William Friedkin

L.A. Times Festival of Books schedule announced

2013-03-25 10:00:00

The program schedule for the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books was released Monday morning. The schedule, which is online, includes the complete list of author appearances and special events during the Festival of Books, April 20-21, on the campus of...

'Beyond the Hills' tells a different kind of exorcism tale

2013-03-09 07:00:00

In 2005, Romania's equivalent of the sensational O.J. Simpson trial rocked Eastern Europe when a priest and four nuns from a convent in the country's remote Moldavia region went to prison for accidentally killing a young woman during an exorcism. The case...

Depictions of violence in theater: Revelation, not nihilism

2013-02-15 12:00:00

In one of the most infamous scenes in modern drama, a group of young men in a London park stone a baby to death in its carriage. What begins as roughhousing escalates to all-out sadism until a rock is thrown at point blank range, ending the child's...

Sundance 2013: James Franco explains how porn imitates art [Video]

2013-01-23 07:30:00

PARK CITY, UTAH -- James Franco is never shy about pushing a few buttons with his filmmaking, and at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, he has his thumb exactly where you’d expect. Franco is involved with two films, the meta-documentary...

‘Sinister’: Scott Derrickson on horror … and Tavis Smiley

2012-10-13 08:03:42

High hopes, low notes for film world's NC-17 rating

2012-08-18 08:30:00

In the late '80s a thunderbolt of inspiration struck Jack Valenti, longtime chief of the Motion Picture Assn. of America: What if his organization got rid of the X rating, besmirched by years of misappropriation by hard-core exploitation films, and...

Fashion News: Katy Perry's costumes can be dangerous

2012-07-13 10:40:48

Matthew McConaughey's NC-17 'Killer Joe' posts so-so opening

2012-07-29 12:41:00

Did a prohibitive�NC-17�rating stop moviegoers from seeing�"Killer Joe"�at theaters this weekend? Maybe. The film, which stars Matthew McConaughey as a Dallas detective who also kills people for money, debuted in limited release this weekend and...

Woody Allen revisits opera in 'To Rome With Love'

2012-07-09 08:00:00

In his latest movie "To Rome With Love," Woody Allen plays Jerry, a retired music executive and former opera director who travels to Italy to meet his daughter's fianc�. Upon his arrival in the Eternal City, Jerry encounters his future son-in-law's...

Review: 'The Exorcist' falls short of a devilishly good time

2012-07-13 00:00:00

Two questions immediately presented themselves when it was announced that "The Exorcist" was going to be done onstage: How? And why? At the show's premiere Wednesday at the Geffen Playhouse, the creators seemed to be searching for answers to these...

List of films and release dates in summer 2012

2012-04-29 00:00:00

May 4 The Avengers A team of superheroes including Iron Man, Captain America, the Hulk and Thor unite to save the world. With Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo and Chris Hemsworth. Written and directed by Joss Whedon. In Imax 3-D. Walt Disney...

L.A. Film Festival: Kazan, Dano mix business with pleasure in 'Ruby Sparks'

2012-06-18 21:39:37

Electronic instrument maven Wendy Carlos worked with Stanley Kubrick on 1971's "A Clockwork Orange" and the two reunited for the reclusive director's chilly adaptation of Stephen King's haunted hotel epic starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall.

2012-10-24 12:55:00

Oldfield's repetitive, delicate melody played on the bells leads to a throbbing, fuzz-box guitar and a demonic-sounding synthesized bass before returning to where it starts in the edited single.

2012-10-24 12:50:00

Box office: $431,200 William Friedkin, best known for directing "The French Connection" and "The Exorcist," attempted a comeback with "Killer Joe," an ultra-violent film starring Matthew McConaughey, above, as a hit man hired by a man (Emile Hirsch) to kill his mother for the insurance money.

2012-08-14 12:57:35