The Exorcist

Director: William Friedkin

1973 / 122min / 4K DCP

When it first appeared in cinemas, Friedkin’s profane, blasphemous, frequently-brutal adaptation of William Peter Blatty’s bestselling supernatural thriller was experienced as a startling, almost-unprecedented cinematic assault, the harsh, harrowing work of a master filmmaker. Almost half a century later, though? The same damn thing. Priests Max von Sydow and Jason Miller, the latter in a performance of gloomy grandeur, are called on to cast a demon out of a Georgetown townhouse, and find themselves staring down pure evil.