Tag: Greg Shapiro

A House of Dynamite | Review

On a Nuclear Day You Can See Forever: Bigelow’s Living in a Powder-keg, Giving Off Sparks With the doomsday clock adjusted to eighty-nine seconds to...

Voyagers [Video Review]

It’s the Journey, Not the Destination: Burger Hurtles into Space for Humanity’s Last Stand Perhaps it’s not what Emerson envisioned, but the sentiment remains the...

The Secrets We Keep | Review

The Forgiveness of Blood: Rapace Shines in a Loose Regurgitation of Dorfman Play The strangest aspect of The Secrets We Keep, the third feature from...

2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Drake Doremus’ Zoe

We've now arrived to our 75 prediction destination with this final item. A Sundance personality who over time, has developed his own cult following in...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #48. James Gray’s Nightingale

Nightingale Director: James Gray Writer(s): Gray and Ric Menello Producer(s): Gray, Anthony Katagas, Greg Shapiro, Christopher Woodrow U.S. Distributor: The Weinstein Co. Cast: Jeremy Renner, Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix,...

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Paper Tiger | Review

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

TheyDream | Review

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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.