The Exorcist
This program is presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Part of the UCLA Film & Television Archive screening series The Devil Finds Work: James Baldwin’s Cinema of the Mind.
In-person: Live dramatic reading of an excerpt of The Devil Finds Work (1976).
The Exorcist (1973)
“For I have seen the devil by day and by night, and have seen him in you and in me.” —James Baldwin
Baldwin’s critique of The Exorcist provides the inspiration for titling The Devil Finds Work; he argued the film disguises human violence as supernatural evil. A cultural touchstone that broke box office records and sparked controversy, The Exorcist endures not for its demons, but for its visceral performances and psychological intensity, which helped paved the way for considering horror genre filmmaking to be serious art.
DCP, color, 122 min. Director: William Friedkin. Screenwriter: William Peter Blatty. With: Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Max von Sydow, Jason Miller.
The UCLA Film & Television Archive is a division of UCLA Library, and presents its public programs in the Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer, among other venues. For more information about the Archive, visit cinema.ucla.edu.
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