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As several excellent books and articles are reminding us, 1968 was a year of tumult. Regimes were collapsing on this date 50 years ago, protesters jammed the streets, and the worlds of music and film were being re-imagined. Even the tightly regimented Cannes Film Festival exploded in a noisy chaos of demonstrations.

The convulsions of five decades ago, to be sure, did not have the enduring impact that many had imagined. Game-changing ideas crashed and burned, taking promising careers down with them. Indeed, it became cool in the ’60s to carefully study the rituals of survival rather than the keys to success.

Given this realization, I decided to seek out three proud ’60s survivors who not only defied the fates but actually managed to build on the frenzy of the times: Francis Coppola, Billy Friedkin and Peter Bogdanovich. Their careers were just starting to burgeon in 1968. Today, they seem as passionate as...

It seems Sony and Screen Gems are looking to piggyback on the meteoric success of New Line’s Conjuring film franchise and its many spooky spinoffs.

According to Deadline, the studios have landed the exclusive life rights of Father Gabriele Amorth, a renown Italian priest who is said to have performed tens of thousands of exorcisms in his lifetime on behalf of the Vatican. Tapping inspiration from his two best-selling memoirs, An Exorcist Tells His Story and An Exorcist: More Stories, the inevitable feature film will likely employ the tried-and-tested “based on real events” before playing in theaters, which worked wonders for the likes of The Amityville Horror, The Haunting in Connecticut and The Conjuring.

Father Amorth, meanwhile, passed away in 2016, though his detailed battle with evil was the subject of William Friedkin’s new documentary, The Devil and Father Amorth, from last year, and we imagine its popularity had...

More than 40 years after release of William Friedkin's The Exorcist in 1973, the ripples from the groundbreaking movie can still be felt. This April, Friedkin returns to theaters with another exorcism movie, taking an even more realistic approach to its unsettling subject matter by following Father Gabriele Amorth on a real-life exorcism house call.

The Orchard will release The Devil and Father Amorth in New York and Los Angeles theaters on April 20th. Friedkin's documentary will examine not only Father Amorth's unique line of work, but will also take a look back at the history of demons and how the fascinating subject of possession continues to permeate our modern-day culture. Stay tuned to Daily Dead for more updates on The Devil and Father Amorth, and read on for the official synopsis.

Synopsis: "In his latest, William Friedkin returns not only to his documentary roots but to the subject of one of his most towering works,...