Another Meeting With the Director of Sorcerer Just When He’s on a Rampage of His Own The moment I finished seeing an advance screening of Rampage, before its theatrical release in October 1992, I arranged a trip to Los Angeles so I could cover the film in as close-up-and-personal a way […]
‘Sorcerer’ Reappears . . . William Friedkin’s Variation on Clouzot’s Wages of Fear Revived IN THE EARLY months of 1992, interest in Henri-Georges Clouzot’s 1953 French classic Wages of Fear was keen. An uncut version was running at the Castro Theater in San Francisco and Sorcerer, a 1977 American remake […]
Writer’s Note: Coming up is a history of one of the most popular and controversial movies of the 1950s. First I will give you the history of The Wages of Fear (French 1953). Then you will find my review of the uncut version, not seen in America until 1992. That […]
The following piece on a major bit of Star Trek movie history first appeared in the Sunday Datebook of the San Francisco Chronicle on Dec. 1, 1991. For some inexplicable reason I failed to include it with the rest of my Star Trek interviews in my 2007 autobiography, I Was […]