Daniel Robert Epstein: William Friedkin

DANIEL ROBERT EPSTEIN: William Friedkin

Few people have disturbed as many people with their work as film director William Friedkin. But since his high point of The French Connection and then The Exorcist, he has yet to make a film that connected so well with the human psyche until now. Bug, based on the play by Tracy Letts, is Friedkin’s most disturbing work yet. Ashley Judd plays Agnes, a lonely woman in rural Oklahoma who is introduced to Peter [played by Michael Shannon] and they quickly start a highly sexual love affair. After spending a few days together, Peter...

Great to see an interview with a director who I feel is vastly underated these days.

Odd that he thinks The Guardian failed, its honestly the only film hes done besides Exorcist I thought was really interesting, the whole driad/celtic thing.