Tag: Claes Bang

Bonjour Tristesse | Review

Lifestyles of the Rich, Conflicted & Coddled: Dull Vacation in the South of France for Debut Ah, summer in the south of France. The cerulean...

Mother’s Baby | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Look What’s Happened to Rosemary’s Baby: Moder Repeats Motherhood Horrors A palpable, instinctual fascination with the potential horrors of pregnancy are exactly why neonatal dread...

The Northman | Review

Whisper Tales of Gore: Eggers Burns Trail to Valhalla in Viking Epic In keeping with the time-hoary notion of revenge being a dish best served...

2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Antonia Campbell-Hughes’ It Is In Us All

An actress with almost two decades under her belt, Antonia Campbell-Hughes slowly got her feet wet directing  some smaller short films and then got...

Locked Down [Video Review]

Tell-Tale Hearts: Liman Conjures a Time Capsule in Curious Cinematic Exercise As cinematic content continues to unspool through premiering projects completed prior to the start...

The Bay of Silence | Review

The Hand That Mocks the Cradle: van der Oest Overwhelms in Overstuffed Trauma Drama Some inherent problems with adapting complex or labyrinthine novels into film...

The Burnt Orange Heresy | Review

Pleasure to Burn: Capotondi Returns with Entertaining Neo-Noir Murder really can be turned into art, it seems, in Giuseppe Capotondi’s return to narrative filmmaking with...

Interview: Ruben Östlund (The Square)

This weekend, Magnolia Pictures release Swedish auteur Ruben Östlund's latest film, The Square. Winner of this year's Palme d'Or at the 70th Cannes Film...

The Square | 2017 Cannes Film Festival Review

Attenberg Follies: Ostlund’s Meta Commentary Skewers Social Contrivances Adding to a body of work which comically and obsessively examines the underbelly of human desires and...

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In the Forests of the Night: Gray Frames Fearful...

TheyDream | Review

Frames That Mend: Caballero Unevenly Probes Puerto Rican Family...

The Devils (1971) | Review

Sympathy for The Devils: The Suppression of Ken Russell’s...

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.