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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....

Gully [Video Review]

Goodbye South Central, Goodbye: Elderkin Grapples with Uneven Urban Soap Opera If Donald Goines had written YA literature, it might have looked something like Gully,...

The Courier [Video Review]

You’ve Got Mail: Cooke Leaves the Cold War on Ice in Sluggish Spy Thriller Director Dominic Cooke, revered for his stage work before commencing on...

Outside the Wire [Video Review]

Android Schadenfreude: Hafstrom Soldiers to the Future with Familiar Agenda Anthony Mackie is the computer who wore combat gear in Outside the Wire, the latest...

Military Wives | Review

They Could Go on Singing: Cattaneo Conducts Choir in Formulaic Melodrama Director Peter Cattaneo resurfaces for his first narrative feature in over a decade...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #105. Ironbark – Dominic Cooke

Ironbark For his sophomore film, the UK’s Dominic Cooke tackles the Cold War in Ironbark, produced by Adam Ackland, Rory Aitken, Ben Browning, and Ben...

2020 Sundance Film Festival: Miranda July, Julie Taymor, Dee Rees & Sean Durkin in the Premieres Section

The most acquisitions and distributor launch-pad friendly section of the festival, the Premieres category had some big ticket items in Nisha Ganatra's Late Night,...

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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.