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: Arturo Ripstein’s Time to Die, John Trengove’s The Wound, Etc.

This week’s edition of Tuesday Blus includes the following titles: The Wound (2017) – Kino Lorber / Maigret Sets a Trap (1958) – Kino Lorber...

The Disaster Artist | Review

A Room of One’s Own: Franco’s Sincere Paean to the Art of Failed Art The notion “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery,” has assumed...

Wonder Wheel | Review #2

The Wheel of Their Discontent: Allen Stages Crumbling Marital Drama in the Dog Days of Coney Island As impeccably administered as it is at times...

The Shape of Water | Review

Creature from the Red Lagoon: Del Toro Gets Sentimental in Cold War Monster Drama Monsters return as metaphors in Guillermo Del Toro’s latest, The Shape...

This World, Then the Fireworks (1997) | Blu-ray Review

Had American culture not been subjected to the neutering forces of the Catholic Legion of Decency and the Hollywood Hays Code (enforced stridently from...

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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