Highbrow Lowbrow – William Friedkin Special

Highbrow Lowbrow is back with a tribute episode to the legendary Hollywood director William Friedkin who died in August of this year. My highbrow pick is Sorcerer. A critical and commercial failure when it was released, Friedkin’s film charting the journey of four desperate transporting unstable dynamite across the Amazon jungle has been critically reassessed in recent years, and is now regarded as a classic of suspense.

My podcast co-host Dan Slattery choice of film is To Live and Die in LA. A tale of counterfeiting and the secret service, double and triplecrosses, Dan argues that To Live and Die in LA is a modern noir classic, and more than just The French Connection for the west coast.

You can listen to the full episode here.