Josh Safdie on Sorcerer

This film is his masterpiece.

The biggest negative of "Sorcerer" is that it isn't "La Salaire de Peur".

Hmm Do yourself a favor and watch the original..."Wages Of Fear"

It was a tragedy how this movie bombed because it's not even one of those fancy film buff kind of movies where you have to have a Rick and Morty IQ to be able to appreciate its brilliance, it's just brutal and wild and insane and crazy and freaky, and ANYONE can love it. The fact that Friedkin somehow topped The Exorcist and French Connection is even more tragic that this movie went unseen for decades until the recent (well, early 2010s) revivals and restorations.

I was 17 in 1977 and literally was the person described in the opening: I had zero interest in seeing Star Wars and bought a ticket for Sorcerer instead. And I wasn't disappointed. Over the next year I saw it another 3 times. The original theater experience was stunning and I knew then it was something special.

My fav Billy Friedkin Flick!!! The opening scenes alone are so brilliant. Especially that ending... "May I have this dance?"

Eventually Re-Remade as "Vertical Limit", that rock climbing gone wrong Chris O'Donnell movie vehicle...

Filmed in the Dominican Republic

Both versions are masterpieces in their own right. "Sorcerer" is in my top 10 or 15 movies.

This film is in a class all its own. I put it up there with the greatest films of all time. I found the soundtrack on vinyl first in 1991 at a used books and records store in college. The cover was so cool. After listening I liked it so much I had to see the movie and found it on VHS at the same store. It was not what I was expecting at all and I couldn't stop watching it. I tried to get everyone I knew to watch it. Masterpiece.

Sometimes I really feel like you're tracking my film journey with these uploads. Loved Sorcerer, the pinnacle
of suspense. Great video, keep it up with the long uploads. Cheers

Love this film, but Friedkin's ego destroyed it by giving it a nonsensical title and not giving in to Steve McQueen's small demand to give Ali MacGraw a job.

Gorgeous flick.

Bought the blu-ray in 2016 for $8 Canadian

the original french film is just absolutely terrific definitely watch that first before diving into this one, but both are just stunning.🎉

1977 was a great year with many great movies but Sorcerer was tops. It’s Friedkin’s best movie. The action, suspense and music are spine-tingling. It had the misfortune of opening a few weeks after Star Wars.

An absolute masterpiece

I saw Tangerine Dream in concert in the late 1980's and thought they were amazing live. Not just synthesizers, but actual musical instruments too. An incredible band to see live!

Who is Josh Safdie?

Loved Roy in this! But Friedkin was desperately trying to get Steve McQueen for that role. Didn’t work out, obviously. But I think if McQueen plays that role the movie would have been a smash hit and endured a more favorable legacy.

dude. to call that film tense is accurate but it's not even close to as strong enough word.. your asshole will seal up for a portion of it. you will stop breathing during parts. it's a masterpiece. one of my favorites - i show it to every person who tells me "i like movies" and havent' seen it.. plus that soundtrack? next level.

Sorcerer is a underrated masterpiece 📽 🎞
I have the soundtrack on vinyl it's Epic 🎹

Friedken's best movie, and one of the greatest films of all time

Always laughed when fellow film buffs would say "Wages of Fear" was superior, lofl.

Friedken is easily up there with Kubrick, in my opinion.

Like how old is this guy wtf

As a French, I think this movie pisses on Clouzot's version.It's one of my best childhood memories. Extremely dark, like a fever dream. Also, if there has to be a good opportunity to get acquainted with Bruno Cremer, well this is one. The only thing missing in Friedkin's version is VERA CLOUZOT haha

It's sort of got the same type of nightmare structure as Heart of Darkness where you're on a tour through hell, and it just gets worse and crazier the further in you travel.

Purgatory is the real deal as far as plot. Cool flick.

God i love this movie.

I desperately need new or interesting movies to watch, thank you very very much for this. I just watched it and man was it a good freaking time.

also, if anyone is perusing the comments and see's this and you have any great movies to reccomend off the top of your head please do. foreign movies, auteur and it doesnt need to be those, can be box office stuff.

thank you for your time!

The world would be a better place if Star Wars tanked and Sorcerer was a huge success.

One of my favorites of all time.

Uncah CHAms

Friedkin was very clear that this was not a remake of the Clouzot film but a re-adaption of the book. This is why the movies are so different despite the core of the movies being the same (transporting dangerous material through wild terrain). My blu-ray of Sorcerer has an extensive interview with Friedkin on this very matter.

I dig the movie but can't reconcile how a multinational oil firm with helicopters decides to move leaky TNT 200 klicks overland instead of flying in a fresh batch straight to the well site. But I was kinda faded the only time I watched it so maybe I missed the set-up

Tangerine Dream also did the music for "The Keep".

I really like this movie. My only complaint is the beginnings sequences. They are well done but I think they could have been compressed or rearranged. By time we get to them all in the town they are nobodies. So those beginning portions almost don’t matter. You can almost start the movie in the village and throw a couple more lines for each of them and we’d know these guys (like how John Boorman cut the first third of Dickie’s novel in the movie Deliverance, we didn’t need all that backstory. In 5 minutes we know all those characters).

I never loved sorcerer. I also never loved wages of fear either.

Great fuckin movie. I can’t believe something so awesome and uncanny, by such a polarizing, groundbreaking artist, could go so unrecognized and unappreciated for so long.

There's a big landscape shot in this film that's real, but is the strangest landscape you ever saw.

Great film! Terrible introduction... Seems like one of those things where Mr. Safdie looked at his google calendar one afternoon and realized he had to present a film in two hours and hoped the gods smiled on him. They did not. It's actually fitting, considering the film.

Reminds me of when I went to see Virgin Suicides and walked into Battlefield Earth by accident. Or was it the other way around?... Rough movie watching week regardless.
Love Sorcerer, too.

Its an absolute masterpiece and felt it got the same reception as Carpenters The Thing, people just didn't appreciate what they saw at the time this is filmmaking that you just never see now and maybe never will see again because of the utter insanity it took to make it, its up there with Herzogs Fitzcarraldo and he's right it was a miracle nobody died making that movie.

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Perfect background montage. I can clearly imagine the scene on stage. Thanks! 👍

Friedkin's Aguirre . 🤭

Technically, Sorcerer is not a remake but a different adaptation of the book. Like Friedkin said, there´s no remake of Hamlet, just different adaptations. And the title Sorcerer means that fate is like a wizard. Because Sorcerer is about the mistery of fate and world nations in conflict.

Sorcerer is one of the trucks.
Friedkin saw, when they got beat up trucks, that locals would name the trucks and paint the names on the side.

Both Sorcerer and Wages of Fear are must watch movies

As a big fan of Star Wars I can definitely say that Sorcerer is a damn good film

"Nothing like it" buddy I can think of one movie just like it, and it's called GOOD TIME!!