Sorcerer Seminar
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About
The one-two punch of THE FRENCH CONNECTION and THE EXORCIST catapulted Oscar-winning director William Friedkin to the peak of 1970s Hollywood, leading him to embark on what would become his most ambitious project yet, SORCERER. An even grittier reimagining of Henri-Georges Clouzot’s legendary French nail-biter THE WAGES OF FEAR, Friedkin’s film channels THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE as it follows four desperate fugitives who risk it all transporting unstable nitroglycerin through the jungles of South America. Where Clouzot’s film is a brutal exercise in suspense, Friedkin’s reworking becomes an odyssey into madness — an almost mythic descent into fate and doom.
What began as a modest detour soon spiraled into a $22 million passion project. Though dismissed upon release—partly due to opening in STAR WARS’ shadow—time has been kind to this heart-stopping masterclass in action, suspense, and visual storytelling. Anchored by Roy Scheider’s haunted lead performance and Tangerine Dream’s hypnotic score, SORCERER now stands as one of New Hollywood’s greatest achievements — a cinematic force of nature mirroring the chaos of its own making.
Dan Santelli (he/him) is a Philadelphia-based arts administrator, film programmer, and writer. His background includes an internship at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute, serving as Repertory Film Programmer for the late, great Elks Theatre in Middletown, PA, and managing the film program at Civic Theatre of Allentown. He was also a key figure at the venerated video rental store Viva Video (Ardmore, PA) and recently earned an MS in Arts Administration from Drexel University, where he wrote a thesis on the history of repertory film curation and its methodologies. Having seen over 8,000 films, he is dedicated to strengthening the audience’s connection to cinema in all its sundry forms — from the populist and accessible to the recondite and esoteric. He loves cats
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