num_pages: 497
description: The long-awaited memoir from the Academy Awardwinning 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 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. The Friedkin Connection includes 16 pages of black-and-white photographs.
language: English
title: The Friedkin Connection: A Memoir
publisher: Harper