Tag: Art College 1994

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #97. Liu Jian’s Art College 1994

A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man Identified as the film that was pulled from the Directors' Fortnight less than a week before...

2022 Venice Film Festival: 70 Predictions (Part I) Iñárritu, Dominik, Zlotowski & Escalante

This week we throw ourselves into predicting the world premiere options for both the Venice and Toronto International Film Festivals. We begin by looking...

2022 Cannes Film Festival: Eight Possible 11th Hour Film Options

Critics' Week made their line-up public yesterday. Directors' Fortnight topper Paolo Moretti mentioned that there is one title from Asia that they are still...

2022 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Directors’ Fortnight

Last month we learned that the upcoming 2022 edition of Directors' Fortnight (aka Quinzaine) taking place between May 18th to the 27th will be...

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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.