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: #71. Ciro Guerra & Cristina Gallegos’ Birds of Passage

Birds of Passage Columbian director Ciro Guerra unveiled one of 2015’s best titles with his third film Embrace of the Serpent (read review), an Amazonian, post-colonial...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #72. Kim Jee-woon’s In-rang: The Wolf Brigade

In-rang: The Wolf Brigade South Korean auteur Kim Jee-woon has been circling and developing a live-action adaptation of Mamuro Oshii’s (Ghost in the Shell) anime...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #73. Radu Jude’s Is This What You Were Born For?

Is This What You Were Born For? Romanian auteur Radu Jude arrived after the established first wave of New Romanian Cinema masters, rising up out...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #74. AgustĂ­ Villaronga’s Born a King

Born a King Spanish auteur Agusti Villaronga has maintained a prolific resume over the past decade, but one would hardly know it stateside as his...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #75. Peter Greenaway’s Walking to Paris

Walking to Paris It seems 2018 will finally see the release of Peter Greenaway’s next film, Walking to Paris, an international co-production about Romanian sculptor...

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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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