Tag: The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
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The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial Review: William Friedkin’s Final Film Is A Stellar Courtroom Drama
William Friedkin is gone, and he leaves us with one final film, the stirring, effective courtroom drama “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial.” Adapted by Friedkin from Herman Wouk’s play, “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial” runs the risk of being too stagey; too much like a play merely transported to the screen without anything cinematic to add. Thankfully,…
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‘Caine Mutiny Court-Martial’ Sneak Peek – Lance Reddick Dresses Down Jason Clarke
Earlier this year, the film world was struck by the tragic loss of Academy Award-winning director William Friedkin. Best known for his work on beloved films like The Exorcist and The French Connection, Friedkin still had one more project up his sleeve with the legal drama adaptation The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial based on the Pulitzer…
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‘The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial’ Review — Friedkin’s Final Film
It’s not often that we so definitively know an artist’s last project will, in fact, be their last. The world isn’t as clean and tidy as that, and oftentimes, it’s tragic to find that a piece of art is the last bastion of a truly great mind. So examining William Friedkin’s final film, The Caine…
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10 Posthumously Released Movies by Acclaimed Directors
Legendary director William Friedkin’s contemporary version of The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial has come in the wake of his recent passing from heart failure and pneumonia. At the age of 87, Friedkin left behind a significant body of work—ranging from documentaries to crime thrillers to an episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. In the film community,…
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‘The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial’ Trailer: William Friedkin’s Swan Song Is a Military Courtroom Drama
William Friedkin’s final feature “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial” is debuting on Showtime.Friedkin, who died in August 2023 at age 87, wrote and directed the adaptation of Herman Wouk’s 1953 play, itself adapted from his own Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The film version, which takes place entirely inside a courtroom, follows a U.S. naval first officer (Jake…
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Kiefer Sutherland Stars In The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial Trailer, William Friedkin’s Final Film
The filmmaking legend and one of the last standing titans of New Hollywood, William Friedkin, died last month. Tributes have poured out around the globe in the form of heartfelt open letters from collaborators, unearthed clips from the bombastic director’s interviews and home video commentaries, and just about every repertory cinema in the country programming…
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Guillermo Del Toro Wants a Theatrical Release for William Friedkin’s Final Film Out of ‘Respect’
Guillermo del Toro is determined to have late director William Friedkin’s final film reach theaters.Friedkin’s “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial,” which del Toro served as an assistant director on, premiered at the Venice Film Festival and is set to debut on streaming platform Paramount+ later this year, as well as screen on Showtime.“I know it’s not…
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The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial review – William Friedkin’s final film looks for the truth
Venice film festival: A courtroom drama based on events in Herman Wouk’s second world war novel The Caine Mutiny, Friedkin leaves us with a valuable last effortThe ghosts of film history can be seen all over Venice, the city where Dirk Bogarde sat down in a deck-chair and died and Donald Sutherland was bewitched by…
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‘The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial’ Review: William Friedkin’s Deceptively Simple Swansong Is Another Morbid Excavation Of Human Weakness & Cruelty [Venice]
A quote by William Friedkin himself opens “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial,” describing the film, as well as all the filmmaker’s other works, as being about “the thin line between good and evil.” This line is all the thinner here, in the American director’s final feature, for it is entirely a matter of opinion. We are…
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Damien Chazelle Pays Tribute to William Friedkin in Moving Speech at ‘The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial’ Venice Premiere: ‘He Was Fearless’
Damien Chazelle paid tribute to late great director William Friedkin on Sunday in a moving speech at the Venice Film Festival where Friedkin’s last film “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial” premiered out-of-competition to warm applause.Friedkin, who died on Aug. 7 in Los Angeles at age 87, completed the film – which stars Kiefer Sutherland as Lt.…