This year, following the legendary director’s death on Aug. 7, Venice will screen his final film, 'The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial,' as well as a restored version of his classic 'The Exorcist.'
In 2013, Friedkin was awarded the fest’s Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. Festival director Alberto Barbera praised Friedkin for having “revolutionized the popular genres of the crime film and the horror film, basically inventing the modern blockbuster with .
Friedkin also marked the occasion by offering advice to young filmmakers: “If you are in film school, leave immediately. Go out, get a small camera, make your film, edit it at home, put it on a website, and do it yourself. Don’t worry about criticism, just let the audience see your work, free of any critical appraisal.
“Nobody can teach you how to make movies,” he continued. “It is something you learn by doing and by seeing. Because cinema begets cinema. My films are passable because of what I’ve seen in the works of others. All a young person has to do to learn how to make a film is watch the films of Alfred Hitchcock.”
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