The Exorcist Dance Numbers

ThePhan: Also, Sam, in case you did not see this: http://unpublishedforareason.blogspot....12/06/blind-spots-2012-band-wagon.html
Sam: TP: Check out Silk Stockings sometime. It's essentially a musical version of Ninotchka (no need to have seen that) with Astaire and Charisse. It's also interesting in that it's roughly the last classic MGM musical, and although they knock the dance numbers out of the park, you can sense that the filmmakers were aware the genre was fading out and tried a little harder to stay relevant instead of merely exulting in the format.
Sam: So it's a curiosity AND a great example of the genre in one.
ThePhan: Oh, right! I remember you mentioning that when I said I was seeing The Band Wagon. I shall add it to my list.
ThePhan: I think I'm going to watch The Exorcist next for the blind spots list.
Sam: I didn't really like the dance numbers in that..
Sam: Ok, there's some impressively freaky choreography in it, but no joy.
ThePhan: Hey, dance isn't always all about joy.
Sam: There should be a joy of craft and process, even if it's absent in the subject.
Sam: Also, that movie forgets the lessons Fred Astaire's movies taught about cinematography. You should do long takes of the whole of the dancers' bodies. But The Exorcist is so fixated on Linda Blair's (puking) head, you seldom if ever see what her feet are doing.
Sam: It's tragic that some of filmdom's best tap dancing sequences were only captured from the neck up.
Sam: ...I got nowhere else to go with this.