The Best Movies About Filmmakers, and ‘Boorman and the Devil’
John Boorman's Exorcist II: The Heretic is widely regarded as one of the worst sequels ever made, but the new documentary Borman and the Devil reframes it as a bold artistic misfire by an uncompromising filmmaker. Hosts Sean Fennessey and Tracy Letts dissect the film’s failure, its dire
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