Kermode Uncut is Mark Kermode’s movie blog for the BBC, which is always packed full of insightful information and film commentary from the man himself. Kermode, of course, is the brains behind the greatest text on The Exorcist film ever written – The Exorcist (BFI Modern Classics) (I consider this …

William Friedkin recently sat down with UK’s Guardian ‘In The Director’s Chair’ segment to once again discuss the newly released French Connection on Blu-ray. Interviewer Jason Solomons brought up questions about The Exorcist in the second half of the interview — not so much about The Exorcist Blu-ray release, but …

Earlier this week I posted that William Friedkin revealed in an interview with High Definition Magazine that the upcoming Blu-ray special edition release of The Exorcist will use ‘The Version You’ve Never Seen’ transfer. The interview is actually about Friedkin’s film The French Connection, for which he won an Oscar. …

Back in October 2008 it was revealed director William Friedkin was due to start work on The Exorcist Blu-ray release in December of that year. The source was the UK’s High Definition Review magazine, who had completed an interview with the director at the time. In December 08, in issue …

It will go down as one of the most famous Hollywood studio debacles in film history: Director Paul Schrader being fired from Exorcist: The Beginning after principal photography was complete, only to have the studio hire a new director (Renny Harlin) then proceed to fund a further 40 million dollars …