Tag: Bart Freundlich

After the Wedding | Review

Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Freundlich Updates Danish Drama with Gender Bending Twist Just as Danish director Susanne Bier masters the art of cult filmmaker with...

Top 50 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2019: A Prelude

At the beginning of the year, we gave our readers an overview of the most anticipated foreign films for the new year (Top 150...

2019 Sundance Film Festival: Berlinger, Estes, Clermont-Tonnerre, Scott Z. Burns & Wnendt in Premieres section

Last year's Premieres section gave us offerings such as the Zellner Bros.' Damsel, Debra Granik's Leave No Trace and Elizabeth Chomko's What They Had....

2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #5. Bart Freundlich – After the Wedding

Bart Freundlich's seventh feature film in After the Wedding - is a new (feminist?) take on Susanne Bier's Efter brylluppet and it might allow him...

Through the Looking Glass – the Top 50 American Indie Films of 2019: Picks #50 to #11

It's never too early to look into the distant future. Last week, our Nicholas Bell took a look past the 2018 calendar with Through the...

Wolves | Review

Wolf Like Me: Freundlich Returns to Familial Angst with Latest Drama Director  unveils his first theatrical release in seven years with Wolves (which premiered at...

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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.