Nicholas Bell

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Los Angeles based Nicholas Bell is IONCINEMA.com's Chief Film Critic and covers film festivals such as Sundance, Berlin, Cannes and TIFF. He is part of the critic groups on Rotten Tomatoes, The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), FIPRESCI, the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) and GALECA. His top 3 for 2023: The Beast (Bonello) Poor Things (Lanthimos), Master Gardener (Schrader). He was a jury member at the 2019 Cleveland International Film Festival.

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Tuesday Blus: The Witches, The Aviator and Bigas Lunas’ Jamon, Jamon

This week’s edition of Tuesday Blus includes the following titles: Jamon, Jamon (1992) Film Review: ★★★½/☆☆☆☆☆ Disc Review: ★★★/☆☆☆☆☆ After rising to acclaim through the late 1970s and...

Criterion Collection: Kameradschaft | Blu-ray Review

A progressive call to unity between the historically at odds French and German cultures, G.W. Pabst’s 1931 classic Comradeship (Kameradschaft) which concerns a team...

Criterion Collection: Westfront 1918 | Blu-ray Review

Criterion taps into the first wave of sound films from iconic German director G.W. Pabst which solidified the auteur’s reputation (and successful crossover from...

Tuesday Blus: Intermezzo, Blade Runner: 2049 & Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House

This week’s edition of Tuesday Blus includes the following titles: Intermezzo (1939) Film Review: ★★★/☆☆☆☆☆ Disc Review: ★★★/☆☆☆☆☆ It’s a tale as old as time, more vintage than...

Private Life | 2018 Sundance Film Festival Review

She’s Not Having a Baby: Jenkins Returns with Freewheeling Fertility Melodrama American indie director Tamara Jenkins returns with her first directorial effort since 2007’s Oscar...

Breaking

Paper Tiger | Review

In the Forests of the Night: Gray Frames Fearful...

TheyDream | Review

Frames That Mend: Caballero Unevenly Probes Puerto Rican Family...

The Devils (1971) | Review

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

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

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.
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