Tag: Alicia Van Couvering

The Silent Twins | Review

Sistas With(out) Voices: Smoczynska Revisits Case Study of Antisocial Twins Poland’s Agnieszka Smoczynska makes her English language debut with third feature The Silent Twins, based...

2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s Silent Twins

Just two feature films in (2015's The Lure and 2018's Fugue), Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Smoczyńska has built a rabid fan base - us included....

Video: Hannah Fidell’s The Long Dumb Road | 2018 Sundance Film Festival

The road trip movie is probably the most tired sub-genre after the coming of age film, and yet with a fresh coat of paint...

2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Hannah Fidell’s The Long Dumb Road

Having debuted A Teacher (review) at Sundance back in 2013, she saw her next feature 6 Years (review) premiere at SXSW in 2015. Teaming with the...

2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Antonio Campos’ Christine

If Cannes' Thierry Frémaux doesn't snag it away first, we might be chalking this unsettling piece of cinema as yet another Park City homecoming...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #56. Joe Swanberg’s Drinking Buddies

Drinking Buddies Director/Writer: Joe Swanberg Producer(s): Swanberg, Burn Later Productions’ Paul Bernon and Sam Slater, Andrea Roa (Sunlight Jr.) and Alicia Van Couvering (Nobody Walks) U.S. Distributor:...

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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.