Nicholas Bell

4647 POSTS
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.

Exclusive articles:

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #52. Gustave Kervern & Benoît Delépine’s I Feel Good

I Feel Good Underrated directing duo Gustave Kervern and Benoît Delépine bring their peculiar sensibilities to their eighth collaboration together with I Feel Good, which...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #53. Radu Muntean’s Alice T.

Alice T. Romanian auteur Radu Muntean tackles teenage angst in his sixth feature, Alice T., which explores the strained relationship of the titular character and...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #54. Eva Sørhaug’s Sunny

Sunny Norway’s Eva Sørhaug switches things up a bit with her third feature, Sunny, her English language debut which is set to star Sharon Stone...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #55. Jesper Ganslandt’s Jimmie

Jimmie It’s now been six years since Swedish director Jesper Ganslandt’s familial reunion drama Blondie (2012), where it appeared in Venice Days. It was a...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #56. Agnieszka Smoczynska’s Fugue

Fugue Polish director Agnieszka Smoczynska became an instant breakout success with her debut The Lure (read review),  a 1980s set horror musical about two sister sirens...

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.
spot_imgspot_img