinema, along with every other major American theatrical artist of the 1970-1980 era. It was an explosive cultural rennaissance that will never be equalled or surpassed in the post-Internet world.
Friedkin unfortunately burned those bridges as he admits but his style of filmmaking was definitely of an era. It's great that a new generation has discovered SORCERER.