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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Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #38. Erick Zonca’s Fleuve noir

Fleuve noir French director Erick Zonca scored his most critically acclaimed hit with his 1998 debut The Dreamlife of Angels, which competed in the Cannes...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #39. Nadav Lapid’s Synonymes

Synonymes Israeli director Nadav Lapid, who broke out with 2011 debut Policeman at the Locarno Film Festival (where it won the Special Jury Prize) should...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #40. Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir: Part I

The Souvenir: Part 1 British director Joanna Hogg has remained one of the UK’s most underrated auteur assets since breaking out of television in the...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #41. Alice Winocour’s Proxima

Proxima Cesar Award Winning writer-director Alice Winocour (Best Screenplay for 2015’s Mustang, shared with Deniz Gamze Erguven) landed a Special Screening at Cannes for her...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #42. Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote There are few doomed cinematic projects sharing the trajectory of Terry Gilliam’s troubled The Man Who Killed Don Quixote,...

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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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