Welcome to Highbrow Lowbrow, the show where our podcast hosts Steve Powell and Dan Slattery pit high art against low culture.

In this special episode dedicated to the director William Friedkin, who died in August of this year, we look at two lesser-known films from the auteur’s canon.

Steve’s pick is Sorcerer, in which a group of desperate men transport unstable dynamite across two hundred miles of the Amazon jungle. A critical and commercial bomb when it was first released, Steve argues that Sorcerer is a journey worth taking and shouldn’t be considered dead on arrival.

Dan’s choice is To Live and Die in LA. It’s a crime film often described as The French Connection of the 1980s West Coast, but does Friedkin pull off the transition?

As always, dear listener, the final decision is up to you. Beware spoilers. Enjoy the show....