Tag: The Boys in the Band
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William Friedkin’s Many Unrealized Projects, from ‘Exorcist’ Sequels to a ‘Killer Joe’ TV Series
William Friedkin, one of the great directors of the New Hollywood movement, died August 7 at the age of 87. The news launched an outpouring of love for the director, whose ’70s and ’80s film work proved some of the most enduring and beloved of that cinema-redefining period.The son of Jewish Ukrainian immigrants, Friedkin was…
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William Friedkin, director of ‘The French Connection,’ dies at 87
The director’s latest film is set to premiere at the Venice festival.William Friedkin, the Oscar-winning American director of The French Connection and The Exorcist, has died aged 87.According to the New York Times, Friedkin’s wife Sherry Lansing, the former head of Paramount Pictures, said the filmmaker died of heart failure and pneumonia at his home…
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William Friedkin dies at 87
The director’s latest film is set to premiere at the Venice festival.William Friedkin, the Oscar-winning American director of The French Connection and The Exorcist, has died aged 87.According to the New York Times, Friedkin’s wife Sherry Lansing, the former head of Paramount Pictures, said the filmmaker died of heart failure and pneumonia at his home…
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William Friedkin’s Best Movies and Where to Stream Them
When William Friedkin died at the age of 87 on August 7, the film world lost a singular director who continued taking risks until his final days — and a vital link between the New Hollywood innovators of the 1970s and the blockbuster era that followed.After cutting his teeth on conventional Hollywood fare like the…
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William Friedkin’s Most Controversial Movie Is Better Than The Critics Claimed
The recently departed William Friedkin has a fascinating relationship with the gay community, not only as the infamous director of “Cruising,” but also as the director of the film adaption of “The Boys in the Band” a decade prior, a monumental work of mainstream American queer cinema (and the first Hollywood-made film to use the…
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William Friedkin, New Hollywood Maverick and ‘Exorcist’ Director, Dead at 87
William Friedkin, the Oscar-winning director of “The French Connection” and legend behind “The Exorcist,” has died at age 87. His death in Los Angeles was first reported by Variety, and the news was confirmed by Chapman University dean Stephen Galloway, a friend of Friedkin’s wife, former studio head Sherry Lansing.Friedkin’s sensational 1971 “The French Connection”…
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‘The Boys in the Band’ Review: Richly Performed and Full of Layers
The entire cast and director of the 2018 Tony-winning Broadway revival of Mort Crowley’s The Boys in the Band return for this 2020 Netflix film adaptation, and you can feel it. There’s a quiet confidence, a mode of working both locked-in and free to be free, a commanding grasp of the material’s most elliptical, complicated…
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The Boys in the Band review – fierce fun and games in the pre-Aids era
This new film version of the off-Broadway hit about gay lives in New York is strange, compelling and unexpectedly potentIt’s hammy and stagey and campy, but The Boys in the Band turns out to have a fiercely watchable soap-operatic intensity, a sustained attack of telenovela craziness, culminating in a full-on anxiety attack from its leading…
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‘The Boys in the Band’ Review: Mart Crowley’s Stage Scandal Is Now a Darkly Witty Romp on Netflix
The shocking drama and dark camp of Mart Crowley’s play “The Boys in the Band,” which first bowed off-Broadway in 1968, is hard to top. Filmmaker William Friedkin first brought this two-act stage drama about a group of out-gay male friends to the big screen in 1970, giving audiences a peek behind the velvet curtain…
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‘The Boys in the Band’ Review: Jim Parsons and Zachary Quinto Find the Relevance of the Datedness in the New Netflix Version
There are plenty of dramas that look different with time, but it’s the peculiar fate of “The Boys in the Band,” Mart Crowley’s groundbreaking 1968 play, to have been so buffeted by changing times that the play keeps changing its identity. At this point, in fact, I’d say that there are five stages of “The…