Fifty years after its release, William Friedkin’s The Exorcist retains all of its power to shock and provoke. To mark the anniversary, Friedkin’s biographer Nat Segaloff recalls his time with…

Fifty years after its release, William Friedkin’s The Exorcist retains all of its power to shock and provoke. To mark the anniversary, Friedkin’s biographer Nat Segaloff recalls his time with the late director, while Adrian Martin journeys through his varied and often underappreciated oeuvre. Elsewhere in the issue, Thelma Schoonmaker and Martin Scorsese pay tribute to the ebullient filmography of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, Kieron Corless reports from Venice Film Festival and finds consensus with the jury’s prize-giving, and author Sinéad Gleeson speaks to Carol Morley about her portrait of outsider artist Audrey Amiss.