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Eddington | Review

No Country for Smart Men: Aster Satirizes the Obvious It would seem all is actually for naught in Eddington, Ari Aster’s sprawling, meandering fourth and...

Face the Music: Saoirse Ronan & Austin Butler Join Sean Durkin’s “Deep Cuts”

The A24 folks are getting into the Sean Durkin business once again. After backing his third feature film in The Iron Claw, they've also...

The Dead Don’t Die | Review

Fear the Mocking Dead: Jarmusch’s Zombie Sketch is DOA “The world is perfect. Appreciate the details,” says deliveryman RZA (in one of the film’s many...

2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 1 – Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die

A long and rich history with the festival since 1984's Stranger Than Paradise premiered on the Croisette and won the Caméra d'or 1984, Jim...

Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #4. Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die

Shifting sideways from the extensionalism lethargy found vampires in goth tweaked Only Lovers Left Alive to possibly reanimated corpses that haven't said their last word...

2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kevin Smith’s Yoga Hosers

Having launched into a life of filmmaking with a seminal Sundance more than two decades back with Clerks (1994), while Park City is sacred...

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The Devils (1971) | Review

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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.