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By Patrick Hipes

Franco German TV network Arte has boarded high-profile doc “Fellini of the Spirits” exploring Federico Fellini’s lifelong interest in everything metaphysical and featuring Oscar winners Damien Chazelle and William Friedkin among talking heads.

Willem Dafoe has to date had a long and diverse acting career that’s seen him work with some of the world’s most renowned filmmakers, among them Martin Scorsese, Zhang Yimou, William Friedkin, Oliver Stone and Dee Rees. Dafoe has a fondness for playing misunderstood oddballs and men who march to their own beat, which somewhat explains why his turn as a kind, generous motel manager in Sean Baker’s The Florida Project was greeted with surprise.

By Greg Evans

It's been nearly a half-century, but no filmmaker has come close to creating an exorcism-themed movie more terrifying than William Friedkin's classic The Exorcist. That doesn't ambitious horror film directors from trying, however, as evidenced by the latest effort from director-screenwriter Pearry Reginald Teo (Ghosthunters, The Curse of Sleeping Beauty).