Clark Art Screens 'The Exorcist'

08:00AM / Thursday, January 09, 2025Print Story | Email Story

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Thursday, Jan. 16, the Clark Art Institute screens the latest installment in its Hollywood Auteurs film series, "The Exorcist" (1973), at 6 pm.

Presented in partnership with Images Cinema, this series captures the explosion of creativity, critical acclaim, and box office success that Hollywood directors found after the fall of the studio system. This film is shown in the Manton Research Center auditorium.

According to a press release:

One of the most frightening films ever made and banned from video release in Britain for over ten years, "The Exorcist" is the story of an atheist actress who turns to two Jesuit priests to free her twelve-year-old daughter from what she has come to believe is demonic possession. Written by a devout Catholic intellectual, William Blatty, it is an unsettling combination of honest belief in evil and film as storytelling. Director William Friedkin took strident, dictatorial measures to maintain a pervasive feeling of fear on the set, at times refrigerating it to just above freezing. (Run time: 2 hours, 2 minutes)

Free. Accessible seats available; for information, call 413 458 0524.

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Williamstown Child Dies in Collision with Motor Vehicle

iBerkshires.com10:21AM / Saturday, August 08, 2026

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — A 7-year-old Williamstown child died Friday evening after a collision with a motor vehicle at the intersection of Main Street and Buxton Hill Road, the Berkshire County District Attorney's Office announced on Saturday morning.

Neither the child nor the driver were identified in the release. The child, Max Rothschild of Williamstown, was formally identified by the DA's Office on Monday. The driver has not been identified and the incident remains under investigation.

The vehicle was traveling east on Main Street, and the child, riding a bicycle, was headed down Buxton Hill Road toward Main, according to the DA.

"Preliminary information suggests that the bicyclist unintentionally entered Main Street where they were struck by the involved vehicle," the news release read.

The child died at the scene of the accident, the news release said.

"The driver of the vehicle was not impaired by alcohol or drugs," the news release said. "The bicyclist was wearing a helmet at the time of the collision."

The investigation remains active.

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