Acclaimed film director William Friedkin will be honored with a lifetime retrospective at this year's Oldenburg International Film Festival.
The 84-year-old director of such genre classics as The Exorcist, The French Connection and To Live and Die in L.A., will not be able to attend the German independent festival but will participate in a live Q&A that Oldenburg will stream worldwide.
Oldenburg said Freidkin's career has always "remained on the threshold between independent film and blockbuster cinema," making him an ideal candidate for the German festival, which prides itself on maintaining the exact same balance between audience and art-house appeal.
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