On this day in movie and book history - The Exorcist (1973)

The Exorcist

directed by William Friedkin,

written by and based on the novel by William Peter Blatty,

was released in the United States on December 26, 1973.

Music by Jack Nitzsche.

Excerpt from Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield.

Cast:

Ellen Burstyn, Jason Miller, Linda Blair, Max von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb, Kitty Winn, Jack MacGowran, Father William O'Malley, Father Thomas Bermingham, Peter Masterson, Robert Symonds, Barton Heyman, Rudolf Schündler, Arthur Storch, Vasiliki Maliaros, Titos Vandis, Dick Callinan, William Peter Blatty, Mercedes McCambridge, Eileen Dietz.

Recommended reading - The Exorcist

The Exorcist: A Novel (1971).

by William Peter Blatty.

Published by Harper Paperbacks

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 006209436X

ISBN-13: 978-0062094360

Description:

Four decades after it first shook the nation, then the world, William Peter Blatty’s thrilling masterwork of faith and demonic possession returns in an even more powerful form. Raw and profane, shocking and blood-chilling, it remains a modern parable of good and evil and perhaps the most terrifying novel ever written.

On this day in movie history - Minority Report (2002)

Minority Report

directed by Steven Spielberg,

written by Scott Frank and Jon Cohen,

based on the novella The Minority Report by Philip K. Dick,

was released in the United States on June 21, 2002.

Music by John Williams.

Cast:

Tom Cruise, Max von Sydow, Steve Harris, Neal McDonough, Patrick Kilpatrick, Jessica Capshaw, Richard Coca, Keith Campbell, Kirk B.R. Woller, Klea Scott, Frank Grillo, Anna Maria Horsford, Sarah Simmons, Eugene Osment, James Henderson, Vene L. Arcoraci, Erica Ford, Keith Flippen, Nathan Taylor, Radmar Agana Jao, Karina Logue, Elizabeth Anne Smith, Victoria Kelleher, Jim Rash, Colin Farrell, Stephen Ramsey, Tom Choi, Tom Whitenight, William Morts, Samantha Morton, Daniel London, Michael Dickman, Matthew Dickman, Lois Smith, Tim Blake Nelson, George D. Wallace, Ann Ryerson, Kathryn Morris, Tyler Patrick Jones, Dominic Scott Kay, Arye Gross, Ashley Crow, Mike Binder, Joel Gretsch, Jessica Harper, Bertell Lawrence, Jason Antoon, William Mesnik, Scott Frank, Severin Wunderman, Max Trumpower, Allie Raye, Rocael Leiva, Nicholas Edwin Barb, Catfish Bates, Peter Stormare, Caroline Lagerfelt, Danny Parker-Lopes, Vanessa Cedotal, Katy Boyer, Adrianna Kamosa, Kari Gordon, Elizabeth Kamosa, Raquel Gordon, Laurel Kamosa, Fiona Hale, Pamela Roberts, Clement Blake, Jerry Perchesky, Victor Raider-Wexler, Nancy Linehan Charles, Nadia Axakowsky, Dude Walker, Tony Hill, Drakeel Burns, William Mapother, Morgan Hasson, Andrew Sandler, Bonnie Morgan, Kathi Copeland, Ana Maria Quintana, Lucille M. Oliver, Gene Wheeler, Tonya Ivey, David Stifel, Kurt Sinclair, Rebecca Ritz, Beverly Morgan, John Bennett, Maureen Dunn, Ron Ulstad, Blake Bashoff, David Doty, Gina Gallego, David Hornsby, Anne Judson-Yager, Meredith Monroe, Benita Krista Nall, Shannon O’Hurley, Jorge-Luis Pallo, Elizabeth Payne, Ethan Sherman, Jarah Mariano, Miles Dinsmoor, Vanessa Asbert.

Born on this day – Max von Sydow:

Max von Sydow

Actor

April 10, 1929 – March 8, 2020

Credits:

4 x 4 (1965); A che punto è la notte (1994); A Kiss Before Dying (1991); A Look at Liv (1979); A Man and His Dog (2008); AFI Life Achievement Award (1983); Ägget är löst! En hårdkokt saga (1975); Alltid på en söndag (1963); Atlanten (1995); Autour de 'Rush Hour 3' en 80 mots (2008); Awakenings (1990); Belmondo: Il était une fois le beau monde (2011); Bending Colours (2012); Black Journal (1977); Black Palm Trees (1968); Bogart (1988); Branded (2012); Brass Target (1978); Brink of Life (1958); Bröllopsdagen (1960); Capture - Meet Robert A. Robinson Photographer (1995); Carl Jung: Wisdom of the Dream (1989); CBS This Morning (1989); Cellini: A Violent Life (1990); Charlie Rose (2012); Christopher Columbus (1985); Cinema 3 (2016); Citizen X (1995); Code Name: Emerald (1985); Conan the Barbarian (1982); Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan' (2000); Cuore di cane (1976); Dagbok genom ett sekel (1986); Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror (2001); Death Watch (1980); Delblanc (1996); Deleted 'Dune' (2006); Depth Solitude (1995); Destination Dune (1984); Diálogos de cine (2008); Dragons 3D (2013); Dreamscape (1984); Druids (2001); Duet for One (1986); Dune (1984); Echoes of the Past (2021); Embassy (1972); Emotional Arithmetic (2007); En frusen dröm (1997); Europa (1991); Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977); Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011); Familjen Schedblad (1988); Father (1990); Filmkrönikan (1988); Flash Gordon (1980); Foreign Filmmakers in Hollywood (1989); Foxtrot (1976); Game of Thrones (2016); George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1984); Ghostbusters (2009); Ghostbusters II (1989); Good Morning America (1984); Gösta Berlings saga (1986); Hamsun (1996); Hannah and Her Sisters (1986); Hawaii (1966); Heidi (2005); Here Is Your Life (1966); iroshima: Out of the Ashes (1990); Hour of the Wolf (1968); Hurricane (1979); I havsbandet (1971); I själva verket är det alltid något annat som händer (1971); Il pentito (1985); Illustrious Corpses (1976); Ingen mans kvinna (1953); Inger Stevens in Sweden (1965); Ingmar Bergman (1972); Ingmar Bergman: The Director (1988); Ingmar Bergman: The Magic Lantern (1988); Intacto (2001); Interlude in the Marshland (1965); Jag Carl Larsson (2003); Jarl's (1994); Jerusalem (1996); Jesus Christ, Movie Star (1992); John Rabe (2009); Judge Dredd (1995); Jugando con la muerte (1982); Kojak: The Belarus File (1985); Kvartetten som sprängdes (1973); La fuga degli innocenti (2004); La nuit des Césars (2008); Le cercle des passions (1983); Le dernier civil (1985); Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2016); Les amants de Mogador (2002); Let Poland Be Poland (1982); Ljuset håller mig sällskap (2000); Lumière and Company / Liv Ullman (1995); Made in Hollywood (2011); Made in Sweden (1969); March or Die (1977); Max Von Sydow: Dialogues with the Renter (2012); Minority Report (2002); 'Minority Report': The Players (2002); Miss Julie (1951); Morfars resa (1993); Mr. Sleeman Is Coming (1957); Muumi ja punainen pyrstötähti (2010); Needful Things (1993); NET Playhouse (1972); Never Say Never Again (1983); Night of the Living Dorks (2004); Nils Holgerssons underbara resa (1962); Nöjesmaskinen (1984); Nuremberg (2000); Och ge oss skuggorna (1993); On the Set of the New Film by Dario Argento: Sleepless (2001); Onkel Vanja (1994); Only a Mother (1949); Oscar and the Lady in Pink (2009); Oviri (1986); Pelle the Conqueror (1987); Piedra del sol (1990); Premio Donostia a Max Von Sydow (2006); Prisma: Illustrerad konst- och kulturrevy (1960); Private Confessions (1996); Professione fantasma (1998); Public Broadcast Laboratory (1968); Quo Vadis? (1985); Rabies (1958); Radetzkymarsch (1994); Rätten att älska (1956); Red Carpet Report (2012); Red King, White Knight (1989); Ring of the Nibelungs (2004); Robin Hood (2010); Rush Hour 3 (2007); Samson and Delilah (1984); Screen One (1997); Shame (1968); She Dances Alone (1981); Shutter Island (2010); Sleepless (2001); Snow Falling on Cedars (1999); Snow Falling on Cedars: Spotlight on Location (2000); Solomon (1997); Solomon Kane (2009); Sommar & Vinter i P1 (1994); Spion 503 (1958); Square (2012); Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015); Starring Sigmund Freud (2012); Steppenwolf (1974); Strange Brew (1983); The 15th Annual People's Choice Awards (1989); The 1988 European Film Awards (1988); The 1990 European Film Awards (1990); The 31st Annual Golden Globe Awards (1974); The 37th Annual Academy Awards (1965); The 61st Annual Academy Awards (1989); The 84th Annual Academy Awards (2012); The Apple War (1971); The Bachelor (1990); The Best Intentions (1991); The Best Intentions (1992); The Cinema of Carl Th. Dreyer (1982); The Command (2018); The Desert of the Tartars (1976); The Diary of Anne Frank (1967); The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007); The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011); The Emigrants (1971); The Exorcist (1973); The Fascination (1985); The Fear of God: 25 Years of 'The Exorcist' (1998); The Final Inquiry (2006); The First, the Last (2016); The Flight of the Eagle (1982); The Future According to Steven Spielberg: An Interactive Guide to 'Minority Report' (2010); The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965); The Kremlin Letter (1970); The Last Norwegian Troll (2010); The Last Place on Earth (1985); The Letters (2014); The Linkletter Show (1966); The Magician (1958); The Merv Griffin Show (1974); The Mike Douglas Show (1977); The Minister of Uddarbo (1957); The New Land (1972); The Night Visitor (1971); The Ox (1991); The Passion of Anna (1969); The Pat Boone Show (1966); The Princess and the Pauper (1997); The Quiller Memorandum (1966); The Reward (1965); The Second Victory (1987); The Seventh Seal (1957); The Simpsons (2014); The Soldier's Tale (1984); The Swedish Mistress (1962); The Touch (1971); The Touch (1992); The Tudors (2009); The Ultimate Warrior (1975); The Virgin Spring (1960); The Will (1978); The Wolfman (2010); The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1993); Three Days of the Condor (1975); Through a Glass Darkly (1961); Time Is Money (1994); Tria33 (2016); Trompe l'oeil (1975); Truck Stop (1996); Until the End of the World (1991); Up All Night (1994); Up Close with Carrie Keagan (2007); Ved vejen (1988); Venetian Lies (1979); Victory / aka Escape to Victory (1981); Voyage of the Damned (1976); Warst Du Axel Corti? (2003); What Dreams May Come (1998); Wild Strawberries (1957); Winter Light (1963); Wo ist Fred? (2006).

On this day in movie history - Shutter Island (2010)

Shutter Island

directed by Martin Scorsese,

written by Laeta Kalogridis,

based on the novel by Dennis Lehane,

was released in the United States on February 19, 2010.

Cast:

Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Max von Sydow, Michelle Williams, Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson, Jackie Earle Haley, John Carroll Lynch, Ted Levine, Elias Koteas, Ruby Jerins, Robin Bartlett, Christopher Denham.