Francis Ford Coppola hails William Friedkin as ‘a deep-feeling giant of a man’

Francis Ford Coppola is survived by his wife Sherry Lansing and sons Cedric and Jack (Joel Ryan/AP)

Francis Ford Coppola has remembered William Friedkin as a “deep-feeling giant of a man” and “my first friend among the filmmakers of my generation”.

The Godfather director said Friedkin’s work “represents true milestones in cinema” and that all of his films were “alive with genius”.