Jordan M. Smith

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Stray Dog | Review

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Jordan M. Smith - July 5, 2015

Still Learning New Tricks: Hall Heals Via Empathy & Remembrance Much less cinematically invigorating than Akira Kurosawa's noir of the same name and miles away from Tsai...

The Happiness of the Katakuris | Blu-ray Review

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Jordan M. Smith - June 30, 2015

Takashi Miike's The Happiness of the Katakuris begins with a woman probing a freshly delivered bowl of soup only to fish out a miniature angel/gargoyle/teletubby? whose...

Video Interview: Mia Hansen-Løve – Eden

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Jordan M. Smith - June 17, 2015

The morning after the world premiere of Eden at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival, I arrived at a bar not yet open, located just...

Eden | Review

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Jordan M. Smith - June 17, 2015

In The Garden Of Garage: Hansen-Løve Recounts Brother's Coming of Age During the Rise of House Music Thanks to her brother Sven’s involvement in the popularization...

The Wanted 18 | Review

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Jordan M. Smith - June 17, 2015

Got Milk? Cowan & Shomali See The Glass Half Full, Celebrating Community Action In Beit Sahour With Stop-Motion Paul Cowan and Amer Shomali’s partially animated docu-drama,...

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The Devils (1971) | Review

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Sympathy for The Devils: The Suppression of Ken Russell’s...

Ken Russell’s The Devils – 2010 Fantasia International Film Festival

Film Festivals November 8, 2026 0

Iconic director Ken Russell was in town to receive a lifetime achievement award from Fantasia for his 50-plus years in the business, a career that has spawned many genre classics including Altered States, Gothic, and The Lair of the White Worm. But it was the little-seen and hard to find The Devils from 1971 that proved to be Russell's most controversial work, and Fantasia managed to snag a copy to be screened on Russell's big night. In the video, Russell discusses the true story behind the film and receives his award with the grace befitting one of the great filmmakers of all time.