'The Exorcist' Director William Friedkin: Movies Now 'Opium for the Eyes' — hollywoodreporter.com

KARLOVY VARY — The release next month of a newly re-mastered DVD version of William Friedkin's Sorcerer, just a few months after the Blu-ray version was issued, is no accident. The director famous for helming The Exorcist and The French Connection has a reputation as a perfectionist. When the newly re-mastered Blu-ray of Sorcerer was released to accompany its new theatrical release in the U.S., a DVD with an old "pan and scan" version was also put out, the director said during a master class at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic. Friedkin said he was so angered by the low-quality of the DVD that he took to Amazon to insist that buyers demand their money back.

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