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“The most significant young performance in generations in American film” is how Sean Penn described Emile Hirsch's work on the epic Into the Wild. Hirsch physically transformed himself to bring to the screen the liberating and deadly adventure of Chris...

The filmography of celebrated director William Friedkin is a colorful one indeed. First-year film buffs will, of course, point to classics like The French Connection (1971) and The Exorcist (1973), while the more seasoned of the celluloid-obsessed will rattle...

Earlier this week I had a chance to talk with a Hollywood legend for well over an hour. From working with Hitchcock, to his extraordinary success with The Exorcist and The French Connection, through to his edgy and vital new...

[With the film opening theatrically in New York today and expanding wider next week, we revisit our review from the last edition of the Toronto International Film Festival.] When the name William Friedkin comes up in conversation, you cannot help...

A rejuvenated Matthew McConaughey teaming up with celebrated director William Friedkin in an NC-17 hitman tale? Oh, yes please.When 22-year-old Chris (Emile Hirsch) finds himself in debt to a drug lord, he hires a hit man to dispatch his mother,...

"It sounds like it's the worst movie when you pitch it. I usually, say 'It's about a family that buys a zoo!', and just when their eyes begin to glaze over, I say, 'well, it's a Cameron Crowe movie!'"...

I stumbled across this poster, to the left, today, and it reminded me that one of the great overlooked films on the festival circuit of 2011, William Friedkin's Killer Joe, has yet to see the light of a cinema release.  ...

"Most people nowadays are run by fear. Fear of what they eat, fear of what they drink, fear of their jobs, their future, fear of their health. They're scared to save money, and they're scared to spend it." That...

When the name William Friedkin comes up in conversation, you cannot help but think of the directors crazy genius period in the 1970s with iconic films such as The Exorcist and The French Connection, or even his highly enjoyable To Live And Die in...

It would appear that Matthew McConaughey is turning his back on the romcoms that made him a mint and going back to being an interesting actor. McConaughey is in the midst of a string of solid titles - with nary...

No joke: There is a dead squirrel outside my house right now. It's a black one, which is apparently unusual everywhere else but the most common variety here in Toronto, and it lies nestled against the right rear tire...

It is not a common thing for a festival to give an entire slot over to just a single half hour film. And it is not a common thing for a festival to bring in cast and crew and...

We love us some Thomas Haden Church in these parts. And we also love us some David Green, Green being the director of festival hit short film Melt Down a little while back. So the two of them working together?...