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William Friedkin, director of The Exorcist and the French Connection, dies aged 87

Oscar-winning director rose to fame for his cutting-edge style of editing

The Independent UK

Venice film festival picks starry films despite actors’ strike

Hollywood films vying for Golden Lion include Bradley Cooper’s Maestro and Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things, with non-competition films by Wes Anderson and Richard Linklater

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Ellie Simmonds’s deeply moving search for her birth mother

The swimmer reveals how she was given up for adoption shortly after she was born. Plus: an investigation into the costs of renewable energy. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

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The French Connection: Film fans fume as classic 1971 movie is censored without explanation

‘This is an absolutely unacceptable move,’ one person raged

The Independent UK

The real priest behind 'The Pope's Exorcist' was a fan of Hollywood horror films

On April 14, 2023, Sony Pictures released “The Pope’s Exorcist,” a horror film inspired by the life of the Rev. Gabriele Amorth. Amorth served as the exorcist for the Diocese of Rome from 1986 until his death in 2016 at the age of 91.

The Conversation

Owen Roizman, ‘French Connection’ and ‘Exorcist’ cinematographer, dies at 86

LOS ANGELES — Five-time Oscar nominated cinematographer Owen Roizman, who shot landmark films including “The French Connection,” “The Exorcist,” “Network” and “Tootsie,” has died. He was 86.

Los Angeles Times

‘Heat’-Ing Up: Michael Mann Writes Sequel-Prequel ‘Heat 2’

Decades after the release of Michael Mann’s “Heat,” the classic crime thriller has endured in the minds of fans, critics, peers and the director himself. He had so much left to say. “There’s always the sense of being shortchanged,” Mann said during a Zoom interview from his apartment in Modena,…

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'Heat'-ing up: Michael Mann writes sequel-prequel 'Heat 2'

Decades after the release of Michael Mann’s “Heat,” the classic crime thriller has endured in the minds of fans, critics, peers and the director himself

The Independent UK

You need to watch the scariest movie of the 20th century before it leaves Netflix this week

A can't-miss classic, 'The Exorcist' has surprising origins in the game show winnings of author William Peter Blatty.

Inverse

45 years ago, the worst Exorcist sequel almost killed the franchise forever

The Heretic was conceived as nothing more than a “low-budget rehash” heavily reliant on unused footage from The Exorcist.

Inverse

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