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"""""[This book] captures the gut-wrenching shifts of a filmmaker's life--the bizarre whipsaw from success to disaster."" --Variety An acclaimed memoir from William Friedkin, a maverick of American cinema and 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. In this book, William Friedkin, offers a candid look at a thrilling era of Hollywood cinema, 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."

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William Friedkin (1935 - 2023) was the Academy Award-winning director of such iconic films as The Exorcist and The French Connection. William Friedkin (1935 - 2023) was the Academy Award-winning director of such iconic films as The Exorcist and The French Connection.

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