Tag: the exorcist
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The Exorcist (1973)
When the movie adaptation of William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist opened the day after Christmas 1973, few who saw the picture could have imagined the film’s staying power. Over budget with no star names, the studio did not have high expectations for its returns and were shocked by its wild success. Even in the 1970s,…
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Good Times (1967)
American cinema lost one of its iconic filmmakers of the ‘New Hollywood’ era when William Friedkin passed away August 7. His most celebrated works stem from the 1970s, that great decade of commercial moviemaking when it seemed to audiences then (and especially now) that a new sense of filmmaking and the purpose of cinema was…