Tag: Focus Features

Autumn in New York: Hittman’s Never Rarely Sometimes Always Includes Théodore Pellerin & Sharon Van Etten

True to her previous pair of films and casting process, Eliza Hittman has once again unearthed first time acting talents for her third feature, Never...

The Wolf of Mean Streets; Focus Features Taps Justin Lin for Times Square

The Universal folks are keeping their enemies close and their family members in-house. Justin Lin, who has been working with asphalt skidmarks (Fast &...

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AZT & Sympathy: Vallee’s Drama Banks on Unforgettable Performances Cinematic portrayals of the onset of the AIDS crises have always been a bit nipped and...

Stop Motion; Jesse Atlas to Adapt Looper-like Record/Play for Focus

This than 24 hours after news broke that James Schamus got the boot, we got a glimpse at the kind of material that might...

Andrew Dosunmu to Bring out the Funk; Helmer Boards Focus Features’ Fela Kuti Biopic

It was supposed to be the possible project that 12 Years a Slave filmmaker Steve McQueen would possibly direct after his stunning debut (Hunger),...

Should He Stay or Should He Go?; Focus Features Sets George Clooney to Direct “The Yankee Commandante”

Didn't get enough of Soderbergh's Che? Wanted more jungle? Focus Features is looking to grab the rights to 30 plus page account in a...

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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.