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I've been a huge fan of film director William Friedkin since first seeing his Academy Award winning blockbuster 'The French Connection' when it was released on the big screen back in 1971. I was blown away by the look, style, editing, and music in the picture along with the incredible elevated train/car chase that was the centerpiece of the film. The French Connection is an adaptation of Robin Moore’s book of the same name, which was itself the true story of one of the biggest drug busts in American history, led by NYPD detectives Eddie.

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The long-awaited memoir from the Academy Award–winning director of such legendary films as

• Friedkin’s life story is a very worthwhile read. As for Friedkin’s economics, though this reviewer has suspicions about which way the legendary director leans, The Friedkin Connection is happily.
• The real detectives are in the movie. The French Connection is an adaptation of Robin Moore’s book.
• The long-awaited memoir from the Academy Award–winning director of such legendary films as The French Connection, The Exorcist, and To Live and Die in LA, The Friedkin Connection takes readers from the streets of Chicago to the suites of Hollywood and from the sixties to today, with autobiographical storytelling as fast-paced and intense as any of the auteur's films.William Friedkin.

The French Connection, The Exorcist,

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and To Live and Die in LA, The Friedkin Connection

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takes readers from the streets of Chicago to the suites of Hollywood and from the sixties to today, with autobiographical storytelling as fast-paced and intense as any of the auteur's films.

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William Friedkin, maverick of American cinema, offers a candid look at Hollywood, when traditional storytelling gave way to the rebellious and alternative; when filmmakers like him captured the paranoia and fear of a nation undergoing a cultural nervous breakdown.

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The Friedkin Connection includes 16 pages of black-and-white photographs.