William Friedkin, Academy Award winning director of THE FRENCH CONNNECTION and THE EXORCIST, will be doing a LIVE SKYPE Q&A on July 14th, 2014 at the Warren Oldtown Theatres in Wichita, KS immediately following the 7pm showing of the newly restored digital print of his lost 1977 classic SORCERER - a presentation of Leif Jonker's WICHITA BIG SCREEN initiative! SORCERER will show July 14th & 15th, 7pm & 10pm both nights (four shows total), at the Warren Oldtown Theater in beautiful downtown Wichita, KS. Tickets are only $5.00! The Skype Q&A will only take place following the first show, 7pm on Monday July 14th, but there are plans to record the conversation and make it available here on YouTube. Starring Roy Scheider of JAWS fame and written by Walon Green, screenwriter of Sam Peckinpah's seminal western THE WILD BUNCH, William Friedkin's SORCERER is an absolutely terrific big budget action/adventure and suspense/drama about four desperate men who accept the suicide mission of driving two trucks filled with extremely unstable nitro-glycerin over 200 miles through the jungles of south America - the explosives being delivered to put out a blazing inferno at a sabotaged oil refinery. Based on Georges Arnaud's novel THE WAGES OF FEAR, previously adapted to film by Henri-Georges Clouzot, SORCERER was released to theaters one week after STAR WARS and was completely steamrolled over by the worldwide phenomena of that film's blockbuster success. Met initially with mixed "love it" or "hate it" reviews, SORCERER was championed and defended by a number of critics including Roger Ebert but ultimately failed to find a wide audience and was quickly pulled from theaters to make more screens available for STAR WARS. Over the last 37 years SORCERER has slowly been rediscovered and critically re-evaluated to the point where it is now considered to be an overlooked masterpiece and Friedkin himself says it the one film he hopes to eventually be remembered for as it is his favorite and most personal of all his work. SORCERER is being presented in Wichita by The Warren Oldtown Theatre, Hero Complex Games and Entertainment, F5paper.com, jx12.net and Wichita Big Screen. Started in 2011, Wichita Big Screen is an ongoing initiative by Leif Jonker to bring classic movies to Wichita theatres. Having began with programming horror film programs during the Halloween season, primarily at the Warren Oldtown with the "October at the Oldtown Horror Festival" (but also with movies at the Warren Theatre's Palace West, the Starlite Drive-In and the Augusta Theatre), Jonker has started working exclusively with the Warren Theatres to arrange screenings of non-horror classics to be shown throughout the year. Their recent screening of the uncut 1954 Japanese language version of the original GODZILLA (aka GOJIRA) back in May was a huge success with 3 completely sold out shows. Following SORCERER Jonker aims to start programming other cinematic favorites and classics on a semi-monthly basis. For updates on future Wichita Big Screen shows join us on Facebook at: facebook.com/groups/wichitabigscreen For theater info visit: warrenoldtown.com Send questions to: [email protected]