The Exorcist
First screening date unrecorded / Most recently screened in August 2012

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Director: William Friedkin. Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Jason Miller, Max von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb, Kitty Winn, Reverend William O'Malley, Rudolf Schündler, Gina Petruska, Jack MacGowran. Screenplay: William Peter Blatty (based on his novel).

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Twitter Capsule: This is what people mean when they say the best horror films root you in human character. They're also scary as fuck.

Second Capsule: Diabolical etching of inner and outer disquiet: how much guilt can one movie take? Survives even hokiest flourishes.

VOR: ⑤  A prime meridian in the history of horror movies, a full participant in the paranoiac circuit of 70s auteurist cinema, and, for all its sensationalism, an earnest drama of faith. Remarkable.

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Photo © 1973 Warner Bros. Pictures

Not yet reviewed in full. Grade: A–

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Academy Award Nominations and Winners:
	Best Picture
	Best Director: William Friedkin
	Best Actress: Ellen Burstyn
	Best Supporting Actress: Linda Blair
	Best Supporting Actor: Jason Miller
★	Best Adapted Screenplay: William Peter Blatty
	Best Cinematography: Owen Roizman
	Best Art Direction: Bill Malley; Jerry Wunderlich
	Best Film Editing: John C. Broderick, Bud S. Smith, Evan A. Lottman, and Norman Gay
★	Best Sound: Robert Knudson & Christopher Newman
Golden Globe Nominations and Winners:
★	Best Picture (Drama)
★	Best Director: William Friedkin
	Best Actress (Drama): Ellen Burstyn
★	Best Supporting Actress: Linda Blair
	Best Supporting Actor: Max von Sydow
★	Best Screenplay: William Peter Blatty
	Most Promising Newcomer (Female): Linda Blair

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