The Friedkin Connection

William Friedkin directed The French Connection and The Exorcist back to back, won an Oscar at thirty-two, and spent the rest of his career refusing to play safe. His memoir is candid about the luck, recklessness and outright bullying that produced those films, and unusually honest about the failures that followed. Guillermo del Toro calls it a frank, brutal and inspiring memoir and filmmaker’s journey by a true maverick of cinema.