Tag: Hot Docs

The Islands and The Whales | 2016 Hot Docs Festival Review

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Day's Sophomore Effort Investigates Cultural & Environmental Repercussions Very much a microcosm comparable to the cultural inertia invested in the...

Contemporary Color | 2016 Hot Docs Review

On An Ultralight Beam: Ross Brothers Turn David Byrne's Color Guard Dream Into Vivid Sensorial Masterpiece Back in January of 2015, former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne...

Best of Fest – Docs: Laura Poitras Racks Up Noms For Citizenfour, IDFA Announces Awards (November 2014)

With year end lists already flooding the interwebs a full month before the actual year’s end, its hard to ignore the fact that awards...

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Paper Tiger | Review

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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.