Fifty years after its release, William Friedkin’s The Exorcistretains all of its power to shock and provoke. To mark the anniversary, Friedkin’s biographer Nat Segaloff recalls his time with the late director, while Adrian Martin journeys through his varied and often underappreciated oeuvre.
Elsewhere in the issue, Thelma Schoonmaker and Martin Scorsese pay tribute to the ebullient filmography of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, Kieron Corless reports from Venice Film Festival and finds consensus with the jury’s prize-giving, and author Sinéad Gleeson speaks to Carol Morley about her portrait of outsider artist Audrey Amiss.
Plus: the Black Film Bulletin looks at the legacies of Fespaco and Ousmane Sembène and revisits a classic Arther Jafa interview; Tim Burton on his works-in-progress; Molly Manning Walker on How to Have Sex;Nicolas Philibert on On the Adamant; an archive interview with Rouben Mamoulian; and much, much more.
