
Sorcery for Writers and Readers (and those who love them)
By Steven Barnes I recently attended a screening of director William Friedkin’s classic “Sorcerer”, a 1977 adventure film starring Roy Scheider as a man on an impossible mission. It is a gritty, nasty, impeccably made film doomed to obscurity probably for the sin of using a supernaturally suggestive title designed to sucker in fans…