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Rifkin’s Festival | Review

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In the Premieres section you'll usually find a mix of studio unveilings and high profile acquisitions titles and in the almost equal split between...

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After getting a taste for what the film world has to offer when his thesis film Patrol premiered at the 2010 edition of the...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #72. Rifkin’s Festival – Woody Allen

Rifkin’s Festival Now that Woody Allen has been officially exiled, he’s been adopted in the realm of world cinema with his latest feature, Rifkin’s Festival,...

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With 2011's A Bag of Hammers and his 2014's short "Dog Food" both preeming at Austin, you can bet that the SXSW programmers have Brian...

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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.