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BULLITT
July 23, 2014  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

 

This 1968 Steve McQueen movie, featuring one of the best car chases ever filmed, is one of four movies selected and presented tonight by guest programmer William Friedkin, who directed one of the other all-time speeding-car classics, The French Connection. Friedkin has great taste in movies, based on this quartet, all of which can and should be devoured and enjoyed. After Bullitt, TCM and Friedkin present 1948’s The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (10:15 p.m. ET), 1967’s Belle de Jour (12:30 a.m. ET), and 1966’s Blow-Up (at 2:15 a.m. ET). I know why I love those films – but tune in, as I will, to learn why Friedkin does.

 
 
 
 
 
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