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Fair Play | Exorcist : Believer | Disclosure (1994)

On Truth & Movies this week we debate if Fair Play means a new era for the erot­ic thriller and if Exor­cist : Believ­er proves a wor­thy sequel to the late, great William Friedkin’s clas­sic tale of pos­ses­sion. And final­ly, for film club, it’s a return to the erot­ic thriller’s hey­day with 1994’s Disclosure.
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In Praise Of

Crisis of faith: The Exorcist at 50

by Greg Cwik

Fifty years since William Fried­kin unleashed a demon at the mul­ti­plex, the impres­sive per­for­mances of Max von Sydow and Jason Miller are as haunt­ing as ever.
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Festivals

The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

William Fried­kin’s final film sees Jason Clarke act as a reluc­tant naval lawyer in a high­ly irreg­u­lar case, attempt­ing to prove the inno­cence of a sailor accused of mutiny.
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In Praise Of

How The French Connection reinvented the Hollywood cop movie

by Jarek Kupść

Gene Hack­man mani­a­cal­ly nav­i­gates New York’s crime world in William Friedkin’s endur­ing procedural.
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Interviews

Alexandre O Philippe on telling the inside story of The Exorcist

by Anton Bitel

The doc­u­men­tary mak­er dis­cuss­es Leap of Faith, his spir­i­tu­al exca­va­tion of William Friedkin’s 1973 masterpiece.
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Home Ents

Why The Exorcist III remains a fascinating, flawed horror sequel

by Anton Bitel

A sense of cre­ative con­flict infus­es William Peter Blatty’s spir­i­tu­al fol­low-up to William Friedkin’s 1973 classic.
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Home Ents

How Cruising exposes the dangers of internalised homophobia

by Anton Bitel

William Friedkin’s 1980 thriller casts an unwa­ver­ing eye over New York’s gay S&M subculture.
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Review

Sorcerer (1977)

by Ian Schultz

Don’t miss this rare oppor­tu­ni­ty to catch William Friedkin’s for­got­ten mas­ter­piece on the big screen.

4
Anticipation
5
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
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The head-spinning strangeness of the Turkish Exorcist remake

by Josie Finlay

This scene-for-scene redo of William Friedkin’s hor­ror clas­sic has to be seen to be believed.
Two elderly people, a man and a woman, wearing dark clothing and standing in front of a Christian cross.
Festivals

The Devil and Father Amorth – first look review

by Ed Gibbs

William Fried­kin revis­its his Exor­cist fran­chise with a bizarre doc ground­ed more in melo­dra­ma than cold hard fact.