Fools
Poland’s Tomasz Wasilewski should be ready with his fourth feature Fools in 2021, a Polish-German-Romanian co-production produced by Ewa Puszczyńska and Ada Solomon. Dorota...
Fugue
Polish director Agnieszka Smoczynska became an instant breakout success with her debut The Lure (read review), a 1980s set horror musical about two sister sirens...
Certain Women: Wasilewski Explores Enlightenment and Despair
It was 1990, and the climate was changing. Or so begins Polish director Tomas Wasilewski’s third feature, United...
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.